Management of Sports Development

2. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-83618-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 454 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1000 g

Now in a fully revised and significantly expanded new edition, Management of Sports Development is a complete introduction to the theory, policy and practice of sports development. With a focus on professional knowledge and managerial competencies, this book defines conceptually and semantically the field of sports development and explains how a clear vision, managed processes of change and effective delivery can lead to the best sustainable outcomes for people, communities and sports organisations.

The first section of this book introduces the developmental doctrines that underpin contemporary sports development and considers how research and writing about sports development influence policy and practice. The second section of this book then explores the diversity of perspectives and interests in the sports development landscape, from public policy, international sports development to cultural perspectives and social value. The third section takes a closer look at the personal, organisational and social change stimulated by sports development visions, a critical consideration for effective strategy, programme implementation and management, including current issues such as social justice, sustainability and mega-sporting events. The fourth and final section of this book looks closely at delivery, unpacking key functional areas such as governance, building organisational capacity, networks and partnerships, volunteering, digitalisation, and monitoring and evaluation.

Management of Sports Development is an essential textbook for any sport development course and is invaluable reading for any policy maker or practitioner looking to improve their subject knowledge or professional skills.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Girginov, Vassil

Dowling, Mathew

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen Tourismuswirtschaft, Gastgewerbe
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Sport, Sportwissenschaft: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART ONE

The Sports Development Field

Introduction

1 Management of Sports Development as a Maturing Field and Profession

VASSIL GIRGINOV

2 Theoretical Foundations and Advancements in Sports Development

POPI SOTIRIADOU AND BOWEN YAO

PART TWO

Visions of Sports Development

Introduction

3 Analysing Sports Development Discourses

ISRA IQBAL, JULIA FERREIRA GOMES AND LYNDSAY HAYHURST

4 Public Policies on Sports Development: Mass and Elite Sport ‘Visions’

JONATHAN GRIX

5 Non- and Quasi-Governmental Organisations in Sports Development

MATHEW DOWLING AND SPENCER HARRIS

6 International Sports Development Policies

VERITY POSTLETHWAITE AND DAVID O’BYRNE

7 A Cultural Perspective on Sports Development

CORA BURNETT

8 The Social Value of Sports Development

LARISSA DAVIES AND PETER TAYLOR

PART THREE

Sports Development as a Process of Change 159

Introduction 161

9 Sport as an Agent for Social and Personal Change

B. CHRISTINE GREEN AND SHERANNE FAIRLEY

10 Sports Development and Organisational Change

JONATHAN ROBERTSON AND LOCHLIN HAMER

11 Major Sport Events and Sports Development

BECCA LEOPKEY AND DANA ELLIS

12 Sports Development Addresses Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

SHANNON KERWIN, ERIK L. LACHANCE AND ASHLEY THOMPSON

13 Sports Development Strives for Social Justice

JOANNE CLARKE, ANNETTE STRIDE, LOUISE MORBY AND JANINE PARTINGTON

14 Sports Development Faces Gender Representation

LARA LESCH, CHRISTIAN ZIERKE AND PAMELA WICKER

15 Sports Development and Geography: The Importance of Space and Place

NICHOLAS WISE

16 Sustainable Sports Development

BRIAN MCCULLOUGH

PART FOUR

Sports Development as a Practice

Introduction

17 Sports Development Governance Modes

CHRISTOS ANAGNOSTOPOULOS

18 Building Organisational and Management Capacity for the Delivery of Sports Development

KATIE E. MISENER, PATTI MILLAR AND SARAH DUNBAR

19 Partnerships and Networks in Sports Development

IAIN LINDSEY AND PHIL BROWN

20 Developing Sports Volunteering

JOHN HAYTON, L INDSAY FINDLAY-KING AND KATE MARKS

21 Implementing Sports Development Programmes

MARC K EECH

22 Competencies of Sports Development Managers

ELIZABETH LEWIS AND STEVEN OSBORNE

23 Communicating Sports Development

GASHAW ABEZA

24 Digitalisation of Sports Development

MICHAEL L. NARAINE AND BRAD MILLINGTON

25 Monitoring and Evaluation for Sports Development

SHUSHU CHEN AND ZHAOYU DUAN

26 Afterword: Managing Visions, Change and Delivery in Sports Development

VASSIL GIRGINOV

Über Autor(innen)

Vassil Girginov, PhD, is a Professor of Sport Management at Brunel University London, UK. He also serves as the President of the European Association for Sport Management and the General Editor of Routledge Resource Online: Sport Studies. Girginov has authored and edited several books with Routledge and other publishers. His most recent book is Running Events: Policies, Marketing and Impacts (Routledge, 2018).

Mathew Dowling, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Management in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, UK. His research focuses on sport governance and organisational and systemic change within not-for-profit sport organisations. He has an established track record of publishing in leading journals and has co-authored books within sport management, sport governance and comparative methods in sport.