Sports management and facilities

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

Considering the celebrity-like status of the professional football manager, surprisingly little is known about their role.

Considering the celebrity-like status of the professional football manager, surprisingly little is known about their role.

Olympic Stadia provides a comprehensive account of the development of stadia including but not limited to: developments in running tracks, the introduction of lighting, improvements in spectator viewing standards and the introduction of roofs.

Olympic Stadia provides a comprehensive account of the development of stadia including but not limited to: developments in running tracks, the introduction of lighting, improvements in spectator viewing standards and the introduction of roofs.

Sport volunteering is becoming an increasingly popular motive for international travel.

Sport volunteering is becoming an increasingly popular motive for international travel.

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

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

Sport and physical activity are now regularly used to promote social and economic development, peacebuilding and conflict resolution, on an international scale.

Football is undoubtedly the sport with the largest following in the world, attracting billions of fans across the globe.

Football is undoubtedly the sport with the largest following in the world, attracting billions of fans across the globe.

Sport and physical activity are now regularly used to promote social and economic development, peacebuilding and conflict resolution, on an international scale.

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.

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.

This is a multi-disciplinary contribution to the burgeoning literature on and around mega-events in general and sports mega-events in particular.

This is a multi-disciplinary contribution to the burgeoning literature on and around mega-events in general and sports mega-events in particular.

This innovative and timely volume of essays critically interrogates the shared histories between sport and a variety of leisure, entertainment and cultural pursuits.

This innovative and timely volume of essays critically interrogates the shared histories between sport and a variety of leisure, entertainment and cultural pursuits.

Water control and management have been fundamental to the building of human civilisation.

Water control and management have been fundamental to the building of human civilisation.

This book features international authors discussing the role of entrepreneurship and innovation in the sports context.

This book features international authors discussing the role of entrepreneurship and innovation in the sports context.

While societies shape the way their cities look and are represented, urban images, in turn, nurture and structure social relations in multiple ways.

While societies shape the way their cities look and are represented, urban images, in turn, nurture and structure social relations in multiple ways.

The international nature of the sport industry presents many management challenges and opportunities for sport organisations.

The international nature of the sport industry presents many management challenges and opportunities for sport organisations.

This book introduces the fundamental principles of accessible and inclusive sport venue management, with a focus on people with disability.

The New York Times bestseller: "e;A useful, entertaining look back at how the Pirates turned a small market, longtime loser into a playoff team.

This book uses the concept of value creation to show how we can understand the success and failure of sports organizations.

This book uses the concept of value creation to show how we can understand the success and failure of sports organizations.

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

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

Analyzing football as a cultural practice, this book investigates the connection between the sport and its built environment.

Analyzing football as a cultural practice, this book investigates the connection between the sport and its built environment.

The growing complexity and importance of sports and event marketing has pushed scholars and practitioners to apply sophisticated marketing thinking and applications to these topics.

The growing complexity and importance of sports and event marketing has pushed scholars and practitioners to apply sophisticated marketing thinking and applications to these topics.

This book offers a rare chance to understand how sport and architecture come together to create an outstanding building type - a symbol of our times.

This book offers a rare chance to understand how sport and architecture come together to create an outstanding building type - a symbol of our times.

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.

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.

The maritime environment includes both the water resource of the terrestrial coast and estuarine and coastal inshore waters.

The maritime environment includes both the water resource of the terrestrial coast and estuarine and coastal inshore waters.

Governance has become a hugely important issue within sport.

Governance has become a hugely important issue within sport.

This book aims to provide an extensive overview of how football is organized and managed on a European level and in individual European countries, and to account for the evolution of the national, international and transnational management of football over the last decades.

This book aims to provide an extensive overview of how football is organized and managed on a European level and in individual European countries, and to account for the evolution of the national, international and transnational management of football over the last decades.

Contemporary society is complex; governed and administered by a range of contradictory policies, practices and techniques.

Contemporary society is complex; governed and administered by a range of contradictory policies, practices and techniques.

Complexity and Control in Team Sports is the first book to apply complex systems theory to 'soccer-like' team games (including basketball, handball and hockey) and to present a framework for understanding and managing the elite sports team as a multi-level complex system.