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Sport Law

A Managerial Approach

Theory in Sport Management: Insights and Applications aims to serve as a comprehensive resource for understanding, applying, evaluating, and developing theory in sport management.Recognizing theory as the foundation of scholarly inquiry, evidence-based practice, and effective teaching, the book provides readers with the theoretical foundations and practical guidance needed to engage with theory more effectively. Designed for students, scholars, educators, and practitioners, the book brings together 45 chapters authored by leading sport management scholars from around the world. Each chapter examines a major theory through a consistent structure that includes an overview of the theory, its application across disciplines, its use within sport management, and recommendations for future research and practice. The Recommendation section that concludes each chapter serves as a practical guide for readers seeking the theory most relevant to their work, pointing toward typical applications and promising directions while presenting each theory in its full nuance by the contributor who knows it best. The book demonstrates how theory can be used to explain sport phenomena, guide research, inform teaching, support decision-making, advance scholarship, and shape future developments in the field.As one of the most comprehensive theory-focused volumes in sport management, this edited collection offers an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand and leverage theory in sport.

Insights and Applications

Theory in Sport Management

Understand and learn to respond to the global and local crises shaping the tourism industry. Crisis Management in Tourism by Kyriaki Glyptou is a comprehensive textbook designed for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students studying tourism, hospitality and event management. Aligned with modules on crisis management and sustainable tourism, it provides a structured framework for understanding how crises impact destinations, organizations and various stakeholders. Taking a multidimensional approach, this textbook explores why traditional crisis management models often fail in high-stakes tourism contexts. This textbook: -Examines nine interconnected dimensions in managing a crisis response: the legal, operational, financial, communication, strategic, reputational, political, ethical and human factors -Explores the contemporary challenges reshaping the industry, including climate change, geopolitical instability and community resistance to tourism -Includes real-world examples from VisitBritain, the Greek National Tourism Organization, TUI and Jet2, alongside crisis events such as the 2019 Australia wildfires &gt;This textbook equips students with the knowledge and practical skills needed to navigate crises, make decisions in dynamic, uncertain environments and build resilience in a rapidly changing global tourism industry.

Principles and Practices for Strategic and Resilient Planning

Crisis Management in Tourism

Environmental Intelligence in Sustainable Hospitality Operations provides a comprehensive, accessible, and data-led approach for achieving sustainability through the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) across hospitality operations.The volume explains how smart sensors, real-time environmental monitoring, predictive analytics, and intelligent automation can optimize energy and water consumption, reduce food and material waste, enhance indoor air quality, and support carbon reduction strategies in hotels, resorts, restaurants, and allied tourism services. Chapters introduce practical frameworks for designing and implementing smart sustainable systems, including digital dashboards, AI-enabled decision models, and performance indicators aligned with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) requirements, supported with international applied case studies throughout. The book also addresses critical implementation issues such as data management, ethics, cybersecurity, investment justification, and organizational readiness.By combining environmental science with hospitality innovation, this innovative and timely book offers a comprehensive guide for researchers, students, industry professionals, and policymakers seeking scalable pathways toward low-carbon, resource-efficient, and resilient hospitality operations.

AI and The Internet of Things Implications

Environmental Intelligence in Sustainable Hospitality Operations

Practical courage frameworks for auditors navigating AI and regulatory pressure&nbsp; Auditing with Courage: Reimagining Assurance and Building Trust in the Age of AI, written by PCAOB Board Member Christina Ho, combines memoir with actionable guidance for auditors facing today's most difficult professional challenges. Ho draws on lived experience dissenting from within the system to show auditors how to stand firm when it matters most.&nbsp; Auditing with Courage provides practical frameworks for speaking up at every career stage, grounded in Ho's journey from Tiananmen Square to confronting U.S. Senators. The book addresses the growing need for independent AI assurance, explaining why auditors are uniquely positioned to provide it and how principled courage strengthens both the profession and public trust. Real-world scenarios cover AI-driven risk assessments and pressure to approve unsafe systems.&nbsp; Readers will also find:&nbsp; <ul> <li>Courage frameworks that move beyond abstract ethics to audit-specific guidance for challenging management decisions and questioning AI outputs&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Real-world scenarios addressing AI-driven risk assessments and the regulatory uncertainties surrounding emerging technologies&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Insights from an insider who dissented from within the system rather than leaving, offering a perspective distinct from whistleblower narratives&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Practical strategies for building independent AI assurance capabilities as AI systems increasingly influence credit approvals, insurance pricing, and investments&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Guidance for auditors at every career stage on how to speak up when pressured to approve systems that may cause harm&nbsp;</li> </ul> Auditing with Courage is written for external auditors, internal auditors, government auditors, accounting engineers, and accounting students who need concrete guidance for exercising professional courage in technically complex situations. Ho's firsthand experience at the highest levels of audit oversight makes this an unmatched resource for professionals committed to protecting investors and public trust.&nbsp;

Reimagining Assurance and Building Trust in the Age of AI

Auditing with Courage

Security, Audit and Leadership Series

Organizational Debt and AI Failure: Why Your AI Project Fails challenges the assumption that unsuccessful artificial intelligence initiatives are primarily caused by weak models, insufficient computing power, or poor technology choices. Instead, Scott Andersen argues that AI often fails because it is introduced into organizations carrying years of unresolved structural debt.The book presents a practical framework for identifying and managing five interconnected forms of organizational debt: technical, data, personnel, security, and embedded debt. Technical debt creates fragile architectures and brittle integrations. Data debt undermines meaning, lineage, context, and trust. Personnel debt appears through skill gaps, unclear responsibilities, burnout, and dependence on a few critical individuals. Security debt weakens identity, governance, assurance, and accountability. Embedded debt connects them through undocumented assumptions, informal processes, workarounds, and hidden dependencies.AI does not necessarily create these weaknesses-it exposes and accelerates them. Processes that remained stable through human judgment and manual intervention can collapse when automated systems begin operating continuously and at machine speed. What appeared to be resilience may have depended on people quietly compensating for organizational problems.Drawing on decades of enterprise architecture and technology experience, Andersen explains why promising pilots become trapped in "pilot purgatory," why local improvements can increase systemwide risk, and why failures frequently emerge at the seams between technologies, teams, data, and decision authorities. He introduces practical concepts and measures-including Total AI Debt Exposure and Total AI Operational Pressure-to help leaders make risk visible and actionable.This book is written for executives, architects, technology leaders, security professionals, data teams, program managers, and organizations preparing to scale AI. Its central message is direct: successful AI transformation does not begin with adoption. It begins with organizational truth. By identifying, measuring, and governing the debt already present, organizations can move beyond experimentation and build AI systems that achieve delivery, adoption, and sustained operational value.

Why your AI projects fail

Organizational Debt

Sport Management Series

Now available in a fully revised and updated seventh edition, Sport Management: Principles and Applications tells you everything you need to know about the contemporary sport industry. Covering both the professional and nonprofit sectors, and with more international material than any other introductory sport management textbook, it focuses on core management principles and their application in a sporting context, highlighting the unique challenges of a career in sport management. The book covers all the key functional areas of sport management, including strategic planning, human resources, leadership and governance, marketing and sponsorship, the media, sport policy, sport law, and digital business. This seventh edition includes expanded coverage of key contemporary issues, including the impact of AI as well as ethics and DEI, and features a new chapter focused on sport development. Containing useful features throughout, including conceptual overviews, guides to further reading, links to important websites, study questions, and up-to-date case studies showing how theory works in the real world, this is an ideal textbook for first- and second-year students in sport management degree programs and for business students seeking an overview of applied sport management principles. Ancillary material includes summary slides, case diagnostics and teaching notes for lecturers, plus a test bank.

Principles and Applications

Sport Management

The Business of Youth Sport is the first book to fully explore the business, commercial, and managerial aspects of youth sport. Introducing key concepts and best practice, the book adds a new layer to our understanding of this growing sector of the contemporary sport industry.The book examines the history, development, structure, and governance of the youth sport sector and looks at how youth sport systems and policy differ around the world. It takes a deep dive into delivery models and sectors within youth sport and considers how organizational theory can help us to better understand the business of youth sport. The book also guides the reader through every key functional aspect of the management of youth sport, from funding, finance, and facilities to events, marketing, technology, and performance management.With case studies, practical examples, interviews with practitioners, and useful features such as review questions included in every chapter, this is an essential textbook for any course on the business of youth sport and invaluable reading for any general course on sport business and management.The textbook features comprehensive instructor resources including trivia games, exam questions, and an instructor's guide. Also available is a virtual simulation game that immerses students in the experience of managing a youth sport organization.

The Business of Youth Sport

Build strategic and technological insight at the intersection of finance and innovation. Principles of Fintech by Alex Zarifis is a practical textbook designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students in business and financial management. Closely aligned with modules in Fintech, digital finance and financial innovation, it equips learners with the knowledge and applied frameworks needed to understand, evaluate and implement financial technologies across contemporary systems. This textbook explores the core technologies and business models shaping the Fintech landscape, from generative AI and blockchain to digital payments, InsurTech and WealthTech. Students are guided through how fintech solutions are developed, implemented and scaled, while critically assessing issues of ethics, governance, regulation and risk management. This textbook includes: - Clear learning objectives and summaries to frame each chapter and consolidate understanding - Applied frameworks linking theory to financial practice - Reflective questions and activities to encourage deeper analysis - Real-world examples to strengthen critical evaluation With its balanced integration of theory, application and critical reflection, Principles of Fintech prepares students to contribute to the evolving world of digital finance and financial innovation.

Financial Technology, Business Models and Strategic Innovation

Principles of Fintech

The Hotel Development and Management Guide is an accessible, global, end-to-end reference book that illustrates how hotel concepts are conceived, financed, branded, operated and governed, connecting strategy, finance and department-level operations into one integrated framework.Readers gain a clear, decision-grade understanding of how hotel value is created and sustained across the full lifecycle. The book integrates feasibility, brand and operator strategy, departmental operations, asset management, and emerging forces such as AI and ESG, using practical frameworks, checklists, and financially grounded analysis to support real-world decision-making. Case studies are integrated throughout from hotel owners around the world to showcase real life situations and issues.This invaluable text offers an integrated, one stop professional-level reference for hotel owners and investors, as well as upper-level undergraduate, postgraduate, MBA and executive-education students studying hospitality management and hotel operations management.

The Hotel Development and Management Guide

From Concept to Realization

Project Economics Under Uncertainty

Sport Law

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