Professional team sports and the soft budget constraint
"Exploring why professional team sport clubs are almost always able to survive despite financial mismanagement, inflated player salaries and persistent deficits, this book provides new evidence on how to explain this phenomenon. It looks at the context in which many clubs operate - the soft bud...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Northampton
Edward Elgar Publishing
2022, 2022
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| Series: | New horizons in the economics of sport series
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| Collection: | Edward Elgar eBooks Collection Business & Economics - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Contents: Foreword / Miklós Rosta
- Acknowledgements
- Obituary, jános kornai (1928-2021) / Klaus Nielsen
- 1. Introduction: New research pathways in the soft budget constraint approach / Rasmus K. Storm, Klaus Nielsen, and Zsolt Havran
- 2. Soft budget constraints and institutional logics in European football / Bernt Arne Bertheussen and Harry Arne Solberg
- 3. Hardening the soft budget constraint in professional team sports: Why is it so hard? / Wladimir Andreff
- 4. Budget constraints in French professional football: Contrasting situations / Nadine Dermit-Richard and Aurélien François
- 5. Heterogeneity of budget constraints in Hungarian and Polish football / Karolina Nessel, Zsolt Havran and Tünde Máté
- 6. The soft budget constraint syndrome in Hungarian professional football from a central and eastern European perspective / Zsolt Havran and Krisztina András
- 7. Is there evidence of softness in the budget constraint in football? Some evidence from english clubs / Stefan Szymanski
- 8. Limits of softness in professional team sport clubs / Klaus Nielsen, Christian Gjersing Nielsen and Rasmus K. Storm
- Index
- Includes bibliographical references and index