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Managing Sports Organizations: Responsibility for Performance

Author: Daniel Covell

Managing Sports Organizations integrates sport industry dynamics with important management principles and concepts. Every chapter examines management principles, concepts and issues from the perspective of how to improve the performance of sport organizations. To ensure that readers understand the complexity of the sport industry, each chapter features a distinct sport segment with information about the structure and characteristics of the highlighted sport segment. Managing Sports Organizations incorporates information about functional areas such as finance, marketing and legal aspects of sport industry.

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A number of North American colleges and universities are creating sport management programs that emphasize management learning and organizational issues. This textbook was written for use in introductory classes in such programs. Chapters cover global licensing and social responsibility, information technology and sports media, decision-making, strategic planning, operational planning, organization design, motivation and leadership, human resource management, and managing change in collegiate athletics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Part I: Introduction to Management of the Sport Industry
1. An Introduction to the Sport Industry & Management
2. Performance Issues & the Licensed and Branded Product Industry
3. Technology and Information Management
Part II: Critical Management Tasks
4. Developing Goals & School/Youth Sports
5. Decision Making & the Health & Fitness Industry
Part III: Planning for Performance
6. Strategic Planning & Professional League Sports
7. Operational Planning & Control
Part IV: Organizing for Performance
8. Designing the Organization & Sport Agency
9. Design of Work in the Recreation Industry
Part V: Improving Performance
10. Motivation and Leadership & Olympic Sport
11. Human Resource Management
12. Managing Change Index

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Capitalist Imperative: Territory, Technology and Industrial Growth

Author: Richard Walker

Why do cities, regions and nations experience periods of pronounced growth and decline? Why have the world's centres of economic activity been continually reshuffled as the industrial revolution has spread to new parts of the globe?

This book demonstrates that under capitalism, the process central to growth is geographical industrialization, and that the creation and use of territory is fundamental to economic development. In doing so, they make new contributions to the study of growth theory, industrial economics, technological change, industrial organization, labour market, urban and regional development, and theoretical human geography. Beginning with the economics of disequilibrium growth, the authors reveal the technological, organizational and political foundations of industrialization, and conclude by showing that the territorial forms that industry takes are central to the shape and survival of capitalism itself.