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Although women and girls participate in sport in greater numbers than ever before there has been no significant increase in women leading sport organizations. This book takes an international, evidence-based perspective in examining women in sport leadership and offers future directions for scholars and practitioners. It argues that while positional leadership is crucial, some women may choose to exercise leadership in non-positional ways, challenging readers to consider their personal values and passions. The book explores the opportunities and challenges women face while exercising leadership in sport organizations, and evaluates leadership development practices for women in sport.

The Rio Olympics and FIFA World Cup in Brazil highlight the profound importance of sport in Latin America. This book is the first to offer a broad survey of the way that sport is managed, governed and organized across the Latin American region, drawing on cutting-edge contemporary scholarship in management, policy, sociology and history. The book explores key themes in Latin American sport, including the role of public institutions; the relationship between sport policy and political regimes; the structure and significance of national governing bodies and professional leagues; the impact of sporting mega-events, and the management and governance of soccer, the dominant sport in the region

This book explores elite youth sport policy and management across eighteen countries, examining issues such as why elite youth sport events have become more common; the attitude of selected stakeholders towards the growth in elite youth sport; how the interests of young elite athletes are protected; and how elite development systems are adjusted to cater for the requirements of youth athletes.

The sports agent has become a significant figure in contemporary sports business. Drawing on extensive empirical research into football around the world, this book explains what agents do, how their role has changed, why this is important for future sport business, and how understanding the role of the agent can help us understand labour markets and labour relations in an increasingly globalised sports industry. Focusing on the major European football leagues but also covering the MLS, smaller European leagues, South America, and the Far East, this book goes further than any other in illuminating an important but under-researched aspect of contemporary sport business.

This book takes an international, evidence-based perspective in examining women in sport leadership and offers future directions for scholars and practitioners.

Emerging Technologies in Sport surveys the next generation of emerging technologies and considers how sport managers, governing bodies and officials can meet the challenges that they pose for sport competition, participation and events.

This book represents an alternative perspective on international elite sport systems. It focusses on the embedded multi-level nature of leadership, and the scope that this might give for degrees of leadership autonomy and discretion.