Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Obituary, János Kornai (1928-2021) -- 1. Introduction: new research pathways in the soft budget constraint approach -- 2. Soft budget constraints and institutional logics in European...

Written by European professors and focusing on the specificities of European sport, When Sport Meets Business analyses the growing commercialisation of professional sport in recent years and explains how it has developed into a major global industry. Structured into four sections, the book...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine citizens’ willingness to pay (WTP), in relation to having a professional first-tier football club in a medium-sized Danish municipality, when tangible economic benefits such as economic growth and/or inbound migration produced by these are...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue for the necessity of regulating European club football financially, in order to create a fair structure of sporting competition. Design/methodology/approach – By deploying the soft budget constraint approach – originally developed by...