Political Economy Of Sports Organisations

Informationen zum Autor John Forster is Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics at Griffith University, Australia. Nigel K.L. Pope is Senior Lecturer in the School of Marketing at Griffith University, Australia. Klappentext This important book analyzes the evolution of modern sport, examining the ways in which sporting organisations have adapted over the years to accommodate changing environments, from representatives of fringe sports to giants such as the IOC or FIFA. Zusammenfassung This important book analyzes the evolution of modern sport, examining the ways in which sporting organisations have adapted over the years to accommodate changing environments, from representatives of fringe sports to giants such as the IOC or FIFA. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Global Sport Organisations: Ringmasters or Alphabet Boys? 2. A Product of History: The Creation and Evolution of Global Sports Organisations 3. The Economic Approach to Sport 4. Sources of Sport Revenue 5. Going for Gold: Global Sport Events 6. Architectures of Control: Structure and Process in the GSOs 7. For the Good of the Game: GSO Opacity and a Public Interest 8. Getting on with the Neighbours: The External Relationships of Global Sports Organisations by osvaldo Croci 9. Yielding Place to the New 10. Postscript

Product details

• Authors: Julian Ammirante, Osvaldo Croci, John Forster, John (Griffith University Forster, Forster John, Nigel Pope, Nigel (Griffith University Pope, Pope Nigel
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.05.2004
• EAN: 9780415267731
• ISBN: 978-0-415-26773-1
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 242 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy; Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General