Tag: Chris Gratton
A comprehensive volume, unique in the field of Olympic and Paralympic studies
Routledge Handbook of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, edited by Dikaia Chatziefstathiou, Borja García & Benoit Séguin (Routledge) presents new research and broad surveys exploring pressing debates, challenges and possible solutions surrounding the modern Olympic and Paralympic Games, across diverse socioeconomic and political contexts. Our reviewer Björn Sandahl contends that the handbook serves as a rich introduction to its field of study and thus should be of great interest to students and the interested general public.
An ambitious introduction to the wide-ranging field of sport management
For her edited volume Contemporary Issues in Sport Management: A Critical Introduction (Sage Publications), Terri Byers have engaged a large number of contributing scholars of sport management, probing central issues in the field. Søren Bennie is our reviewer, and while pointing to a few weak points, his balanced assessment is that it’s a valuable and useful contribution to this research field.
Following the principle of fit?
The Routledge Handbook of Sport Management, edited by Leigh Robinson, Packianathan Chelladurai, Guillaume Bodet & Paul Downward, gets a constructively critical, thoroughly readable, and vastly instructive review by Cecilia Stenling.
Important milestone in the development of sport business research
In his knowledgeable review of Handbook of Research on Sport and Business, an anthology from Edward Elgar edited by Sten Söderman and Harald Dolles, Hans Lundberg cleverly uncovers and balances its weak points as well as its strengths.
Användbar metodbok för idrottsforskare
David Cardell
Linköpings universitet
Chris Gratton & Ian Jones
Research Methods for Sport Studies: Second Edition
304 sidor, hft, with companion website.
Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge 2010
ISBN 978-0-415-49393-2
Idrottsvetenskap är ett flerdisciplinärt fält som involverar olika typer av metoder och angreppssätt. För den student som behöver hjälp att navigera mellan alternativ eller söker konkret stöd i sitt uppsatsskrivande är olika typer av metodböcker läsvärda. Många gånger ger sådana...
Metoder för samhällsvetenskaplig idrottsforskning
Bo Carlsson
EN DEL SAMMANTRÄFFANDEN har säkert en större mening än vad man kan ana, och rör sig inte bara om slump och tillfälligheter. Ett sådant ”meningsfullt” sammanträffande hände under hösten när jag skulle starta baskursen i utredningsmetodik för managementstudenter vid Idrottsvetenskapliga programmet, Malmö högskola. Samma dag som jag höll introduktionsföreläsningen låg Research Methods for Sport Studies i idrottsforum.orgs brevlåda. Det kan inte...