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Foundations of Sport Management


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Foundations of Sport Management is a discipline-defining series of texts on core and cutting-edge topics in sport management. Featuring some of the best known and most influential sport management scholars from around the world, each volume represents an authoritative, engaging and self-contained introduction to a key functional area or issue within contemporary sport management. Packed with useful features to aid teaching and learning, the series aims to bridge the gap between management theory and practice and to encourage critical thinking and reflection among students, academics and practitioners.

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Research Methods for Sport Management

Research Methods for Sport Management

2nd Edition

Forthcoming

By James Skinner, Aaron C.T. Smith, Daniel Read, Lauren M. Burch, Jacqueline Mueller
July 10, 2024

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.  Full of real-world case studies, data, and examples, and including international...

Managing Sport Business An Introduction

Managing Sport Business: An Introduction

2nd Edition

Edited By David Hassan
May 04, 2018

Contemporary sport is both a sophisticated and complex international business and a mass participatory practice run largely by volunteers and community organisations. Now in a fully revised and expanded second edition, this authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of ...

Organizational Behaviour in Sport

Organizational Behaviour in Sport

1st Edition

By James Skinner, Bob Stewart
May 23, 2017

What makes a sport enterprise successful? How can managers working in sport improve organizational effectiveness through strategic behaviour management? This comprehensive and accessible textbook addresses these important questions and examines the theories that underpin organizational analysis in ...

Routledge Handbook of Sport and Corporate Social Responsibility

Routledge Handbook of Sport and Corporate Social Responsibility

1st Edition

Edited By Juan Luis Paramio Salcines, Kathy Babiak, Geoff Walters
September 24, 2015

As the role of sport in society becomes ever more prominent and as sports organisations become increasingly influential members of the global community, so it has become more important than ever for sport to consider its wider social responsibilities. The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Corporate...

Leadership in Sport

Leadership in Sport

1st Edition

Edited By Ian O'Boyle, Duncan Murray, Paul Cummins
June 19, 2015

Effective leadership is essential in any sports organisation, both in the boardroom and on the training pitch. Leadership in Sport is the first textbook to examine sports leadership in the round, across both management and coaching environments. It includes a dedicated section to underpinning core ...

Sport Governance International Case Studies

Sport Governance: International Case Studies

1st Edition

Edited By Ian O'Boyle, Trish Bradbury
February 27, 2015

Governance has become a hugely important issue within sport. Issues of corruption and ‘bad governance’ have become synonymous with some aspects of sport and closer scrutiny than ever before is being applied to ensure organisations are following international best practice in respect to how they are...

Research Methods for Sport Management

Research Methods for Sport Management

1st Edition

By James Skinner, Allan Edwards, Ben Corbett
November 11, 2014

Research methods courses have become a compulsory component of most degree programs in sport management. This is the first introductory research methods textbook to focus exclusively on sport management. Through the use of examples, cases and data taken from the real world of sport management it ...

Managing High Performance Sport

Managing High Performance Sport

1st Edition

Edited By Popi Sotiriadou, Veerle De Bosscher
January 25, 2013

How can managers design and implement effective high performance programmes in sport? What are the key challenges in managing elite athletes, sports people and teams? This is the first book to provide a comprehensive introduction to management practice, process and policy in elite and high ...

Managing Sport Social and Cultural Perspectives

Managing Sport: Social and Cultural Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By David Hassan, Jim Lusted
December 04, 2012

Contemporary sport is shaped by wider society. Today those managing sport must be aware of the broader social and cultural context within which it exists if their effectiveness is to be established and their careers defined. This book is the first of its kind to contextualise the wider social and ...

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