Written by European professors and focusing on the specificities of European sport, When Sport Meets Business analyses the growing commercialisation of professional sport in recent years and explains how it has developed into a major global industry. Structured into four sections, the book...

pt. 1. Economics and other social sciences : relationships and boundaries -- pt. 2. New light on rationality, social relations and the environment -- pt. 3. Flexibility, routines and production in economics and social sciences.

Bringing together eleven new studies on institutional change, this book includes new theoretical contributions as well as applications of theories of institutional change in studies of organizational change, welfare state reform, EU institutions, post-communist transformation and third-world...

The concept of institutions has become increasingly important in the analysis of both social cohesion and economic change. Institutions and Economic Change reflects the shift of perspective from the allocation of scarce resources to the creation, distribution and use of new resources, especially...