Sport Management - Elsevier.com
CHAPTER 1Sport ManagementOVERVIEWThis chapter reviews the development of Sport into a major sector ofeconomic and social activity and outlines the importance of Sport manage-ment as a field of study. It discusses the unique nature of Sport and the driversof change that affect how Sport is produced and consumed. A three-sectormodel of public, non-profit and professional Sport is presented, along witha brief description of the salient aspects of the Management context for sportorganizations. The chapter serves as an introduction to the remainingsections of the book, highlighting the importance of each of the completing this chapter the reader should be able to: Describe the unique features of Sport Understand the environment i
companies, major stadium operators and event managers. These three sectors do not operate in isolation and, in many cases, there is significant overlap. For example, the State is intimately involved in providing funding to non-profit sport organizations for sport development and elite athlete programmes and, in return, non-profit sport ...
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