Who Owns Football?: Models of Football Governance and Management in International Sport
Автор: [автор не указан] Год: 2012 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 184 ISBN: 0415661242 The commercialization of sport since the 1990s has had a number of consequences. The market forces that have defined commercialization, notably pay-per-view television, whilst initially welcomed as important new sources of revenue, have also had the unanticipated consequences of de-stabilizing many sporting competitions and institutions, undermining the financial future of clubs in their traditional role as key social and cultural institutions. This has been manifested in the paradox of chronic financial loss-making amongst professional sportsa?? clubs in an era of exponential revenue growth, a trend exemplified by the experience of Italya??s Series A and the English Premier League a?? both cases examined in detail in this book. But, at the same time, some traditional sporting organizations have sought with some success, to chart a middle way, retaining traditional sporting movement objectives whilst also embracing a form of commercialism. The Gaelic Athletic Association in...
