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Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, this is still the only textbook to introduce best management practice, process and policy in elite and high performance sport (HPS). Drawing on real-world case-studies of elite sport around the world, the book outlines a conceptual framework for studying and analysing high performance sport and introduces the skills and techniques that managers and administrators will need to develop effective HPS programmes.
Covering the macro level factors that that determine a nation's sporting success, from policy development to measurement and evaluation, the book also unpacks the specifics of elite athlete and team management at a micro level. Covering key themes from leadership and coaching to marketing and innovation, this new edition includes expanded coverage of contemporary issues such as managing interdisciplinary teams, athlete dual careers, HPS systems in less developed countries, and high performance parasport. The book features contributions from world-leading sport management academics as well as practitioners with experience of managing HPS programmes at world and Olympic level, and each chapter includes a full range of useful features, such as summaries, case-studies, review questions and guides to further reading.
This is essential reading for all students, policy makers and practitioners working in sport management or sport development.
List of contents
Part A: Managing High Performance Sport Systems, 1: High-Performance managers: The directors of managing high performance sport, 2: Measuring performance and success in elite sports, 3: Evaluating successful elite sport policies: The SPLISS model, 4: Managing high-performance Paralympic sport, 5: Managing high performance sport in emerging countries: The case of South Africa, 6: Understanding the context of elite sport system through an organisational neo-institutional lens, 7: Commercial, political, socio-cultural and technological factors impacting on the management of high performance sport, 8: Commercialisation of sport and the impact on HPS, Part B: Managing High Performance Athletes, 9: Sport and athlete development in high performance sport: attracting, transitioning, retaining and optimising performance, 10: A developmental and holistic perspective on athletic career development, 11: Coaching high-performance professional sport: Positioning, responsibilities and tensions, 12: The role of the athletes' entourage in high performance sport, 13: Managing dual careers in high performance sport, 14: Elite athlete wellbeing and life after sport, 15: HP athlete marketing, endorsements & athlete legal rights, 16: Performance-enhancing substances and methods in high-performance sport
About the author
Veerle De Bosscher is professor in sport management at the department of Sports and movement sciences of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium. She is the founder of SPLISS (Sports Policy factors Leading to International Sporting Success, www.spliss.net). Her research focusses on youth and elite sport policy, the societal impact of sport, Olympic Games, athlete pathways and Paralympic development and her main expertise lays in measuring (elite) sport policy effectiveness, and benchmarking nations. Her research activities have resulted widely used policy documents, measurement instruments (e.g., SPLISS, MESSI), peer-reviewed publications, workshops, and national and international presentations. Within the Physical Education and Movement Sciences Bachelor's and Master's program at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Veerle teaches courses related to sport policy and management (e.g., the organisation of sport, sport policy, event-and project management in sport, high performance management). She supervised 15 PhD students, over 100 master thesis students and co- authored over 150 publications in high standard journals and books.
