Since 2008 and following the royal directives in the letter addressed to the participants of the sports conference in Skhirat, Morocco, major efforts have been made to promote mass and spectator sports practice in order to improve the sporting landscape and to solve problems related to financing...

Die Digitalisierung zeigt in zahlreichen wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Bereichen Wirkung. Prozesse verändern sich und neue Geschäftsmodelle entstehen. Auch das Sportbusiness ist hiervon betroffen. Auf Grundlage des Geschäftsmodellrasters von Schallmo wird der aktuelle Stand der...

Introduction: The current situation and outlook for sports markets -- Sports marketing, from humble beginnings to maturity -- Watching a game or experiencing it : theoretical foundations and practical cases of the fan experience -- CSR and sports event organisers : state of play, controversies...

Ownership of sport : philosophical perspectives -- Ownership and the history of sport -- Corporate ownership of sport -- Who owns community sport? -- Politics, policy and the ownership of sport -- Ownership of sport for development and peace -- Who owns sport at sport mega events? -- Towards a...

We analyze how the Bosman ruling affected the market for star players and talent development in the European football market. We develop a model with sports competition and endogenous ownership of star players in which we show how the stiffer bidding competition over star players after the...

We analyze how the Bosman ruling affected the market for star players and talent development in the European football market. We develop a model with sports competition and endogenous ownership of star players in which we show how the stiffer bidding competition over star players after the...

La 4ème de couv. indique : "Le monde du football a été secoué par les transferts de joueurs à plus de 100 millions d'euros en 2017 et 2018 (Neymar, Mbappé, Dembélé, Coutinho) et de nombreux observateurs ont évoqué une "bulle" qui serait prête à éclater. En réalité, l'économie du...

From a renowned group of international scholars, this new work examines how leading economic countries use sport business to drive and further economic development by raising brand awareness (country as a brand), transforming lagging communities, and enhancing travel and tourism in the country

"Contemporary sport business is international. From global sport competitions and events, sponsorship deals and broadcasting rights to labour markets and lucrative flows of tourists, anybody working in sport business today has to have an international perspective. This book offers the broadest...

In this paper, we discuss from an economic perspective two alternative views of restrictions of competition by sports associations. The horizontal approach views such restrictions as an agreement among the participants of a sports league with the sports association merely representing an...

This paper provides an economic analysis of the competition effects of UEFA's financial fair play regulations. It concludes that the restrictive effects of the break-even rule cannot be justified by a legitimate objective defense (according to European competition policy) because significant...

We try to better understand possible reasons for deviations between statistically-measured competitive balance (CB) and perceived CB. Moreover, we suggest answers to the following questions: are there specific dimensions of CB that are perceived to be significantly less balanced in the Danish...

The theory of competitive balance represents one of the core concepts of sports economics. Based upon an international research project analyzing the perception of competitive balance by consumers (Pawlowski 2013a, 2013b; Pawlowski & Budzinski 2013, 2014), we argue in this paper that behavioural...

Using data from Nippon Professional Baseball, which is the Japanese professional baseball league, we examine the relationship between within-team salary disparity and team performance. We find that greater salary disparity tends to result in better team performance, which is the opposite of what...

Assessment of performance of China’s sports industry is not only favorable for grasping development level of sports industry, but also able to, from micro perspective, find out factors influencing development of sports industry and their contribution to development of sports industry....

As an industry representing soft power, the coordinated development between sports industry and tourism plays an important role in promoting economic growth. Using the cointegration theory, we carry out empirical test of economic growth, the output value of sport and tourism income; using the...

"A no-holds-barred exposé on the financial transactions of the world's favourite sport The transfer fees clubs pay to sign top players now top €4 billion a year but much of the money has been flowing out of the game. A small group of wealthy investors including Russian oligarchs, English...