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Managing Drugs in Sport book cover

1st Edition

Managing Drugs in Sport

By Jason Mazanov Copyright 2017
238 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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As recent high-profile drugs scandals have demonstrated, sport organisations rarely have a coherent, meaningful, long-term management strategy regarding drug use and abuse. Typically, sport managers hope drug problems never happen and engage in damage control when they do. This important new book argues that drugs in sport must be seen as a legitimate management issue; that the reality is that... Read more

Introduction Part 1: Context 1. Drugs in Sport as a Management Problem 2. The Role of Drugs in Sport 3. The Policy Context of Drugs in Sport 4. High Performance Sport 5. Sports as Business Part 2: Managing Drugs in Sport 6. Risk Managing Drugs in Sport 7. Marketing, Sponsorship and Drugs in Sport 8. Human Resource Management 9. Doping as Entrepreneurialism 10. Business Ethics of Drugs in Sport 11. Managing the Policy Process 12. Governance of Drugs in Sport Part 3: Management Issues 13. Managing a Sports Science Program 14. Transition from Anti-Doping 15. Managing Drugs in Non-Elite Sport 16. Drugs and Managing Integrity in Sport

Biography

Jason Mazanov is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business, UNSW-Canberra, Australia. He is a registered psychologist whose primary work has been explaining drug use, particularly the use of performance enhancing substances. He is the founding editor (with Professor Frances Quirk) of the journal Performance Enhancement and Health, has 38 peer-reviewed publications, and teaches organisational behaviour, leadership and human resource management to masters level

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