E-books: Sport and Leisure Management

Edited by David Shilbury, Lesley Ferkins

The Routledge Handbook of Sport Governance is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the wide range of issues shaping sport governance. It considers the evolution of the sport industry from a largely amateur, volunteer-driven sector into the globalised business that it is today and examines…

eBook – 2019-12-06
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Routledge International Handbooks

Edited by William J. Byrnes, Aleksandar Brkić

The Routledge Companion to Arts Management contains perspectives from international scholars, educators, consultants, and practitioners sharing opinions, exploring important questions, and raising concerns about the field. The book will stimulate conversations, foster curiosity, and open pathways…

eBook – 2019-09-24
Routledge
Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

Edited by Nancy Lough, Andrea N. Geurin

Combining knowledge from sport management, marketing, media, leadership, governance, and consumer behavior in innovative ways, this book goes further than any other in surveying current theory and research on the business of women’s sport around the world, making it an unparalleled resource for all…

eBook – 2019-05-21
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Routledge International Handbooks

Edited by Dave Collins, Andrew Cruickshank, Geir Jordet

The Routledge Handbook of Elite Sport Performance is the first book to examine a broad span of performance and support issues in contemporary elite sport; including coaching, sports science and medicine, leadership and management, operating in different societies, living in the system as a…

eBook – 2019-05-14
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Routledge International Handbooks

Edited by Simon Chadwick, Daniel Parnell, Paul Widdop, Christos Anagnostopoulos

Soccer is the world’s most valuable sport, generating bigger revenues, as well as being watched and played by more people, than any other. It is virtually impossible to understand the business of sport without understanding the football industry. This book surveys contemporary football in…

eBook – 2018-11-19
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Routledge International Handbooks

Edited by Laura Grindstaff, Ming-Cheng M. Lo, John R. Hall

The thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides an unparalleled overview of sociological and related scholarship on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. With 70 essays written by scholars from around the…

eBook – 2018-11-01
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Routledge International Handbooks

Edited by Holly Collison, Simon C. Darnell, Richard Giulianotti, P. David Howe

Sport and physical activity are now regularly used to promote social and economic development, peacebuilding and conflict resolution, on an international scale. The emergence of the ‘Sport for Development and Peace’ (SDP) sector, comprised of governments, NGOs, sport organizations and others,…

eBook – 2018-10-09
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Sport Development

Edited by Dogan Gursoy

This handbook analyzes the main issues in the field of hospitality marketing by focusing on past, present and future challenges and trends from a multidisciplinary global perspective. The book uniquely combines both theoretical and practical approaches in debating some of the most important…

eBook – 2017-10-02
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Edited by Victoria Durrer, Toby Miller, Dave O'Brien

Cultural policy intersects with political, economic, and socio-cultural dynamics at all levels of society, placing high and often contradictory expectations on the capabilities and capacities of the media, the fine, performing, and folk arts, and cultural heritage. These expectations are…

eBook – 2017-09-22
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Routledge International Handbooks

Edited by Mark Dodds, Kevin Heisey, Aila Ahonen

Contemporary sport business is international. From global sport competitions and events, sponsorship deals and broadcasting rights to labour markets and lucrative flows of tourists, anybody working in sport business today has to have an international perspective. This book offers the broadest and…

eBook – 2017-09-13
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Routledge International Handbooks

Edited by C. Michael Hall, Yael Ram, Noam Shoval

Walking is an essentially human activity. From a basic means of transport and opportunity for leisure through to being a religious act, walking has served as a significant philosophical, literary and historical subject. Thoreau’s 1851 lecture on Walking or the Romantic walks of the Wordsworths at…

eBook – 2017-07-28
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Edited by Brian P. McCullough, Timothy B. Kellison

The natural environment is a central issue in both academic and wider societal discourse. The global sport industry is not immune from this discussion and has to confront its responsibility to reduce its impact on the natural environment. This book goes further than any other in surveying both the…

eBook – 2017-07-28
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Routledge International Handbooks