Sports management and facilities

The Routledge Handbook of Sports Sponsorship provides a comprehensive guide to the successful management of sport sponsorship.

The Olympic Games is unquestionably the largest and most important sporting event in the world.

The Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is the first authoritative and comprehensive account of the world's greatest sporting and cultural event.

Rethinking Sports and Integration offers a critical cultural analysis of the idea that sport can promote the integration of migrants and their descendants.

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

Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, Research Methods for Sport Management provides a complete introduction to qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods for sport management students and practitioners.

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

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.

The act of surfing involves highly-skilled humans gliding, sliding, or otherwise riding waves of energy as they pass through water.

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

International Sport Business: Current Issues, Future Directions offers a contemporary and forward-looking survey of the global sport industry, introducing the key themes, trends and critical issues that will impact decision-making and strategy in sport business in the coming decade and beyond.

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.

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.

The identification and development of talented young players has become a central concern of football clubs at all levels of the professional game, as well as for national and international governing bodies.

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

'Contemporary Issues in Sport Management presents an extensive array of absorbing contemporary issues relevant to managing sport.

Now in a fully revised and updated fourth edition, Event Management in Sport, Recreation, and Tourism provides a comprehensive theoretical and practical framework for planning and managing events at all levels, from smaller local events to mega-events.

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

Sport is increasingly regarded as a powerful tool in international development.

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

As the Olympic spectacle grows, broadcast coverage becomes bigger, more complex, and more sophisticated.

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

Sports figures cope with a level of celebrity once reserved for the stars of stage and screen.

This insightful book addresses recovery as a comprehensive concept for prevention of health-threats in modern societies through active lifestyles.

Management of Sports Development is the first book to offer a holistic approach to a field which has been growing in importance for some years.

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

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

Sport Startups: New Advances in Entrepreneurship examines the global growth of startup enterprises in the sports sector and addresses how they contribute to new developments in business innovation and entrepreneurship.

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This is a complete, step by step, reader friendly introduction to leadership theories and their application in sport organizations.

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

Now in its fourth edition, this text is still the only sport law textbook to introduce sport legal studies from a management perspective and integrate legal strategies to gain a competitive advantage in business.

Case Studies in Sport Communication: You Make the Call goes beyond the box scores by offering readers the opportunity to evaluate popular and diverse issues in sport-including management, crisis, health, ethics, gender, race, and social media.

Traditional research methods textbooks tend to present an idealized and simplistic picture of the research process.

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.

This edited text compiles advanced material relating to strategy and marketing in the field of sports business.

Sport and leisure managers need to understand the financial side of their industry to offer the most cost-effective facilities and to make sound business decisions.

Exploring Communication Ethics is a comprehensive textbook on the ethical issues facing communication professionals in today's rapidly changing media environment.

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

Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, Managing Sport Development is a complete introduction to sport development, covering key concepts and theory as well as best practice in the management, implementation, and evaluation of sport development programs.

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

It is beyond dispute that physical activity is good for us, but what are the benefits, challenges and impacts of sport on health?

This is the first book to look closely at the concept of 'risk' in elite and professional football from a social scientific perspective.

Soccer is the world's most valuable sport, generating bigger revenues, as well as being watched and played by more people, than any other.

Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Introduction to Sport Marketing is a clear, straightforward, and concise introduction to the theory and practice of sport marketing, and the only sport marketing textbook you will ever need.

As ongoing high-profile drug scandals have demonstrated, sports organisations rarely have a coherent strategy to manage the role and relationship their sport has with different types of drugs (from alcohol to supplements to prescription drugs to doping).

Public health is a key priority for developed and developing nations.

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.

New technologies mean that sports clubs and governing bodies are generating more data than ever to help manage their relationship with fans, their performance, and their income streams.

Sport Governance provides a comprehensive guide to the practical application of governance principles to amateur and professional sport organisations operating at the community, state/provincial, national, and international levels.