Understanding Sport Organizations

The classic groundbreaking text for understanding organizational theory in the sport industry is back in an extensively revised new edition. With an added emphasis on organizational behavior and practical applications of the theory, Understanding Sport Organizations: Applications for Sport Managers, Third Edition, provides a logical progression to understanding the many components of and processes in sport organizations. Readers will gain a strong theoretical foundation while learning how it applies within the context of the ever-changing field of sport management. In this third edition, new chapters incorporate critical concepts that sport managers in the current era must be familiar with: * Different policy types and the responses of sport organizations to policy * Perspectives of marketing of sport and marketing through sport * Control in sport organizations * Sex and gender in sport organizations * Volunteer management in sport * Dimensions and assessment of governance in sport