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, it 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 the book introduces the developmental doctrines that underpin contemporary sports development, and considers how research and writing about sports development influences policy and practice. The second section of the book then explores the diversity of perspectives and interests in the sports development landscape, from public policy, NGOs and international sports development to cultural perspectives and social value. The third section takes a close look at the personal, organisation 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 final section of the 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.
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.
Part One: The Sports Development Field
1. Management of sports
development as a maturing field and profession Vassil Girginov
2. Theoretical
Foundations and Advancements in Sports Development Popi Sotiriadou and Yao
Bowen Part Two: Visions of Sports Development
3. Analysing sports development
discourses Isra Iqbal, Julia Ferreira Gomes, Lyndsay Hayhurst
4. Public
policies on sports development: mass and elite sport Visions Jonathan Grix
5. Non- and Quasi- Governmental Organisations in Sports Mathew Dowling and
Spencer Harris
6. International sports development policies Verity
Postlethwaite and David OByrne
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 Process of Social
Change
9. Sport as an agent for social and personal change B. Christine Green
and Sheranne Fairley
10. Sport development and organisational change Jonathan
Robertson and Lochlin Hamer
11. Major sport events and sports development
Becca Leopkey and Dana Ellis
12. Sport development addresses equality,
diversity and inclusion (EDI) Shannon Kerwin, Erik L. Lachance and Ashley
Thompson
13. Sport development strives for social justice Joanne Clarke,
Annette Stride, Louise Morby, and Janine Partington
14. Sport 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 Delivery
17. Sport development governance modes Christos
Anagnostopoulos
18. Building organisational and management capacity for the
delivery of sports development Katie E. Misener, Patti Millar, & Sarah Dunbar
19. Partnerships and networks in sports development Iain Lindsey and Phil
Brown
20. Developing sports volunteering John Hayton, Lindsay Findlay-King
and Kate Marks
21. Implementing sport development programmes March Keech
22.
Competencies of sport development managers Elizabeth Lewis and Steven Osborne
23. Communicating sports development Gashaw Abeza
24. Digitalization of
sports development Michael 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
Vassil Girginov is Professor of Sport Management at Brunel University London, UK. He also serves as 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 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.
