Die international typischen Wettbewerbsformate im Individualsport sind Einzelwettkämpfe und -wettkampfserien. Dennoch besteht in Deutschland eine Vielfalt an Ligen auch in Individualsportarten. Timo Zimmermann untersucht erstmals dieses Phänomen und entwickelt ein Anreiz-Beitrags-Modell zu...

Over the past decade, a growing body of academic literature on the economics of road cycling has been amassed. This book is the first volume to bring together a majority of the academic research and knowledge on the economics and management of professional road cycling. Each chapter treats a...

Pascal C. van Overloop stellt ein Modell zur Erklärung der Internationalisierung professioneller Fußballclubs vor, bei dem er im Gegensatz zu bisherigen Ansätzen eine ganzheitliche, strategische Perspektive wählt und daher auch langfristige Entwicklungen sowie behavioristische Faktoren...

This volume deals with the competitive structure of football. It examines the relationship between sporting success and economic variables, the structure of European competitions, financial problems in football, their origins and options for reform, racial discrimination in English football, and...

Starting with a major survey of the economics of sport, this volume involves primarily a comparison of the European and American models of sport, how to restructure leagues to make them more competitive, the analysis of gate-sharing mechanisms, the economic impact of promotion and relegation and...

The constantly growing number of arising referee corruption cases as well as their damage to the integrity of the sports society raises the question of why sports associations started availing themselves of referees as an instrument of contest design in the first place? Cedric Duvinage shows...

The entertainment industry has long been dominated by legendary screenwriter William Goldman’s “Nobody-Knows-Anything” mantra, which argues that success is the result of managerial intuition and instinct. This book builds the case that combining such intuition with data analytics and...

In this book Harold L. Vogel comprehensively examines the business economics and investment aspects of major components of the travel industry, including airlines, hotels, casinos, amusement and theme parks and tourism. The book is designed as an economics-grounded text that uniquely integrates...

Das Buch geht der zentralen Frage nach, was die Gesundheitswirtschaft aus anderen Branchen lernen und wie sie architektonisch neu gestaltet werden kann. Es werden die einzelnen Tätigkeitsbereiche im Gesundheitsmanagement und die einzelnen Akteure wie Krankenhaus, Pharma oder ambulante...