Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction to Sport Management; Chapter 1. Managing Sport; Chapter 3. Historical Aspects of the Sport Business Industry; Chapter 5. Managing and Leading in Sport Organizations; Part II. Selected Sport Management Sites; Chapter 7. Interscholastic Athletics; Chapter 9. Professional Sport; Chapter 11. Sport Tourism; Part III. Selected Sport Management Functions; Chapter 13. Sport Consumer Behavior; Chapter 15. Finance and Economics in the Sport Industry; Part IV. Current Challenges in Sport Management; Chapter 19. A North American Perspective on International Sport.

About the Author

Paul M. Pedersen, is a professor of sport management and the director of the sport management programme in the School of Public Health at Indiana University. He has also worked as a sportswriter, sports management consultant and sport business columnist. Lucie Thibault is a professor in the department of sport management at Brock University in Ontario, where she has taught since 2002. Lucie has instructed courses in organisational theory, organisational behaviour, ethics in sport, globalisation of sport and policy and social issues in sport.