Preface: Three Decades Later: Reflections on Historians, Entrepreneurs, and the Sport Industry
Stephen Hardy
1. Entrepreneurship, Sport, and History: An Overview
Dilwyn Porter and Wray Vamplew
2. Opportunistic, Parasitic, Strategic, Symbiotic: Entrepreneurship and the Business of Sport
Dilwyn Porter
3. The Commodification of Sport: Exploring the Nature of the Sports Product
Wray Vamplew
4. The Patricks’s Hockey Empire: Cultural Entrepreneurship and the Pacific Coast Hockey Association, 1911–1924
John Wong
5. Entrepreneurship in an Amateur World: The Gaelic Athletic Association in Ireland
Mike Cronin
6. Sport and the New Culture of the ‘Second Golden Age’: Amsterdam’s Sporting Entrepreneurs in the 1880s and 1890s
Nick Piercey
7. New Competitions and Contracts: Sports Entrepreneurs and Litigation from a Historical Perspective
Steve Greenfield
8. Designing Diana: Female Sports Entrepreneurs and Equestrian Innovation
Erica Munkwitz
9. Opportunities for all the Team: Entrepreneurship and the 1966 and 1994 Soccer World Cups
Kevin D. Tennent and Alex G. Gillett
10. Social Change, Astro-Turfs, and Entrepreneurial Activities in the Context of German Non-Elite Football: The Example of Lower-Division Club BSV Bielstein
Kristian Naglo
Biography
Dilwyn Porter has worked extensively in business history and sports history and is a former editor of Sport in History. His research activities now focus mainly on amateurism and on entrepreneurship in sport. He recently co-authored English Gentlemen and World Soccer: Corinthians, Amateurism and the Global Game (2018) with Chris Bolsmann.
Wray Vamplew is Senior Special Projects Editor for the IJHS and a General Editor of the forthcoming Bloomsbury Cultural History of Sport. His research focuses on economic aspects of sports history.
