Value Creation and Sport Management

Review of the hardback: 'As a rapidly growing, increasingly lucrative industry, sport needs and deserves to become the focus for more coherent and systematic academic analyses. With this book, the industry gets exactly this; the authors have brought a new level of sophistication to our understanding of the sport industry, casting new light on many of the most important phenomena that we are now witnessing across sport.' Simon Chadwick, Chair in Sport Business Strategy and Marketing Director of Centre for the International Business of Sport (CIBS), Coventry University Business School, UK

• List of figures; List of tables; Foreword; Introduction; 1. The virtuous circle of value creation in the sports industry; Annex: virtuous circle unleashed: the case of Valencia; 2. Value creation and performance criteria for sport entities; 3. National context and profit strategy of the sport entity: how to overcome the national borders of the sport entities?; 4. Value creation in two of the most prestigious Spanish football clubs: Real Madrid CF and FC Barcelona, period 2000–6; 5. The proto-image of Real Madrid - implications for marketing and management; 6. Value creation from the organizational structure of a sports entity; Index.