Sports management and facilities

At a time of profound change in the economic, social, political and sporting landscape, sport development faces important challenges.

All successful marketing strategies in sport or events must take into account the complex behaviour of consumers.

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

This book explores sport marketing analytics, an essential and crucially important aspect of contemporary sport business.

Community Leisure and Recreation Planning offers an up-to-date, evidence-based approach to planning community leisure and recreation facilities, programs and services.

Sports Fundraising is a complete introduction to fundamental principles and best practice in sports fundraising.

Drawing on primary research within voluntary sports clubs in the UK and secondary analysis of the wider international literature on social capital, this text focuses on the micro-processes of social capital development and how they play out in specific social settings.

The Routledge Handbook of Sport Governance is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the wide range of issues shaping sport governance.

Despite the mythology of sport bringing people together and encouraging everyone to work collectively to success, modern sport remains a site of exclusionary practices that operate on a number of levels.

Sport Cyberpsychology is the first book devoted to assessing the influence of technology on human interaction, behaviour and mental health in a sport context, gathering research on the use of technology and the Internet by athletes, coaches and sport science support staff.

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.

This book highlights the different roles of youth sport, from sport for all and community sport activities to elite sport and international competitions, to suggest significant new directions for youth sport research and practices.

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

The internet and digital technologies have transformed sport and the way that we research sport, opening up new ways to analyse sport organisations, fan communities, networks, athletes, the media, and other key stakeholders in the field.

The interdependent coach-athlete relationship represents the most fundamental instance of a duty of care in sport.

This Reader provides comprehensive coverage of the scholarly literature in sports tourism.

In recent years, football's status as "e;the world's sport"e; has shown little sign of waning.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the historical, political, and technical evolution of taekwondo.

This is the first book to examine the critically important topic of sustainability in sport through the lens of integrity.

Marketing and the world of sport overlap in two main ways: in the marketing of sports related products and services, and in the use of sports events to market a broader range of products and services.

The Olympic Games have become the definitive sports event, with an unparalleled global reach and a remarkably diverse constituency of stakeholders, from the IOC and International Federations to athletes, sponsors and fans.

Volunteers are central to sport at all levels, from mega-events to grassroots clubs.

This book explores social and political issues and trends emerging around the UEFA European Football Championships.

Sport is often seen as an indicator of the civic maturity of a community, an aspect of the rights of citizens to health, education and social integration.

Relationship marketing is an important issue in every business.

Contemporary sport is both a sophisticated and complex international business and a mass participatory practice run largely by volunteers and community organisations.

This book takes an important step forward in showing how Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) have been applied within the English Premier League (EPL) - arguably the most commercialised and watched sport league in the world - and how it can and should be utilised in the context of other sports properties.

Football is arguably one of the most important sports in the world, and the marketing of football has become an increasingly important issue, as clubs and product owners need to generate more revenue from the sport.

Sport has become an important avenue in how we interpret, remember, and maintain our heritage.

One of the greatest changes in the sports world in the past 20 years has been the use of mathematical methods to analyze performances, recognize trends and patterns, and predict results.

This practical textbook explains the sport development process from a practitioner's viewpoint, showing what actually works, how, and why.

The sport and leisure sectors possess unique characteristics that pose particular challenges for managers and human resource professionals.

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

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

In many Western nations, community sport coaches occupy a central role in supporting the physical health, mental wellbeing, and wider social development of individuals and communities.

The first summer Youth Olympic Games (YOG) were held in Singapore in 2010 and the first winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck in 2012.

This book is a critical exploration of motorsport's contribution to 'the green transition', understood as a societal shift towards a fossil-free future, a circular economy, and greater social inclusiveness.

The Routledge Handbook of Digital Sport Management provides students, researchers, and practitioners with a contemporary roadmap of the impact of digital technologies in sport management, at all levels and in all sectors, in a global context.

With climate change and other environmental issues becoming increasingly prominent, any successful sport organization now has to incorporate environmental concerns into their business strategy, while all sport managers must understand how to implement environmental initiatives into their everyday business.

For nearly 40 years Torkildsen's Sport and Leisure Management has been the most comprehensive and engaging introduction to sport and leisure management available to students at all levels.

Sport is often perceived as being divided into two separate domains: mass participation and elite .

All successful marketing strategies in sport or events must take into account the complex behaviour of consumers.

The study of football fandom is a fast-growing area of research in the sociology of sport.

Korea has become a powerful force in global sport, with South Korea finishing fifth in the medals table at London 2012 and hosting the Winter Olympics in 2018.

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 looks at how sport and sports organisations have had to innovate during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Cities presents an up-to-date, critical and comprehensive overview of established and emerging themes in urban tourism and tourist cities.

The FIFA World Cup is arguably the biggest sporting event on earth.

'a must-read' - Daniel Storey'Superb, from the first page to the last' Daniel Taylor Football journalist Nick Miller lifts the lid on football club ownership: the defining issue shaping the modern game.

This is the first book to consider the intersections of sport, international development and environmental sustainability.