This article aims to understand the importance of having a stadium owned by a football club as an added value if it is designed and managed from a socially responsible perspective in a context, that of Italian sport, which is still far from European standards in terms of infrastructure. The...

This book is a bold and ambitious analysis of the challenges facing global sport in the 21st century and how those challenges can be met through good governance, management and regulation. Connecting the political and managerial dimensions of sport, from international governing bodies such as...

Although sports are a dream career for many young people, only a small percentage of athletes can make a living from this. Moreover, even elite athletes with high incomes must find other employment after sports. This justifies the development of their human capital via education valued by...

This is the first book to focus on crowdfunding in sport. Crowdfunding is an important new financial instrument that is becoming more popular with sports organisations, and this book examines the research evidence for crowdfunding and considers how it might be successfully implemented....

Stopping competitions and the training process was a shock that sports organizations had to deal with. Financial problems forced them to rethink the situation. In Slovakia, this became critical. This is why we started to research this issue to provide an answer to the research question: What are...

Sports organizations, to be profitable and competitive, become structures that demand the integration of competent personnel with certain characteristics and specific attributes determined by the job profile. This position rests on the purpose of productivity through good performance to fulfill...

Background: This paper is the first-ever discussion of sport logistics as an intersection of the academic disciplines of logistics and sport management. Methods: It reviews past literature and states that logistics in sport is widely overlooked in academic literature. It illustrates the...

This article presents a state-of-the-art overview of the sport management research discipline through a bibliometric analysis of publication data from the top five sport management journals in the decade 2011–2020. The analysis includes citation and productivity analysis of journals,...

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- I.1 Saudi Sportswashing -- I.2 A System That Is Difficult to Change -- I.3 An Unprecedented Strategy to Disrupt World Sport -- I.4 Regulating International Sport -- I.5 Beyond the...

"Christos Anagnostopoulos brings together a diverse range of leading experts in this comprehensive Research Handbook to examine how corporate social responsibility (CSR) in sport has grown from a fledgling concept to a robust field of research and practice. Highlighting sport's ability to...

Accessible sport venues: international perspectives -- an introduction -- Philosophical foundations of accessible sport venues -- Legislative context and venue design -- Sport events and tourism -- The consumer journey to and from the venue -- Welcoming people with disability to sports venue...

"This book presents cutting-edge perspectives on communication in sport management, a core component of contemporary sport business. Offering an important snapshot of the state of the art in sport communication, this book is fascinating reading for any advanced student, researcher, policy maker,...

This book investigates the innovative trajectories of sports companies in different cultural and geographical contexts and analyzes how they manage the knowledge obtained from collaboration with end users, suppliers, and their own experiences. In doing so, it presents an empirical analysis with...

This study seeks to understand how virtual meetings disrupt or propel the functioning of sports management organizations in Thailand during the COVID-19 pandemic, what is critical to executives meetings held during the time, and the impact on meeting attendees amid the public health crisis. A...

One of the potential avenues for former professional football players to pursue their career is to become a head coach of a club’s first team. An important question is how to best prepare for such a reconversion. This letter is the first in the academic literature quantifying the association...

One of the potential avenues for former professional football players to pursue their career is to become a head coach of a club's first team. An important question is how to best prepare for such a reconversion. This letter is the first in the academic literature quantifying the association...

Purpose: To use the project management approach for the management of the events and, particularly, to adapt the PM2 methodology to sports events.Design/methodology/approach: Theoretical analysis about whether a sport event is a project, and what must be fulfilled for it to be so. Theoretical...