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Complexity and Control in Team Sports Dialectics in contesting human systems

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248 Pages

by Routledge

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Complexity and Control in Team Sports is the first book to apply complex systems theory to ‘soccer-like’ team games (including basketball, handball and hockey) and to present a framework for understanding and managing the elite sports team as a multi-level complex system. Conventional organizational studies have tended to define team sports as a set of highly heterogeneous physical, mental and... Read more

Introduction Part I. Methodological aspects of complexity in team sports Chapter 1. Complexity in modern sciences Chapter 2. Complexity in living systems - in nature and humans Chapter 3. To think complex in team sports Part II. Individuals in team contests - the complexity point of view Chapter 4. Movement coordination and individual performance Chapter 5. Contest cognition and complexity in team sports Chapter 6. Complete complex framework of individual performance Chapter 7. Complexity and emotional states regulation Part III. Complexity in sport teams and organizations Chapter 8. Self-organization in group and team dynamics Chapter 9. Control and regulation of team performance by coaches Chapter 10. Complexity at the elite club level Part IV. Applying the complexity approach Chapter 11. Complexity approach to scientific support in elite teams