Kategoria BISAC: Sports & Recreation >> Business Aspects

This book focuses on (1) sports management, (2) sports economics and policy, and (3) sports humanities. The fact that sports humanities is a part of the sports management education program means that a person with extensive knowledge not only business-related comprehension but also acquaintance with art-related fields, such as the humanities and law will play a central role in sports management in the next generation.

The former two parts aim to provide a clear understanding of sports management and marketing, including the motivational and/or emotional components of fan behavior...

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 directions for improving gender equity. With contributions from leading international sport scholars and practitioners, it explores the opportunities and challenges women face while exercising leadership in sport organizations and evaluates leadership development practices.

While positional...

Provision of, and participation in, community-level sport has risen up the policy agenda in many countries, as a tool for tackling social exclusion and improving well-being. This book offers a comparative analysis of community sport policy in three countries: England, the US and Russia. It examines success factors and explanations for failure, and explores the social, cultural, political and economic contexts that shape community sport in those countries. Offering a new theoretical framework and rich empirical data, it covers key topics such as governance, implementation and evaluation....

This book explores the cultural, social, spatial, and political dynamics of skateboarding, drawing on contributions from leading international experts across a range of disciplines, such as sociology and philosophy of sport, architecture, anthropology, ecology, cultural studies, sociology, geography, and other fields. Part I critiques the ethos of skateboarding, its cultures and scenes, global trajectory, and the meanings it holds. Part II critically examines skateboarding in terms of space and sites, and Part III explores shifts that have occurred in skateboarding's history around...

The Owners chronicles all the owners of America's "big three" professional sports teams (NFL-Football, NBA-Basketball and MLB-Baseball) from 1920 to present. The focus is on who they are or were, how they made their fortune, and how their team performed under their ownership reign.

It is a book about yesterday's millionaires and today's billionaires dabbling in the exciting arena of professional sports-team-ownership. Which owners built dynasties? Who were the original founders? Why did teams relocate from city to city? Who got in trouble with the law? These are some of the...

In this book, Adonal Foyle presents seven matrices: Personal, Professional Sports, Family, Financial, Public, Charity, and Post-Career. The overall takeaway is that he wants athletes to appreciate what they already do on a day-to-day basis. By managing numerous elements of their lives, they are already doing the work of an Athlete CEO. It is the author’s hope that in reading this book athletes will recognize that they are indeed a small business.

Every Athlete CEO has a tremendous amount of cachet that he brings with him by virtue of being a professional in his particular...