Sport as a Business

1. Sport as a Business: Introduction
Harald Dolles, Sten Söderman

1. Sport Consumers’ Perspective

2. ‘As American as Mom, Apple Pie and Dutch Soccer?’: The Team Identification of Foreign Ajax FC Supporters
Anthony K. Kerr, Narelle F. Smith, Alastair Anderson

3. Decision-making Styles in Purchasing Sport Products: An International Comparison Between American and Korean College Students
Sungwon Bae

4. Travel Time Elasticities in Recreational Sports: Empirical Findings for the Professionalization in Sports Facility Management
Tim Pawlowski, Christoph Breuer, Pamela Wicker

2. Sport Events and Sport Facilities

5. Perceptions of the Impacts of Major Commercial Sport Events
Christopher J. Auld, Kathleen M. Lloyd, Jennifer Rieck

6. Gender, Race and Nationality: An Examination of Print Media Coverage of the 2006 Winter Olympics
Andrea N. Eagleman, Erin L. McNary

7. Enhancing Public Sports Facilities: A Representation of the Global Value
Bernard Augé, Arnaud Pedenon, Alexandre Vernhet

3. Sports Organizations and Governance

8. Sports Organizations, Professionalization and Organizational Conflict: A Review of the Literature
John Schulz

9. International and Professional Dimensions of National Governing Bodies: Insights from the Gaelic Athletic Association
Anne Bourke

10. The Role of Central Brokers and Their Influence on Effectiveness in an Intentionally Created Sports Professionalization Network
Simon G. Martin, Maureen Benson-Rea, Nitha Palakshappa

11. Business Ecosystem Co-evolution: The Ultimate Fighting Championships
Simon Ford, Clive Kerr

12. Learning from Failure: Is Major League Soccer Repeating the Mistakes of the North American Soccer League?
John D. Francis

13. Learning from Success: Implementing a Professional Football League in Japan
Harald Dolles, Sten Söderman

Keywords: Business and Management, International Business, Organization, Management, Popular Science in Sports, International Economics, Behavioral/Experimental Economics