Sport Management: Principles and Applications (Sport Management Series)

"Now available in a fully revised and updated sixth edition, Sport Management: Principles and Applications tells you everything you need to know about the contemporary sport industry. Covering both the professional and nonprofit sectors, and with more international material than any other introductory sport management textbook, it focuses on core management principles and their application in a sporting context, highlighting the unique challenges of a career in sport management. The book contains useful features throughout, including conceptual overviews, guides to further reading, links to important websites, study questions, and up-to-date case studies showing how theory works in the real world. It covers every core area of management, including:

Hoye, Russell

Misener, Katie

Naraine, Michael L.

Ordway, Catherine

Humor & Entertainment

Routledge

<ul> <li>Introduces all the key functional areas of the sport management curriculum, from human resources to marketing.</li> <li>Explains the practical realities of sport management.</li> <li>Covers both professional and non-profit sport.</li> <li>More international cases, examples and data than any other sport management textbook.</li> <li>New edition includes expanded coverage of key contemporary issues, including integrity and corruption, digital business and technology, and legal issues and risk management.</li> <li>Useful features in every chapter, including 'in practice' guides and extended case-studies with on-line notes for lecturers.</li> </ul>

Strategic Sport Marketing

The fifth edition of Strategic Sport Marketing integrates sport marketing frameworks, theory and practical cases to show students and practitioners how to develop and execute successful sport marketing strategies. 
The book explains contemporary sport markets, consumer behaviour, marketing strategies and best practices in sport marketing in a clear, comprehensive and engaging way. Built on a foundation of strategic decision-making, it offers a truly diverse set of case studies, ‘sportviews’ and examples from national and international sports and events, including Australian Rules (AFL) football, European soccer, Russian hockey, Grand Slam tennis and the National Basketball Association (NBA). This new edition is revised to align with contemporary sport marketing applications, conceptualising sport as part of the experience economy and integrating technology and digitalisation themes into the book, reflecting the increasing focus on data and digital communications and media delivery of sport. It encourages critical and practical thinking and problem-solving on the part of the reader to help them improve their real-world professional practice. 
This book is an essential course text for students of sport marketing and management, as well as being a useful resource for all practitioners engaged in the marketing, promotion or communication of sport organisations or brands. 
Additional teaching and learning materials are available to accompany this book, including slides, class outlines and reflective questions and answers for each chapter.

Westerbeek, Hans

Shilbury, David

Funk, Daniel C.

Karg, Adam

Sports & Outdoors

The rapid professionalization of marketing in the sport industry has helped vault the business of sport into the upper echelons of the economy. Innovative, effective, timely, and culturally sensitive marketing allows sport managers to vie for consumer attention in an ever-expanding marketplace of competitors. Canadian Sport Marketing, Third Edition With HKPropel Access, brings to life the fundamental principles of marketing, drawn from Canadian experience, with the end goal of providing students with a toolbox of useful tactics, frameworks, models, and knowledge to support a promising career or future learning in sport marketing. It covers essential topics, including the Canadian sport system and Canadian consumer behavior, market research, branding, pricing, sponsorship, ambush marketing, traditional media, social media, and digital marketing. Additionally, a sample marketing plan provides instructors an invaluable opportunity for assigned experiential learning and gives students a practical tool for use in early career work. The only text focusing on Canadian sport marketing, this edition has been extensively updated to foster applied learning in sport marketing concepts and theories, supported by expert perspectives from the Canadian sport industry. Over 40 sport industry executives and experts contribute to the In the Know sidebars, Executive Perspective, and case studies, which draw from the most successful Canadian sport brands, events, and organizations to provide real-life application of the material. Authors Norm O'Reilly and Benoit Séguin welcome Gashaw Abeza and Michael Naraine, forming an author team with comprehensive professional experience in the Canadian sport sector. With reflections on, and references to, a variety of Canadian and provincial sport entities, this third edition offers the following: <ul> <li>Learning objectives provide students a road map to navigate the content while maximizing retention.</li> <li>In the Know sidebars direct student attention to the consideration of real-world situations and sport business analysis.</li> <li>Executive Perspective sidebars, written by individuals who work within the industry, bring sport marketing concepts to life by using examples from Canadian sport businesses.</li> <li>Case studies in HKPropel allow enhanced practical application and use real Canadian examples with questions to ensure critical analysis and understanding.</li> <li>Test Your Knowledge questions help students assess their learning. Answers are provided in the instructor guide.</li> <li>A glossary helps students identify and learn key vocabulary within the text.</li> <li>A sample marketing plan provides an opportunity to review a completed marketing plan, and students can also use it as a template for creating their own plan.</li> </ul> Also new to Canadian Sport Marketing, Third Edition, are case studies and quizzes delivered through HKPropel. These are designed to increase student engagement and help students more deeply examine their comprehension of the material. Strengthen and prepare students for future success in the sport industry with Canadian Sport Marketing, Third Edition With HKPropel Access. Note: A code for accessing HKPropel is included with all new print books.

Canadian Sport Marketing

O’Reilly, Norm

Seguin, Benoit

Abeza, Gashaw

Human Kinetics

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