Sport & Leisure Industries Books

New and Published Books

1. Olympic Marketing

   By Alain Ferrand, Jean-Loup Chappelet, Benoit Seguin

   The Olympic Games have become the definitive sports event, with an unparalleled global reach and a remarkably diverse constituency of stakeholders, from the IOC and International Federations to athletes, sponsors and fans. It has been estimated, for example, that 3.6 billion people (about half of...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
2. Global Sport Marketing

   Contemporary Issues and Practice

   Edited by Michel Desbordes, André Richelieu

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport Business and Management

   Globalization has had a profound impact on the sports industry, creating an international market in which sports teams, leagues and players have become internationally recognized brands. This important new study of contemporary sports marketing examines the opportunities and threats posed by a...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
3. Events Management

   An Introduction

   By Charles Bladen, James Kennell, Emma Abson, Nick Wilde

   Contemporary events management is a diverse and challenging field. This major new introductory textbook is the first to fully explore the multi-disciplinary nature of events management and to provide all the practical skills and professional knowledge students need to succeed in the events industry...

   Published February 9th 2012 by Routledge
4. Routledge Handbook of Sport Management

   Edited by Leigh Robinson, Packianathan Chelladurai, Guillaume Bodet, Paul Downward

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The Routledge Handbook of Sport Management is the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to theory and practice in sport management ever published. It provides students and scholars with a broad ranging survey of current thinking in contemporary sport management, exploring best practice in core...

   Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
5. Strategic Recreation Management

   By Jay Shivers, Joseph Halper

   Strategic Recreation Management is a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the fundamental principles, managerial techniques and practices in the public administration of recreational services. It covers every key facet of public management as it concerns recreational service, including...

   Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
6. Human Resource Management in the Sport and Leisure Industry

   By Chris Wolsey, Sue Minten, Jeffrey Abrams

   The sport and leisure sectors possess unique characteristics that pose particular challenges for managers and human resource professionals. The age profile of workers, seasonality, the pressure to achieve short-term results, media intrusion, wide differences in pay between elite and community...

   Published September 1st 2011 by Routledge
7. Managing Sport Business

   An Introduction

   Edited by Linda Trenberth, David Hassan

   Series: Foundations of Sport Management

   Contemporary sport is both a sophisticated and complex international business and a mass participatory practice run largely by volunteers and community organizations. This authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of sports management helps to explain the modern...

   Published September 1st 2011 by Routledge
8. Understanding the Olympics

   By John Horne, Garry Whannel

   The Olympic Games is unquestionably the greatest sporting event on earth, with television audiences measured in billions of viewers. By what process did the Olympics evolve into this multi-national phenomenon? How can an understanding of the Olympic Games help us to better understand international...

   Published July 4th 2011 by Routledge
9. Sport Management Cultures

   Edited by Vassil Girginov

   This is the first book to address the link between culture and sport management. The aim is to demonstrate that culture profoundly affects how we research, teach and practice sport management. The book engages with the concept of culture both as an abstract analytical category and specific beliefs...

   Published May 11th 2011 by Routledge
10. The Sports Management Toolkit

    By Paul Emery

    The Sports Management Toolkit is a practical guide to the most important management tools and techniques available to those working in the sport and leisure industries. Designed to bridge the gap between the classroom and the workplace, it includes ten free-standing chapters, each of which provides...

    Published April 17th 2011 by Routledge