Professional Team Sports and the Soft Budget Constraint

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Obituary, János Kornai (1928-2021) -- 1. Introduction: new research pathways in the soft budget constraint approach -- 2. Soft budget constraints and institutional logics in European Football -- 3. Hardening the soft budget constraint in professional team sports: why is it so hard? -- 4. Budget constraints in French professional football: contrasting situations -- 5. Heterogeneity of budget constraints in Hungarian and Polish football -- 6. The soft budget constraint syndrome in Hungarian professional football from a Central and Eastern European perspective -- 7. Is there evidence of softness in the budget constraint in football? Some evidence from English clubs -- 8. Limits of softness in professional team sport clubs -- Index.