Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Managing Sports Organizations is still the most interesting, challenging, and student-focused introduction to sport management currently available. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this book explores every key topic, issue and concept in contemporary sport management, including:

• Understanding management and its relationship to sport
• The new sport management environment
• Decision making
• Strategy
• Organizational design
• Leadership
• Human resource management
• Managing change
• Facility management
• Innovation

This new edition contains expanded coverage of current topics such as corporate responsibility and ethics, social media, career pathways in sport management, and international sport. Each chapter includes a full range of useful features, such as case studies, management exercises, study questions, and definitions of key terms and concepts.