Tag: Giuseppe Telesca

International Sport Business: Current Issues, Future Directions by Hans Westerbeek and Adam Karg offers a contemporary and forward-looking survey of the global sport industry, introducing the key themes, trends and critical issues. Our reviewer is Giuseppe Telesca, and he finds much to learn from, and like about Westerbeek & Karg’s efforts. He does, however, point out the absence of a chapter on the important geopolitical aspects of the globalization of sport and sport business.

Exploring why professional team sport clubs are almost always able to survive despite severe financial problems, Professional Team Sports and the Soft Budget Constraint, edited by Rasmus K. Storm, Klaus Nielsen & Zsolt Havran (Edward Elgar) looks at the soft budget constraint theory, SBC. We asked economics historian Giuseppe Telesca for a review and in his knowledgeable assessment of the book, he concludes that the SBC works well to explain the phenomenon under study in this fascinating book.

The International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics is published by Routledge, and aims to publish articles that address all aspects of sport policy irrespective of academic discipline. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The London Games of 2012, New Labour and the ‘known unknowns’ of the Olympics by Giuseppe Telesca.

Soccer, a.k.a (association) football is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, and aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Looking forward, glancing back; competitive balance and the EPL by Daniel Plumley, Girish Ramchandani, Sarthak Mondal & Rob Wilson.