About Yuhei Inoue

Professor of Sport Management - Manchester Metropolitan University

Biography

Dr. Yuhei Inoue is a Professor of Sport Management in the Department of People & Performance at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School. His research focuses on the management of sport (e.g., sport organizations, events, programs) for positive social impacts, with particular emphasis on health and well-being outcomes. He conducts research in such settings as professional sport games, international/elite sport events, participatory and charity-affiliated sport events, professional sport organizations' socially responsible initiatives, community-based sport programs, and fitness clubs and services.

To date, Dr. Inoue has published over 55 articles in leading academic journals in sport management and related disciplines, including Journal of Sport Management, Sport Management Review, European Sport Management Quarterly, Tourism Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research, WIREs Climate Change, and Social Science & Medicine. In addition, his research has been funded by a range of national and international organizations and agencies, such as the IOC Olympic Studies Centre, Rugby Football League, GreaterSport (Manchester, UK), National Social Science Fund of China, and the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Dr. Inoue is an Associate Editor for Sport Management Review, a Section Editor for Routledge Resources Online: Sports Studies (Sport, Health and Wellbeing section), and an Editorial Board Member for Journal of Sport Management and Frontiers in Sports and Active Living. He also served as a co-guest editor for a special issue of Journal of Sport Management, entitled “Transformative Sport Service Research: Linking Sport Services with Well-being.” Given his contribution to the academic field of sport management, in 2016, he received Research Fellow status from the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM), the world's largest professional association for sport management.

Dr. Inoue obtained his Ph.D. in Business Administration from Temple University (USA), his M.A. in Sport and Exercise Management from The Ohio State University (USA), and his B.A. in Sociology from the University of Tsukuba (Japan). Before starting his doctoral study, he worked for NFL Japan, a subsidiary of the National Football League (NFL), and engaged in the promotion of the league and American football in Japan.

Education

May 2011 PhD in Business Administration, Temple University
August 2007 MA in Sport and Exercise Management, The Ohio State University
March 2005 BA in Sociology, University of Tsukuba

Academic Appointments

2023 – present Professor, Department of People and Performance, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom
2019 – 2023 Reader, Department of Economics, Policy and International Business, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom
2019 Visiting Professor, College of Business, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan (from June 2019 to July 2019)
2018 – 2019 Director of Graduate Studies, School of Kinesiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2018 – 2019 Associate Professor (tenured), School of Kinesiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2014 – 2018 Assistant Professor, School of Kinesiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2011 – 2014 Assistant Professor, Department of Health and Sport Science, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
2008 – 2011 Graduate Research Assistant, Sport Industry Research Center (SIRC), Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2010 Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2007 – 2008 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Sport Management, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

Honors and Awards