Overview
- Discusses issues of leadership and power in international sport organisations
- Analyses international sporting leaders’ strategies and management practices inside and outside sport
- Assesses the various impacts that these individuals have made on the international sports arena
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About this book
This book analyses the careers, governance and management practices of some of the institutional sports leaders who have had the greatest impact on global sport in the 120 years since Baron Pierre de Coubertin revived the Olympic Games. Through their positions in major sports organisations, their influence, the examples they set, their successes and failures, and their ability to bring about change, these notable individuals controlled and continue to control the development of Olympic and international sport.
The portraits included within this collection provide a critical analysis of these leaders’ careers by examining sports management from a biographical perspective, and allowing readers to understand the challenges and obstacles faced by international sport’s top administrators. The contributors explore the interactions between these leaders’ career paths and their strategies, both within their organisations and in the overall sporting context. Global Sport Leaders will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including sports management, sociology, politics, history and international relations.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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11970–1980s: The “Dassler Revolution”
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1990s–2000s: Commercialisation, Professionalization and Governance
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The Fall of the IFs and IOC or a New Sporting Governance?
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Emmanuel Bayle is Professor of Sports Management at the Institute of Sport Sciences, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He has published numerous titles in the field of sports management, CSR and the management of non-profit organisations.
Patrick Clastres is Professor of Sports History at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. His research interests include cultural and political contemporary history, Olympic studies and international sport federations.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Sport Leaders
Book Subtitle: A Biographical Analysis of International Sport Management
Editors: Emmanuel Bayle, Patrick Clastres
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76753-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76752-9Published: 23 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09574-1Published: 15 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-76753-6Published: 10 April 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 441
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Business Strategy/Leadership, Governance and Government, Cultural History