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E-raamat: Sport Industry Research and Analysis: An Informed Approach to Decision Making 2nd edition [Taylor & Francis e-raamat]

  • Formaat: 262 pages, 19 Tables, black and white; 134 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Halftones, black and white; 138 Illustrations, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 03-Mar-2020
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9780429296499
  • Taylor & Francis e-raamat
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  • Formaat: 262 pages, 19 Tables, black and white; 134 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Halftones, black and white; 138 Illustrations, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 03-Mar-2020
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9780429296499

Sport Industry Research and Analysis offers a straightforward, no nonsense approach to research design and statistical analyses in sport organizations. This fully revised and updated new edition describes the research process, from identifying a research question to analyzing data, and uses real world scenarios to help students and industry professionals understand how to conduct research and apply the results in their wider work.

The book includes clear, step-by-step instructions for the analysis and interpretation of data. It explains how to use Excel and SPSS for every key statistic and statistical technique, with screenshots illustrating every step and additional scenarios providing further context. "In Practice" contributions from sport industry professionals demonstrate how these practitioners use statistical analyses in their everyday tasks, and this new edition includes expanded sections on conducting a literature review, research ethics, as well as ancillary materials for instructors including slides, test questions, data files, answer sheets and videos.

This is the clearest and most easy-to-use guide to research and analysis techniques in sport, helping the reader to build essential skills and confidence in using statistics, vital to support decision-making in any sport enterprise. It is an essential text for any sport business research methods course, and an invaluable reference for all sport industry professionals.

Foreword vii
Dianna P. Gray
Preface ix
Acknowledgements xi
Glossary xii
PART I Approaches to collecting information and data
1(74)
1 Why we need to know about research and analysis: and what they have to do with a career in sport management
3(6)
2 Reading and understanding existing research
9(9)
3 Approaches to information gathering
18(14)
4 Descriptive research and case studies: design and methods
32(13)
5 Experimental research: testing the effects of a variable
45(5)
6 Additional forms of research: qualitative/naturalistic inquiry, historical/philosophical research, Delphi studies
50(11)
7 Ability and profitability studies, grants and contracts, notes on measuring and forecasting demand
61(8)
8 Ethics in research and notes on protecting participants and data
69(6)
PART II Approaches to analyzing and interpreting data
75(166)
9 Introduction to the research scenarios and the data analysis software
77(15)
10 Issues in analyzing data
92(8)
11 Descriptive statistics
100(24)
12 Correlation and reliability
124(23)
13 Regression
147(21)
14 T-tests
168(18)
15 Analysis of variance
186(34)
16 Chi-square tests
220(21)
Afterword 241(4)
Appendix A Survey data: MiLB scenario I 245(4)
Appendix B Survey data: health club scenario II 249(2)
Appendix C Performance data: NFL combine scenario III 251(5)
Index 256
David A. Tobar is Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of Sport Management at Bowling Green State University, USA, where he teaches Research Methods and Sport and Exercise Psychology. He is also the Field Experience Coordinator and supervises sport management internship students. His research interests focus on personality, well-being, and behavior in sport and exercise.

Jacquelyn Cuneen is Professor Emerita of Sport Management at Bowling Green State University, USA, where she taught sport and event promotion and supervised sport management field experience students. Her research foci are sport-related advertising and professional preparation of sport managers. She served in various elected and appointed offices for NASSM, the Sport Marketing Association, and the Ohio Association for HPERD.