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Informationen zum Autor Hans Westerbeek is the Director of the Institute of Sport! Exercise and Active Living (ISEAL) and Professor of Sport Business in the School of International Business at Victoria University (VU) in Melbourne! Australia. He also holds an appointment as Professor in Sport Management at the Free University of Brussels in Belgium. Klappentext Deals with some of the most important driving factors of sports' global attractiveness. This book tackles positive and negative impacts of sport as a global business on local and global communities of sports' fans and participants. Zusammenfassung Not only does this book deal with some of the most important driving factors of sport’s global attractiveness, but it also tackles important positive and negative impacts of sport as a global business on local and global communities of sport’s (potential) fans and participants. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Sport Management and Sport Business: Two Sides of the Same Coin? Hans Westerbeek 2. Sport and the Media in the UK: The Long Revolution? Raymond Boyle 3. The IPL: India’s Foray into World Sports Business Shakya Mitra 4. Japanese Post-Industrial Management: The Cases of Asics and Mizuno Koji Kobayashi , John M. Amis , Richard Unwin and Richard Southall 5. Sport Business and Social Capital: A Contradiction in Terms? Ramón Spaaij and Hans Westerbeek 6. Sport-for-development: Going Beyond the Boundary? Fred Coalter 7. Community Sports Development for Socially Deprived Groups: A Wider Role for the Commercial Sports Sector? A Look at the Flemish Situation Marc Theeboom , Reinhard Haudenhuyse and Paul De Knop 8. Commercial Sport and Local Communities: A Market Niche for Social Sport Business? Hans Westerbeek
