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Sport - in particular high-performance sport - is a fascination that is used as a platform for societal concerns. This is the base for different interests in active and passive sports and the state's interest in top-class sport. In most countries, top-class sport is a national concern: states train their athletes in national training centres, support their sports associations in international competitions or promote applications for major sporting events.The articles in this volume provide a well-founded insight into the organisation of high-performance sport and show the different paths of selected countries.

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This book provides a road-map to successful implementation of strategic outsourcing programmes, providing down-to-earth approaches to outsourcing decision making and programme management, based on a grass-roots understanding. A practitioner-focused book for business leaders and managers providing a holistic view of strategic outsourcing, covering the three essential pillars of success: risks, rewards and relationships. The author shows how business leaders can transform organisational business models, structures and mind-sets, taking the reader on a journey through the book's fifteen chapters, helping the reader truly grasp: the drivers for change as a result of globalisation and convergence and their impact on organisational strategies; how outsourcing can transform the various processes and functions of an organisation; the impact outsourcing is having on various industry vertical sectors; the eight foundations of successful strategic outsourcing programmes, which when combined with strategic decision-making knowledge, guarantees that organisations embarking on the strategic outsourcing journey, derive the transformational benefits they seek.

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This book provides basic management knowledge in a clearly structured way. Fundamental aspects of management are described, on the basis of which a model of the enterprise is outlined. This allows readers to find their way around easily, to reflect, then to set new approaches in context and examine them in a critical light. The practical examples, the interpretation questions, and the short case studies at the end of the chapters facilitate the transition from theory to practice. Contents Basic Models of the Enterprise System-Based Approach and Cybernetics Management Techniques Strategy - Thinking and Acting Organization - Structure follows Strategy Corporate Culture - A Competitive Advantage Corporate Development through Innovation   Target Groups Students and lecturers of Economics (Bachelor and Master), in particular those with a focus on leadership, entrepreneurship, and innovation management Students and lecturers of the Engineering Sciences Participants in management training courses for non-economists Executives and Managers   Author Prof. PhD Rico J. Baldegger is Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the School of Business Administration in Fribourg (Switzerland). His research activities concentrate on innovative start-ups, the entrepreneurial behaviour of individuals and organisations as well as the phenomenon of rapid-growth companies. He has published several books and articles and has been the manager of a business for company development.

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