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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.
What is it that (mostly) saves sport clubs from bankruptcy?
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.
