Understanding sport management : international perspectives / edited by Trish Bradbury and Ian O'Boyle.
By: Bradbury, Trish [editor]
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Contributor(s): O'Boyle, Ian [editor.].
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BookPublisher: Abingdon, UK ; New York : Routledge, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: xvii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781138100633 (paperback).Subject(s): Sports administration | Sports | Sports sponsorship | Communication in sportsDDC classification: 796.069 UND | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Kerry North Campus Library First Floor Main | 796.069 UND (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | MTU Kerry Modules MGMT 61012, MGMT 61024 Recommended | 38888000965503 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Sport management is a rapidly developing industry which continues to grow in size and scope on an international scale. This comprehensive and engaging textbook offers a complete introduction to core principles and best practice in contemporary sport management. Adopting an issues-based approach and drawing on the very latest research, it demonstrates how theory translates into practice across all the key functional areas of sport management, from governance and leadership to tourism and events.
Written by a team of experts from across the globe, the book explores sport management from a truly international perspective and looks at all levels from professional, high-performance sport to non-profit and grassroots. With extended real-world case studies and an array of helpful features in every chapter, it addresses crucial topics such as:
managing organisational performance communication and social media sponsorship and marketing the impact of sport on society future directions for sport management.Complemented by a companion website full of additional teaching and learning resources for students and instructors, this is an essential textbook for any degree-level sport management course.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Section 1: The sport management environment -- The new sport management environment -- The impact of sport in society -- Organisational structure and theory of non-profit sport organisations -- Professional sport -- The global sport environment
Section 2: Foundations of sport management -- Creating high-performing non-profit sport organisations -- Controlling and managing organisational performance : the viable system model -- Strategic management in non-profit sport -- Managing volunteers in grassroots sport -- Sport governance -- Leadership in sport management -- Soliciting sport sponsorship -- Sport marketing -- The economics of sport -- Section 3: Elements of sport management -- Communication and social media -- Sport law -- Sport event management -- Sport tourism -- The continuing evolution of sport management.
MTU Kerry Module MGMT 61012 - Recommended reading.
MTU Kerry Module MGMT 61024 - Recommended reading.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of figures (p. vii)
- List of tables (p. ix)
- Notes on contributors (p. xi)
- Section 1 The sport management evironment (p. 1)
- 1 The new sport management environment (p. 3)
- 2 The impact of sport in society (p. 11)
- 3 Organisational structure and theory of non-profit sport organisations (p. 27)
- 4 Professional sport (p. 44)
- 5 The global sport environment (p. 58)
- Section 2 Foundations of sport management (p. 73)
- 6 Creating high performing non-profit sport organisations (p. 75)
- 7 Controlling and managing organisational performance: the viable system model (p. 95)
- 8 Strategic management in non-profit sport (p. 116)
- 9 Managing volunteers in grassroots sport (p. 130)
- 10 Sport governance (p. 145)
- 11 Leadership in sport management (p. 159)
- 12 Soliciting sport sponsorship (p. 172)
- 13 Sport marketing (p. 184)
- 14 The economics of sport (p. 198)
- Section 3 Elements of sport management (p. 213)
- 15 Communication and social media (p. 215)
- 16 Sport law (p. 229)
- 17 Sport event management (p. 243)
- 18 Sport tourism (p. 259)
- 19 The continuing evolution of sport management (p. 273)
- Index (p. 282)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Trish Bradbury is a senior lecturer at Massey University, New Zealand, where she lectures in both sport management and core management programmes of study. She has extensive experience in managing/coaching organisations and sports teams, and actively volunteers in the sport community. Her major research interests concern aspects of sport/business management related to events, HRM, organisation development and performance management. Dr. Bradbury has published in various journals such as Sport Management Review, Sport, Business and Management and International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship. Her first book is Sport Governance: International Case Studios [Routledge, 2013].Ian O'Boyle is a researcher in the area of sport governance and leadership. He is also the Director of the CERM Performance Indicators Project, which focuses on researching operational indicators and customers perceptions of service quality for local government sports and leisure facilities and services providing improved operational decision-making and internal and external benchmarking. His work appears in the leading sport management journals such as Journal of Sport Management, Sport Management Review and European Sport Management Quarterly. In 2015, Dr O'Boyle received a Research Excellence Award from the Uni Business School in recognition of his extensive high quality research record.