Sport and Entrepreneurship

Sport and Entrepreneurship combines perspectives derived from business history and sports history, focusing on the important but relatively unexplored relationship of entrepreneurship and sport.

Autorentext

Dilwyn Porter has worked extensively in business history and sports history and is a former editor of Sport in History. His research activities now focus mainly on amateurism and on entrepreneurship in sport. He recently co-authored English Gentlemen and World Soccer: Corinthians, Amateurism and the Global Game (2018) with Chris Bolsmann.

Wray Vamplew is Senior Special Projects Editor for the IJHS and a General Editor of the forthcoming Bloomsbury Cultural History of Sport. His research focuses on economic aspects of sports history.

Klappentext

Sport and Entrepreneurship combines perspectives derived from business history and sports history, focusing on the important but relatively unexplored relationship of entrepreneurship and sport.

Zusammenfassung
Sport and Entrepreneurship combines perspectives derived from business history and sports history, focusing on the important but relatively unexplored relationship of entrepreneurship and sport.

Inhalt

Preface: Three Decades Later: Reflections on Historians, Entrepreneurs, and the Sport Industry Stephen Hardy 1. Entrepreneurship, Sport, and History: An Overview Dilwyn Porter and Wray Vamplew 2. Opportunistic, Parasitic, Strategic, Symbiotic: Entrepreneurship and the Business of Sport Dilwyn Porter 3. The Commodification of Sport: Exploring the Nature of the Sports Product Wray Vamplew 4. The Patricks's Hockey Empire: Cultural Entrepreneurship and the Pacific Coast Hockey Association, 19111924 John Wong 5. Entrepreneurship in an Amateur World: The Gaelic Athletic Association in Ireland Mike Cronin 6. Sport and the New Culture of the 'Second Golden Age': Amsterdam's Sporting Entrepreneurs in the 1880s and 1890s Nick Piercey 7. New Competitions and Contracts: Sports Entrepreneurs and Litigation from a Historical Perspective Steve Greenfield 8. Designing Diana: Female Sports Entrepreneurs and Equestrian Innovation Erica Munkwitz 9. Opportunities for all the Team: Entrepreneurship and the 1966 and 1994 Soccer World Cups Kevin D. Tennent and Alex G. Gillett 10. Social Change, Astro-Turfs, and Entrepreneurial Activities in the Context of German Non-Elite Football: The Example of Lower-Division Club BSV Bielstein Kristian Naglo