Sports management and facilities

This is the first book to address the link between culture and sport management.

The professionalisation of sports coaching has demanded higher standards of leadership in order to improve performance and effectiveness.

Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Sport Facility Operations Management goes beyond the basic theories of sport facility management to include relevant practical professional experiences connecting facilities, people, and technology.

Bringing together leading match-fixing researchers from different fields, this book offers new theoretical and applied perspectives on this persistent problem in sport and wider society.

This book takes an in-depth look at the economics and finance of professional team sports, with a strong focus on applied analysis and performance measurement, to enable students, researchers, and practitioners to develop their professional knowledge of contemporary sport business.

This book examines a range of contemporary issues related to the global delivery of sport management education.

This fourth edition of The Geography of Tourism and Recreation provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the interrelationship between tourism, leisure and recreation from geographical and social science perspectives.

Economists have entered into the realm of sports to provide what they believe to be more cogent explanations for sport-related behaviour and to suggest ways in which incentives can improve sports outcomes.

It is difficult to fully understand the role that sport plays in contemporary global society without understanding how and why governments, NGOs and other organizations formulate and implement policy relating to sport.

Women and girls are often excluded from organised sport or face challenges in accessing sport or developing within sport.

This is the first book to explore the full significance of sport fans and fandom from an international and interdisciplinary perspective, across different sports, communities and levels of engagement.

This book expands on the argument that spectator sports, despite their problems, have become a central function of American universities.

This book examines sport as an inclusive and developmental environment, exploring the conditions by which community sport initiatives can promote personal development, health and social cohesion, particularly for at-risk youth.

Based on a decade of research by two leading action sports scholars, this book maps the relationship between action sports and the Olympic Movement, from the inclusion of the first action sports to those featuring for the first time in the Tokyo Olympic Games and beyond.

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of the history, development and contemporary significance of sport in Asia.

This handbook takes an in-depth look at the transformative impact of social media on sport.

Horseracing, thoroughbred breeding and gambling on racing are global industries worth several hundred billion dollars.

What is, or what should be, the function of sport in a globalized, commercialized world?

How did the Olympics evolve into a multi-national phenomenon?

Despite many negative expectations of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Russia delivered one of the best World Cups in living memory.

The idea of a 'leisure society' was in its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s, when it was predicted that the pattern of falling working hours which had been experienced in Western societies in the first half of the twentieth century would continue indefinitely.

This is the first book in English to offer an overview of the development of the sport industry in Spain and Portugal, examining the social, economic, cultural, and political impact sport has had in this region and on world sport more broadly.

Lausanne, the Swiss city IOC (International Olympic Committee) President Juan Antonio Samaranch honored with the title "e;Olympic capital"e; in 1994, is now the administrative capital of world sport.

This book introduces the fundamentals of sport governance, assuming no prior knowledge on the part of the reader.

While globalisation has undoubtedly occurred in many social fields, in sport the importance of 'the nation' has remained.

Sports betting has become a truly global phenomenon, facilitated by new communication technologies.

All good managers working in sport need to have a clear understanding of the principles of finance and accounting.

The book explores the changing landscape of anti-doping investigations, which now largely centre on the collection of intelligence about doping through processes such as surveillance, interviews with witnesses and interrogation of athletes.

Encompassing sports, civics, and regional identity, this is a multifaceted narrative of launching a franchise from the ground up In 2021, Seattle released the Kraken.

This is the first book in English to offer an overview of the development of the sport industry in Spain and Portugal, examining the social, economic, cultural, and political impact sport has had in this region and on world sport more broadly.

From Major League Baseball to English soccer's Premier League, all successful contemporary professional sports leagues include a wide diversity of nationalities and ethnicities within their playing and coaching rosters.

Using an interdisciplinary approach, Sport, Education and Corporatisation offers an important critique of the intersection between sport organisations, commercial agendas and educational development.

This book provides the first detailed history of one of the most powerful international sport organisations, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since 2019 known as World Athletics.

The sport coaching profession has historically been and continues to be a White male-dominated occupation and this remains a global issue.

In a world of competing public policy priorities, economic challenges and political uncertainty, sports development organisations and initiatives need to adapt to survive.

Strategic Recreation Management is a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the fundamental principles, managerial techniques and practices in the public administration of recreational services.

The social, cultural and economic significance of sport has never been more evident than it is today.

Events can be synonymous with a particular place, helping shape and promote a location.

Ambush marketing is a strategy by which a company or organisation uses their marketing communications to associate themselves with an event without being an official sponsor or authorised partner or licensee.

Any sports marketing student or prospective sports marketer has to understand in detail genuine industry trends and be able to recognise solutions to real-world scenarios.

Sport Funding and Finance provides a complete introduction to the macro-level and micro-level aspects of sport finance.

Divided into nine parts, Leisure Marketing: a global perspective guides the reader through leisure and marketing concepts, the marketing mix, key issues in different sectors, topical issues (such as globalisation, marketing research and ethics, for example branding and environmental issues), and the future of leisure marketing.

This handbook analyzes the main issues in the field of hospitality marketing by focusing on past, present and future challenges and trends from a multidisciplinary global perspective.

Corporate Finance: The Basics is a concise introduction to the inner workings of finance at the company level.

This is the first book to focus on sport broadcasting as a core aspect of contemporary sport business and management.

An unvarnished look at the economic and political choices that reshaped contemporary Chicago-arguably for the worse.

This volume offers new insight into an important and largely under-examined area of marine leisure and tourism: scuba diving tourism.

Sport Management: The Basics is an engaging and accessible introduction to sport management which considers a range of contemporary philosophical, social, cultural and political matters as they impact on this growing field.

Wild animals form an integral component of the human leisure experience.