Jyri Backman

Senior Lecturer

Department of Marketing and Tourism Studies School of Business and Economics

jyri.backman@lnu.se

+46 470-76 78 05

+46 72-594 17 06

The School of Business and Economics at Linnaeus University are accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business; AACSB.

Publications

Carlsson, B., Backman, J. (2023). Juridification of fandom : dealing with spectators’expressions of ‘too much joy’ in Swedish football. Soccer & Society. 1-15.
Status: Epub ahead of print
Carlsson, B., Backman, J., Stark, T. (2022). The hegemonic impact of the NHL and the ‘Americanization’ of Swedish ice hockey and resistance : Rögle BK as ‘hockey culture’. Sport in Society : Cultures, Media, Politics, Commerce. 25 (6). 1125-1141.
Status: Published
Backman, J., Carlsson, B. (2020). Jokerit's move to KHL : an odd momentum in the commercialization of Nordic elite ice hockey. Sport in Society : Cultures, Media, Politics, Commerce. 23 (3). 505-522.
Status: Published
Backman, J., Carlsson, B. (2020). The progress of SHL Sport Ltd, in light of ‘Americanization’, juridification and hybridity. Sport in Society : Cultures, Media, Politics, Commerce. 23 (3). 452-468.
Status: Published
Carlsson, B., Backman, J. (2015). The blend of normative uncertainty and commercial immaturity in Swedish ice hockey. Sport in Society : Cultures, Media, Politics, Commerce. 18 (3). 290-312.
Status: Published

Backman, J., Bjärsholm, D. (2022). Venture Capital in Swedish Sport: The Swedish 51 %-rule – An Obstacle or Possibility?. Presented at: The EASM Conference 2022, The 30th European Sport Management Conference hosted September 5-8, in Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria.. 486-487.
Backman, J. (2019). Corporation In Swedish (Men's) Elite Ice Hockey - A Way Forward?. Presented at the 27th European Sport Management Conference (EASM): Connecting Sport Practice & Science, Seville, Spain, September 3-6, 2019.
Backman, J. (2018). New Times in Swedish and Finnish Elite Ice Hockey : Business Groups Instead of Non-profit Sport Clubs. EASM 2018 Abstracts. 425-426.
Backman, J. (2017). Elite Ice Hockey – A Pleasure Only in Major Cities? : a comparison of Swedish and Finnish Elite Ice Hockey Clubs Geographical Location 2015/2016. Presented at the Global Issues and New Ideas in Sport Management, 2nd International Conference of World Association for Sport Management, Kaunas, Lithuania, June 20–23, 2017.
Backman, J. (2017). Multi arenas in Swedish elite ice hockey : a tax challenge?. The 25th EASM Conference, 5–8 September 2017, Bern and Magglingen, Switzerland, Challenges and Developments of Sport Organisations, book of abstracts. 302-303.
Backman, J. (2016). The Finnish (and Nordic) ice hockey map is redrawn : Jokerit moves to KHL. .

Backman, J. (2017). KHL : en rysk ishockeybjörn reser sig ur den sovjetiska ishockeyns ruiner. Idrott, historia och samhälle : Svenska idrottshistoriska föreningens årsskrift. 2017. Svenska Idrottshistoriska Föreningen. 7-30.

Carlsson, B., Backman, J., Stark, T. (2020). Introduction : the progress of elite ice hockey beyond the NHL. Sport in Society : Cultures, Media, Politics, Commerce. 23 (3). 355-360.
Status: Published

Backman, J. (2021). Ishockeyns affärer : en jämförelse mellan svensk och finsk elitishockey. Vårt gemensamma innanhav : finskt och svenskt kring Östersjön. Göteborg och Helsingfors, Kungl. Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhället i Göteborg och Finska Vetenskaps-Societeten. 101-127.
Carlsson, B., Backman, J. (2021). Employing ´Sports Law´as a critical asset to grasp the concept(ions) of sport. Artikelsamling 2021 Idrottsjuridisk skriftserie Nr 26. Stockholm, Svensk IdrottsJuridisk Förening. 33-53.
Backman, J., Carlsson, B. (2019). SHL – en kluven hybrid av kommersiell ambition och normativ dualism. Styrning och samhällsengagemang inom svensk idrott. Stockholm, SISU Idrottsböcker. 104-135.
Backman, J. (2009). Fotbollens avtalsstabilitet – en teoretisk reflektion. Artikelsamling. 2009. Stockholm, SISU idrottsböcker. 19-32.