| Understanding the concept of professionalisation in sport management research M Dowling, J Edwards, M Washington Sport management review 17 (4), 520-529, 2014 | 213 | 2014 |
| Governance in sport: A scoping review M Dowling, B Leopkey, L Smith Journal of sport management 32 (5), 438-451, 2018 | 165 | 2018 |
| Taking advantage of the London 2012 Olympic Games: Corporate social responsibility through sport partnerships M Dowling, L Robinson, M Washington European Sport Management Quarterly 13 (3), 269-292, 2013 | 85 | 2013 |
| The institutional work of Own the Podium in developing high-performance sport in Canada M Dowling, J Smith Journal of sport management 30 (4), 396-410, 2016 | 61 | 2016 |
| Institutional theory in sport: A scoping review J Robertson, M Dowling, M Washington, B Leopkey, DL Ellis, L Smith Journal of Sport Management 36 (5), 459-472, 2021 | 51 | 2021 |
| Challenging the new orthodoxy: A critique of SPLISS and variable-oriented approaches to comparing sporting nations I Henry, M Dowling, LM Ko, P Brown European sport management quarterly 20 (4), 520-536, 2020 | 47 | 2020 |
| Deconstructing comparative sport policy analysis: assumptions, challenges, and new directions M Dowling, P Brown, D Legg, J Grix International journal of sport policy and politics 10 (4), 687-704, 2018 | 43 | 2018 |
| Living with imperfect comparisons: The challenges and limitations of comparative paralympic sport policy research M Dowling, P Brown, D Legg, A Beacom Sport management review 21 (2), 101-113, 2018 | 39 | 2018 |
| An analysis of governance failure and power dynamics in international sport: the Russian doping scandal S Harris, M Dowling, B Houlihan International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics 13 (3), 359-378, 2021 | 27 | 2021 |
| Epistemic communities and knowledge-based professional networks in sport policy and governance: A case study of the Canadian sport for life leadership team M Dowling, M Washington Journal of Sport Management 31 (2), 133-147, 2017 | 25 | 2017 |
| Problematizing the adoption and implementation of athlete development ‘models’: a Foucauldian-inspired analysis of the long-term athlete development framework M Dowling, J Mills, A Stodter Journal of Athlete Development and Experience 2 (3), 3, 2020 | 20 | 2020 |
| Barriers and facilitators of physical activity in children of a South Asian ethnicity L Smith, GF López Sánchez, A Díaz Suárez, B Stubbs, M Dowling, ... Sustainability 10 (3), 761, 2018 | 20 | 2018 |
| Exploring sport management as an academic profession: A critical review of occupational theory M Dowling Journal of Global Sport Management 3 (4), 321-338, 2018 | 19 | 2018 |
| Scoping reviews and structured research synthesis in sport: Methods, protocol and lessons learnt M Dowling, B Leopkey, Y Inoue, BK Berg, L Smith International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics 12 (4), 765-774, 2020 | 18 | 2020 |
| The social construction of the long-term athlete development framework M Dowling, M Washington Journal of global sport management 6 (2), 143-169, 2021 | 17 | 2021 |
| The modernization of policy-making processes in national sport organizations: A case study of Athletics Canada M Dowling, J Denison, M Washington Journal of Amateur Sport 1 (2), 78-102, 2015 | 12 | 2015 |
| Community sport development: Managing change and measuring impact M Dowling, C Mackintosh, S Lee, J Allen Managing Sport and Leisure 26 (1-2), 1-6, 2021 | 11 | 2021 |
| When a ban is not a ban: Institutional work and the Russian doping scandal M Dowling, S Harris, M Washington Journal of Sport Management 36 (5), 433-445, 2021 | 9 | 2021 |
| The governing of governance: metagovernance and the creation of new organizational forms within Canadian sport M Dowling, M Washington Managing Sport and Leisure 22 (6), 458-471, 2017 | 9 | 2017 |
| Sport participation and Olympic legacies S Harris, M Dowling Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2021 | 8 | 2021 |
