Routledge Research in Sport Business and Management
Sport Management Education: Global Perspectives and Implications for Practice
1st Edition
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By Mike Rayner, Tom Webb
September 25, 2023
This book examines a range of contemporary issues related to the global delivery of sport management education. At a time of unprecedented change in Higher Education, the book looks closely at how sport management education can and should deliver positive outcomes in sport business and management ...
Sport and Brexit: Regulatory Challenges and Legacies
1st Edition
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By Jacob Kornbeck
September 25, 2023
This is the first book to investigate the significance of Brexit for sport, with a particular focus on the regulatory and legal challenges that it poses, and the economic and political stresses that are likely to follow in its wake. Written by a team of leading researchers working across ...
Stakeholder Analysis and Sport Organisations
1st Edition
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By Anna-Maria Strittmatter, Josef Fahlén, Barrie Houlihan
September 25, 2023
This book provides a critical examination of the origins and development of stakeholder theory within sport management research and expands the existing literature by providing insights on stakeholding in sport from various perspectives, such as governance, communication and marketing. Examining ...
Embedded Multi-Level Leadership in Elite Sport
1st Edition
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By Svein S. Andersen, Per Øystein Hansen, Barrie Houlihan
May 31, 2023
This book represents an alternative perspective on international elite sport systems. It focusses on the embedded multi-level nature of leadership, and the scope that this might give for degrees of leadership autonomy and discretion. The chapters show how mechanisms of leadership on different ...
Good Governance in Sport: Critical Reflections
1st Edition
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By Arnout Geeraert, Frank van Eekeren
May 31, 2023
This book fills an important gap in the sport governance literature by engaging in critical reflection on the concept of ‘good governance’. It examines the theoretical perspectives that lead to different conceptualisations of governance and, therefore, to different standards for institutional ...
EU Antitrust Law and Sport Governance: The Next Frontier?
1st Edition
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By Jacob Kornbeck
December 23, 2022
This is the first book to examine the significance of European Union antitrust law for the future of sport in Europe. Drawing on multi-disciplinary perspectives from law, economics, sport management and politics, and including case studies about the European Super League (ESL) and the ...
Sport and the Pandemic: Perspectives on Covid-19's Impact on the Sport Industry
1st Edition
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By Paul M. Pedersen, Brody J. Ruihley, Bo Li
May 06, 2022
This book takes a close look at how the sport industry has been impacted by the global Coronavirus pandemic, as entire seasons have been cut short, events have been cancelled, athletes have been infected, and sport studies programs have moved online. Crucially, the book also asks how the industry ...
Sport and Environmental Sustainability: Research and Strategic Management
1st Edition
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By Greg Dingle, Cheryl Mallen
April 29, 2022
Drawing on recent work in sport studies, business and management, health, science, and law, this book offers a critical examination of the latest published research on sport and environmental sustainability. It examines how strategic management, policy and education influence the relationship ...
Women in Sport Leadership: Research and practice for change
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By Laura J. Burton, Sarah Leberman
January 31, 2019
Although women and girls participate in sport in greater numbers than ever before, research shows there has been no significant increase in women leading sport organizations. This book takes an international, evidence-based perspective in examining women in sport leadership and offers future ...
Elite Youth Sport Policy and Management: A comparative analysis
1st Edition
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By Elsa Kristiansen, Milena Parent, Barrie Houlihan
April 30, 2018
Elite youth sport competitions have increased significantly in number in recent years, with the Youth Olympic Games representing the high point of this phenomenon. This book examines the global context within which elite youth sport has emerged and continues to grow. It explores elite youth sport ...
Managing Drugs in Sport
1st Edition
By Jason Mazanov
March 26, 2018
As recent high-profile drugs scandals have demonstrated, sport organisations rarely have a coherent, meaningful, long-term management strategy regarding drug use and abuse. Typically, sport managers hope drug problems never happen and engage in damage control when they do. This important new book ...
Sports Agents and Labour Markets: Evidence from World Football
1st Edition
By Giambattista Rossi, Anna Semens, Jean Francois Brocard
December 04, 2017
The sports agent has become a highly significant figure in contemporary sport business. The role of the agent is essential to our understanding of labour markets and labour relations in an increasingly globalised sports industry. Drawing on extensive empirical research into football around the ...