Sport Public Relations and Communication (Paperback)

This book provides a concise guide to how public relations and communications strategies and principles can be applied to sport management and marketing issues and problems. Sports Marketing is a rapidly developing sector with universities offering sports marketing and increasing numbers of specialised Sports Public Relations and Sport Communication degrees. Public relations and communication strategies is one area where sport marketing is underdeveloped, generic marketing literature misses the nuances and special features of sport as they are not given sufficient focus. This book fills a significant gap in the public relations and communications literature by customising a discussion that is directly relevant to the sport management student. Case studies will be used throughout to provide practical applications of public relations and communications approaches within the sport management/marketing context providing a link between theory and practice. They will present public relation and communications strategies and principles that have been used in variety of sport management/marketing settings. Moreover, each case study provides the reader with research probes at the end of each case study. The research probes for each case study allow the reader to reflect on the principles applied, strategies used and their applicability to the sport setting. Examples used will draw from North American, United Kingdom, European and Australian/NZ to give the text global appeal and applicability. Review and Research Questions provide the reader with focusing questions related to the principles and frameworks presented, as well as prompting the reader to formulate and articulate defensible arguments in relation to their own public relations and communications strategies. Making strong links between theory and practice is an overarching goal of the approach advocated in this book. In short, this book fills the current market need by discussi

General

Imprint:	Elsevier Science Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Sports Marketing Series
Release date:	February 2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	Maria Hopwood • Paul Kitchin • James Skinner
Dimensions:	246 x 189 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	282
ISBN-13:	978-1-85617-615-6
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Sales & marketing > Public relations Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Service industries > Sport & leisure industries
LSN:	1-85617-615-0
Barcode:	9781856176156

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