Sporting events and management

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

This wide-ranging book explores the impact of marketization on the creative industries.

Managing Leisure is an excellent reference tool for both students and practitioners in the leisure industry.

When we accept that advertisers and sponsors dictate athletic schedules, that success in sport is measured by revenue, that athletes' loyalties lie with their commercial agents instead of teams and that game rules exist to be tested and broken in the pursuit of a win, what does our regard for sport say about the moral and political well-being of our society?

This book explores the relationship between sports law, the Olympic Movement and human rights.

Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, this essential textbook introduces the fundamentals of sport finance and sound financial management in the sport industry.

This is a book for any Individual who wants to succeed.

The biggest single sports and television event in Canada marks its 100th championship in 2012.

This book provides a critical examination of the origins and development of stakeholder theory within sport management research and expands the existing literature by providing insights on stakeholding in sport from various perspectives, such as governance, communication and marketing.

This insightful volume explores the major challenges facing sports journalism in Australia today, discussing how, in an environment dominated by sports organisations and increasing commercial factors, the role of the sports journalist is being severely compromised.

Defining 'politics' as contests over ideas, values and visions about what a physically active society could be, this book uses critical analysis to challenge accepted truths about physical activity and therefore opens up a pathway to more effective, and more socially just, physical activity policy.

The 1908 Olympic Games were controversial.

Drawing on original and innovative research from around the world, this book explores issues and opportunities relating to internationalising sport management curriculum.

How well do you know the Friendly Games?

Winner of the Business Book Awards 'Startup Inspiration' category ------Tough Mudder is not a race.

Cross-cultural management is an important facet of the globalized sport industry.

Strategic Recreation Management is a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the fundamental principles, managerial techniques and practices in the public administration of recreational services.

The Sports Management Toolkit is a practical guide to the most important management tools and techniques available to those working in the sport and leisure industries.

This special issue addresses the complex reality of English community football organisations, including Football in the Community (FitC) schemes, which have been attending to social agendas, such as social inclusion and health promotion.

Contemporary sport is shaped by wider society.

In most accounts of Olympic history across the world, India's Olympic journey is a mere footnote.

The thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides an unparalleled overview of sociological and related scholarship on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life.

*****Shortlisted for International Autobiography of the Year in the Telegraph Sports Book Awards 2021'This account is often poetic and sometimes haunting.

First published in 1874, "e;The Extant Odes of Pindar"e; contains a complete collection of all known odes written by Ancient Greek lyric poet Pindar.

Leeds United AFC was formed in 1919 following the disbanding of Leeds City FC by the Football League.

The sport coaching profession has historically been and continues to be a White male-dominated occupation and this remains a global issue.

A history of the longstanding US-vs.

Managing Organizations for Sport and Physical Activity, fourth edition, presents a clear and concise treatment of managing organizations in sport and physical activity.

When we accept that advertisers and sponsors dictate athletic schedules, that success in sport is measured by revenue, that athletes' loyalties lie with their commercial agents instead of teams and that game rules exist to be tested and broken in the pursuit of a win, what does our regard for sport say about the moral and political well-being of our society?

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

For Olympic athletes, fans and the media alike, the games bring out the best sport has to offer--unity, patriotism, friendly competition and the potential for stunning upsets.

This book reframes tourism, as well as leisure, within mobilities studies to challenge the limitations that dichotomous understandings of home/away, work/leisure, and host/guest bring.

This dictionary contains 2,375 Russian sayings and proverbs and their English counterparts.

The Routledge Handbook of Sport History is a new and innovative survey of the discipline of sport history.

Sports participation opportunities for individuals with impairments are increasing.

There has never been a book about the inner workings of the golf business or its leading players from an insider's point of view.

All of the stories in this book are true accounts, collected in tape-recorded interviews and transferred to the page.

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

Football has an integrity problem.

From the legendary Ebbets Field in the heart of Brooklyn to the amenity-packed Houston Astrodome to the "e;retro"e; Oriole Park at Camden Yards, stadiums have taken many shapes and served different purposes throughout the history of American sports culture.

Sport is a global phenomenon engaging billions of people and generating annual revenues of more than US$ 145 billion.

The field of sports development is becoming ever more professional, with the levels of expertise in planning and efficiency required of those working in private or national sports institutions higher than they have ever been.

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

Donald Osborne Finlay, a sporting name familiar to households in the 1930s, was Britain’s greatest athlete of the time; a hurdler whose triumphant exploits graced the sports pages and newsreels week after week.

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

A detailed, practical guide (with the backing of the main UK authorities) to the construction and maintenance of sports grounds.

This fascinating collection of essays explores the complex economic, political, cultural and social claims over sport, from multi-disciplinary perspectives including philosophy, history, political science and management.