Sports management and facilities

Corruption in the sport industry is a pervasive issue that threatens the integrity of sport as an institution.

Combining knowledge from sport management, marketing, media, leadership, governance, and consumer behavior in innovative ways, this book goes further than any other in surveying current theory and research on the business of women's sport around the world, making it an unparalleled resource for all those who aspire to work in, or understand, women's sport.

This volume offers a critical and complicated picture of how leisure tourism connected the world after the World War II, transforming coastal lands, traditional societies, and national economies in new ways.

Sport is both a global business and a vehicle for social inclusion and community development.

This book examines the power relations that emerge from the convergence of the universe in which the sporting spectacle is produced and the universe in which a city is produced.

The new sports frontier that turns fans into would-be execs-and transforms the suits into superstars Front office executives have become high-profile commentators, movie and video game protagonists, and role models for a generation raised in the data-driven, financialized world of contemporary sports.

Drawing on rich empirical material from elite French sport, this book offers a detailed history of how the concept of doping evolved from the twentieth to the twenty-first century.

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

This book explores key and topical issues that are emerging in the field of sport marketing, while calling for further attention to the thriving sports industry.

Sport governance has become an increasingly widespread subject for research and teaching in sports studies.

Originally published in 1971 The Countryside on View is a handbook which provides extensive information about the many ways in which visitors to rural areas may find out about what they have come to enjoy.

Now in its fifth edition, The Psychology of Exercise: Integrating Theory and Practice is the ideal resource for undergraduate courses devoted to the study of exercise behavior.

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

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

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 book provides students and event managers with an insight into the strategic management of sports events of all scales and types, from international mega-events to community sport.

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.

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.

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

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

This book cuts through the jargon and complicated formulae to focus on the key concepts in sports economics, introducing the fundamentals in a concise and engaging way to give the reader without a background in economics the tools with which to read and apply sports economics in their work.

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.

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

This book represents the first international collection that challenges current thinking and research in the emerging field of nature sport.

Beach Soccer Histories is the first text to consider the sport as a historical, social and cultural phenomenon, to define its traditions, and present leading research on the development and significance of football played on sand.

Managing Football is the first book to directly respond to the rapid managerial, commercial and global development of the sport and offers a thorough analysis of how the football industry can meet the challenges that flow from these developments.

What are the challenges and potential pitfalls of real research?

Founded in 1904 by representatives of the sporting organisations of six European nations then expanding into the Americas, Asia and Africa FIFA has developed to become one of the most high profile and lucrative businesses in the global consumer and cultural industry.

Sports Business Management will equip students with a comprehensive understanding of the sport industry.

Sports now constitute one of the most valuable forms of broadcast entertainment in today's lucrative international market.

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 empirically-grounded text examines the policy, planning, development and implementation of disability sport events.

In an increasingly turbulent, insecure and fast-changing world, this book presents case studies of crisis management that help the reader to understand what best practice looks like and how to guide sport organizations through the crises that are an inevitable aspect of commercial life.

Cities and regions around the world increasingly capitalize on a series of events aimed at optimizing their reach and outcomes.

This book offers an in depth analysis of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.

This book is a comprehensive summary of the recommendations for best practice, and current evidence, for physical activity and rehabilitation of functional deficits in individuals with end-stage diseases.

This book examines contemporary issues of security at sports mega-events (SMEs).

Applying concepts, data, and other information from various sources in the literature when and where appropriate, the book reveals and examines the behavior, contribution, and impact of student athletes (SAs) on campuses of American colleges and universities.

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

An increasingly important element of sport business is the management of the myriad of relationships in which sport entities are involved.

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

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.

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

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

Ben Calder-Smith travelled around the UK for 18 months meeting and interviewing a broad cross-section of former fighters and boxing personalities.

Business success used to look like football.

The California Kid, Mixed Martial Arts pioneer and former featherweight champ in World Extreme Cagefighting, Urijah Faber offers an unconventional and enlightening guide to mental dominance and personal success.

The first inside account of the international soccer scandal that rocked the world and the American at its centerthe incredible story of how a stay-at-home New York soccer dad illegally made millions off the worlds most powerful and corrupt sports organization and became an unlikely FBI whistleblower.

La palabra gestion adquiere cada dia mas valor cuando se trata de dirigir y orientar la actividad deportiva.

Arch and unrepentant, Will Leitch, founding editor of Deadspin.