Overview
- Explains how each of the four major leagues got to where they are today, and what competitive threats and opportunities they face as they move forward
- Integrates theories and concepts from various disciplines, and stresses that a complete understanding of the issues requires a multi-disciplinary perspective
- Illustrates real-world applications of strategic management principles using an industry (professional sport) that is of interest to a wide sector of the population
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Sports Economics, Management and Policy (SEMP, volume 5)
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Table of contents(8 chapters)
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Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Sport Management, University of Massachusetts Isenberg School of Management, Amherst, USA
Neil Longley
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: An Absence of Competition
Book Subtitle: The Sustained Competitive Advantage of the Monopoly Sports Leagues
Authors: Neil Longley
Series Title: Sports Economics, Management and Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9485-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-9484-3Published: 12 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4335-7Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-9485-0Published: 11 December 2013
Series ISSN: 2191-298X
Series E-ISSN: 2191-2998
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 119
Topics: Economics, general, Management, Media Management