Sport Management, Innovation and the COVID-19 Crisis

This book looks at how sport, and sports organisations, have had to innovate during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Gözde Ersöz is Associate Professor at the Department of Sport Management at Fenerbahçe University who specializes in sport management, behaviour science, sport, and exercise behaviour. Dr. Ersöz has published 30 research articles and 6 book chapters, and also presented more than 100 papers in scientific congress. Dr. Ersöz is the co-editor of the Journal of Sport and Social Sciences and The Journal of Eurasia Sport Sciences Medicine. She also serves on the editorial board of many journals published in the fields of Sport and Exercise Psychology, Sport Sciences and Recreation. Dr. Ersöz has served on the committees and boards of institutions and organizations such as the Basketball Federation, the Triathlon Federation, the Exercise and Sports Psychology Association, the Sports Sciences Association, and the Sports and Physical Activity Association for Women. Meltem Ince Yenilmez is Professor in the Department of Economics at Izmir Democracy University, Turkey, specializing in economics of gender and labour economics. She was a Visiting Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley between 2014 and 2015 and was at Georg-Universität-Gottingen during the summer school of 2015-2016. She is currently a visiting researcher at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Visiting Faculty at IIM Rohtak, India and a Visiting Professor at University of Tohoku, Japan. She is an economist focused on gender, feminist theory, discrimination and care work. She has four books published by Routledge and Palgrave, and her next book projects income equality, cyberfeminism and women's participation in sports market.

1. Innovation in Physical Activity and Exercise during the Covid-19 Catastrophe, 2. The Economic Impacts of Coronavirus and Innovation in Sports, 3. Sports Communication in COVID-19 Period, 4. Live Sports Consumption: New Horizons, 5. COVID - 19 and Youth Sports: Psychological, Developmental and Economic Impacts, 6. Crisis Management in Sports Events: Solutions from the Perspective of Covid-19, 7. Digitalization of Recreation and Sports in the COVID-19 Pandemy Period and Social Identity of ePlayers: Esports as Autochthonous Worlds in Metaverse, 8. Innovation in Sport Competitions during the Covid-19 Era, 9. Economic Impacts of COVID-19 on Sports Sector: A Review for the Developments about Sports Events, Audience and Emerging Sectoral Trends, 10. The Effect of the Covid 19 and Innovation on World Sports Tourism.