{"product_id":"sport-management-cultures-vassil-girginov-9780415754873","title":"Sport Management Cultures","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the first book to address the link between culture and sport management. The aim is to demonstrate that culture profoundly affects how we research, teach and practice sport management. The book engages with the concept of culture both as an abstract analytical category and specific beliefs and practices. It recognizes that a single best way of managing does not exist; that the applicability of management theories may stop at national boundaries; and that fundamental cultural values act as a strong determinant to managerial ideology and practice. Culture makes the study of sport management interesting because it challenges many taken-for-granted assumptions about management, yet it reinforces our belief in the existence of common management problems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book offers a comprehensive review of the conceptualisations of culture and its relation with sport management by examining a range of issues: the emergence of multiculturalism as a policy issue; the impact of commonly shared cultural values within the fitness industry on managers and organisations behaviour; building cultural bridges in community sport organisations; cultural meanings attached to the consumption of Olympic merchandise, and culturally-informed interpretation through a reflective analysis of sport management texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book was published as a special issue of \u003cem\u003eEuropean Sport Management Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vassil Girginov\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415754879\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415754873\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/24\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 138\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.60h x 7.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Vassil Girginov","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48112898769151,"sku":"9780415754873","price":46.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_99b6a502-f6d5-4f11-89f8-69b81d7e08cc.jpg?v=1769611688","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sport-management-cultures-vassil-girginov-9780415754873","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}