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    Recommended reading, for teachers and students alike – and for stakeholders

    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.

    Mega-handbook on mega-events: The whole is bigger than the sum of its parts

    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.