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Complexity and Control in Team Sports - Dialectics in contesting human systems (Paperback)
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Complexity and Control in Team Sports - Dialectics in contesting human systems (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Sport and Exercise Science
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Complexity and Control in Team Sports is the first book to apply
complex systems theory to 'soccer-like' team games (including
basketball, handball and hockey) and to present a framework for
understanding and managing the elite sports team as a multi-level
complex system. Conventional organizational studies have tended to
define team sports as a set of highly heterogeneous physical,
mental and cognitive activities within which it is difficult, if
not impossible, to find common behavioural playing regularities or
universal pedagogies for controlling those activities. Adopting a
whole system approach, and exploring the concepts of control,
regulation and self-organization, this book argues that it is
possible for coaches, managers and psychologists to develop a
better understanding of how a complex system works, and therefore,
to more successfully manage and influence a team's performance.
This book draws on literature from the biological, behavioural and
social sciences, including, psychology, sociology and sports
performance analysis, to develop a detailed, interdisciplinary and
multi-level picture of the elite sports team. It analyzes behaviour
across five inter-connected levels: the team as a 'managed
institution'; coaching staff controlling players via cybernetic
flows; the team as a playing unit; the individual player as a
complex dynamic system expressed through behaviour; and a player's
complex physiological/biological system. Drawing these together,
the book throws fascinating new light on the elite sports team and
will be useful reading for all students, researchers or
professionals with an interest in sport psychology, sport
management, sport coaching, sport performance analysis or complex
systems theory.
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