Sport and Entrepreneurship

ISBN-13: 9780367862626 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 186 str.

Dilwyn Porter; Wray Vamplew

Opis

Sport and Entrepreneurship combines perspectives derived from business history and sports history, focusing on the important but relatively unexplored relationship of entrepreneurship and sport.

Spis treści

Preface: Three Decades Later: Reflections on Historians, Entrepreneurs, and the Sport Industry Stephen Hardy 1. Entrepreneurship, Sport, and History: An Overview Dilwyn Porter and Wray Vamplew 2. Opportunistic, Parasitic, Strategic, Symbiotic: Entrepreneurship and the Business of Sport Dilwyn Porter 3. The Commodification of Sport: Exploring the Nature of the Sports Product Wray Vamplew 4. The Patricks’s Hockey Empire: Cultural Entrepreneurship and the Pacific Coast Hockey Association, 1911–1924 John Wong 5. Entrepreneurship in an Amateur World: The Gaelic Athletic Association in Ireland Mike Cronin 6. Sport and the New Culture of the ‘Second Golden Age’: Amsterdam’s Sporting Entrepreneurs in the 1880s and 1890s Nick Piercey 7. New Competitions and Contracts: Sports Entrepreneurs and Litigation from a Historical Perspective Steve Greenfield 8. Designing Diana: Female Sports Entrepreneurs and Equestrian Innovation Erica Munkwitz 9. Opportunities for all the Team: Entrepreneurship and the 1966 and 1994 Soccer World Cups Kevin D. Tennent and Alex G. Gillett 10. Social Change, Astro-Turfs, and Entrepreneurial Activities in the Context of German Non-Elite Football: The Example of Lower-Division Club BSV Bielstein Kristian Naglo