international, professional and commercial aspects /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Harald Dolles and Sten Sderman
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2011
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xvi, 263 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill. ;
Dimensions
23 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliography and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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'As American as mom, apple pie and Dutch soccer?': The team identification of foreign Ajax FC supporters / Anthony K. Kerr, Narelle F. Smith and Alastair Anderson -- Decision-making styles in purchasing sport products: An international comparison between American and Korean college students / Sungwon Bae -- Travel time elasticities in recreational sports: Empirical findings for the professionalization in sports facility management / Tim Pawlowski, Christoph Breuer and Pamela Wicker -- Perception of the impacts of major commercial sport events / Christopher J. Auld, Kathleen M. Lloyd and Jennifer Rieck - Gender, race and nationality: An examination of print media coverage of the 2006 Winter Olympics / Andrea N. Eagleman and Erin L. McNary -- Enhancing public sports facilities: A representation of the global value / Bernard Aug, Arnaud Pedenon and Alexandre Vernet -- Sports organizations, professionalization and organizational conflict: A review of the literature / John Schulz -- International and professional dimensions of national governing bodies: Insights from the Gaelic Athletic Association / Anne Bourke -- The role of central brokers and their influence on effectiveness in an intentionally created sports professionalization network / Simon G. Martin, Maureen Benson-Rea and Nitha Palashappa -- Business ecosystem co-evolution: The ultimate fighting championships / Simon Ford and Clive Kerr -- Learning from failure: Is major league soccer repeating the mistakes of the North American Soccer League? / John D. Francis -- Learning from success: Implementing a professional football league in Japan / Harold Dolles and Sten Sderman
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Sport has a number of distinctive characteristics which impact on the extent of its globalization. This book seeks to gain a deeper understanding of the unique development in sports, its governance, its logic of co-creation of value and the advancement of the industry towards internationalisation, professionalisation and commercialisation