Routledge Research in Sport Business and Management
Sport Officiating: Recruitment, Development, and Retention
1st Edition
By Lori Livingston, Susan L. Forbes, Nick Wattie, Ian Cunningham
June 13, 2022
Sport officials are tasked with maintaining order and adjudicating sport contests. Given their multifaceted role in enforcing rules, standardizing competitions, and keeping sport safe for all participants, they are a requisite part of the sport workforce. With ongoing reports of annual attrition ...
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 ...
Collective Bargaining in Professional Sports: Player Salaries, Free Agency, Team Ownership, League Organizational Structures and the Power of Commissioners
1st Edition
By Scott Bukstein
December 13, 2021
Collective Bargaining in Professional Sports provides a timely and practical overview of the impact and importance of the collective bargaining process in the business of professional sports in the United States. Focusing on the contemporary history of collective bargaining in the National ...
Global Sport Leadership
1st Edition
By Stephen Frawley, Laura Misener, Daniel Lock, Nico Schulenkorf
December 18, 2020
This book explores the global developments in sport leadership and practice.Drawing on the vast and ever-growing leadership literature, the book examines advances in leadership theory and practice in the context of the challenges faced by those working in global sport management positions. It ...
International Sport Marketing: Issues and Practice
1st Edition
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By Michel Desbordes, André Richelieu
December 18, 2020
How is sport marketing being transformed by new media and technology, by globalization and by the opening of new markets and sources of revenue? This book examines the most important trends and developments in contemporary sport marketing around the world, shining new light on the importance of ...
The Global Sport Economy: Contemporary Issues
1st Edition
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By Michel Desbordes, Pascal Aymar, Christopher Hautbois
December 18, 2020
This book examines the global sports ecosystem through three of its central pillars: Sport marketing, sports equipment manufacture and sales, and sport governance and organization. By focusing on these three themes, the book presents a nuanced and multi-faceted view of how the global sports economy...
Emerging Technologies in Sport: Implications for Sport Management
1st Edition
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By Cheryl Mallen
September 30, 2020
Advances in technology have always had a significant impact on sport. This book surveys the next generation of emerging technologies and considers how sport managers, governing bodies and officials can meet the challenges that they pose for sport competition, participation and events. It explores ...
International Sports Betting: Integrity, Deviance, Governance and Policy
1st Edition
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By Jean-Patrick Villeneuve, Martial Pasquier
June 30, 2020
Sports betting has become a truly global phenomenon, facilitated by new communication technologies. As a result, the development of deviances, from match-fixing to money laundering, has accelerated. This new reality has numerous implications, for both the regulation of this billion-dollar industry ...
Women in Sport Leadership: Research and practice for change
1st Edition
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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 ...