Tag: Jean-Loup Chappelet

Stakeholder Analysis and Sport Organisations, edited by Anna-Maria Strittmatter, Josef Fahlén & Barrie Houlihan (Routledge), provides a critical examination of the origins and development of stakeholder theory within sport management research. Thomas Persson’s review focuses on three of the contributions, and his overall assessment, based on the whole anthology, is that this is a book well worth reading that also is suitable as a course book.

The Research Handbook on Major Sporting Events, edited by Harry Arne Solberg, Rasmus K. Storm and Kamilla Swart (Edward Elgar) examines the hosting of major sporting events and the impacts they can have on stakeholders. Christian Tolstrup Jensen has read an impressive compilation of scientific studies in the field of major sport event research that gives the initiated reader a useful and nuanced overview of the state-of-the-art in event studies, its understudied areas and a who-is-who in the field.

The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The Institutional Development of the Philippine Olympic Movement and the Current Rise of Its Olympic Athletes by Dennis V. Blanco.

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.

Academics in various disciplines are writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: When women surf the world’s biggest waves: breaking gender barriers by Anne Schmitt & Anaïs Bohuon.

By placing scholars from various disciplines side-by-side on the common topic of the Olympic Games, JOS (available in both print and electronic format and marketed to a global scholarly audience) aims to promote and encourage a multi-disciplinary understanding of the Olympic Movement. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The Professionalization of the International Olympic Committee Administration by Jean-Loup Chappelet.

The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The 1952 and 1994 Olympic Flames: Norway’s Quest for Winter Olympic Identity by Matti Goksøyr & Gaute Heyerdahl (open access).

Academics in various disciplines are writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The significance of ‘situated learning’ for doping in an elite sports community: an interview study of AAS-using powerlifters by David Hoff (open access).

The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The Emergence of the Swedish Horse-Riding School from the Mid-Twentieth Century by Susanna Hedenborg, Gabriella Torell Palmquist & Annika Rosén.

The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Evolution of Professional Football Management in the People’s Republic of China from 1992 to 2016 by Zhaoyu Gao & Jean-Loup Chappelet.