Sports management and facilities

Sponsorship of sports, arts or events can be a powerful form of marketing communication for businesses and organizations.

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

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

Countryside recreation has become an increasingly popular leisure activity, with rural recreation offering an escape from the stresses of life in the modern city.

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.

Football is unquestionably the world's most popular and influential sport.

In this solutions-focused collection of sport corruption case studies, leading researchers consider how to re-establish trust both within sports organisations and in the wider sporting public.

This clear and accessible book is the first in-depth history of the role of the football manager in British football, tracing a path from Victorian-era amateurism to the highly paid motivational specialists and media personalities of the twenty-first century.

Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, this textbook offers a complete introduction to consumer behaviour in sport and recreation.

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.

This book explores the field of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP), putting Global South voices and perspectives at the centre of the analysis.

Despite the importance of sport as a social, economic and political institution, research into sport and social capital has not been extensive.

What role can strategic thinking play in contemporary sport management?

Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, this textbook offers a complete introduction to consumer behaviour in sport and recreation.

The book gives practical instruction and guidance in the use of accounting for effective control and higher profit in hotel and catering operations.

Sports development has become a prominent concern within both the academic study of sport and within the organisation and administration of sport.

Sport has long been used as a tool for political gain and many major sporting events are now often framed as a panacea to help combat issues such as rising obesity rates, decreasing physical activity levels and wider urban decline.

How can managers design and implement effective high performance programmes in sport?

For a long time, various different lobbying sectors have claimed that the use of video technology is an effective aid in decision-making.

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

Governance is at the centre of the work of all sport organizations, from small sport clubs to international sport federations.

Austerity is perhaps the major challenge of our times, given the speed at which it arrived and the consequences of its impact upon society.

Authors Coombs and Harker provide step-by-step guidance on how the strategic communication process-an integration of marketing communication, public relations, and advertising-can be applied to sports communication for individual athletes, teams, and leagues.

Football has an integrity problem.

Remarkable Football Grounds is a collection of some of the most memorable places to watch and play football around the world.

This book critically examines how rugby union has developed in recent years, in nations on the periphery of the sport.

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

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.

Logistics are a critical element in the planning and realization of any large-scale event.

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

The Routledge Handbook of Sports Journalism is a comprehensive and in-depth survey of the fast-moving and multifaceted world of sports journalism.

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

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.

The game of rugby has changed significantly in the course of its history.

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

The social role of sport enterprises is being increasingly recognized at both local and global levels.

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.

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

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

College Sports and Institutional Values in Competition interrogates the relationship between athletics and higher education, exploring how college athletics departments reflect many characteristics of their institutions and are also susceptible to the same challenges in delivering on their mission.

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

Highly practical and engaging, Sports Marketing equips students with the skills, techniques, and tools they need to be successful marketers in any sporting environment.

"e;From front offices to college campuses, Jake Fischer takes you on an engrossing tour of the NBA in its latest golden age, when some of the most captivating teams won by losing.

This examination of changes taking place in the world of football focuses on its growing commercialization.

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.

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.

This is the first book to examine labour markets in professional football from the perspective of football clubs rather than players.

Golf is big business around the world.

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.

Contemporary sport could not function without the involvement of voluntary organizations, from local grass-roots clubs to international agencies such as the International Olympic Committee.