Tag: Klaus Nielsen

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.

Today, the Danish Institute for Sports Studies releases a report by Rasmus K. Storm and Klaus Nielsen, commissioned by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, that explores the decline of the Finnish elite sports system. The report shows that the Finnish system is challenged by an inability to set goals and pursue them for both cultural and structural reasons.

SSSF, a multidisciplinary social sciences sport study journal, welcomes articles that deal with sport and social change and social stability in a wide sense, articles about the profound and comprehensive processes affecting sports such as professionalization, globalization, commercialization, urbanization, technologization, medicalization and juridification.

A welcome attempt at creating a European textbook in sport management, writes Hans Lundberg in his review of When Sport Meets Business: Capabilities, Challenges, Critiques, edited by Ulrik Wagner, Rasmus K. Storm & Klaus Nielsen (Sage Publications). Still, our esteemed reviewer tempers his approbation with specific advice for future improvement.

Svenska Idrottshistoriska Föreningens (SVIF)  årsskrift, Idrott, Historia & Samhälle (IHS), har utkommit med årets nummer. Flera nyheter bjuds man, om man som denne redaktör är medlem i SVIF och får numret som en del av medlemskapet, på i den nya utgåvan. Redaktionen, till att börja med, är ny. Johan Norberg och Leif Yttergren har fått lämna plats åt Paul Sjöblom och Helena...