Venturing Beyond the Marathon: The Entrepreneurship of Ultrarunning and the IAU World Cup in Korea

Terjesen, Siri

doi:10.1057/abm.2008.2

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“…Entrepreneurship can be seen as a result of a team of individuals that have a willingness to expand their organizational efforts (Terjesen 2008). The seminal work of Schumpeter (1965) provides one of the first definitions of entrepreneurship as individuals who exploit market opportunity through organizational or technical innovation.…”

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Sport-based entrepreneurship: towards a new theory of entrepreneurship and sport management

2010

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The entrepreneurship and sport management disciplines have grown significantly in the past decade. Sport is an entrepreneurial process as innovation and change are key elements of sport. The aim of this paper is to develop a theory of entrepreneurship in sports management by investigating the relationship between entrepreneurship and sport. The rapidly growing and developing sport marketing discipline provides a basis in which to understand how entrepreneurship occurs through innovation, proactiveness and risk taking activities. This paper discusses the connection between the entrepreneurship and sports management fields and argues that there needs to be more integration with the two fields of study and traditional entrepreneurship theory. A theory of sport-based entrepreneurship is developed and different types of entrepreneurship that occur in sports management are examined. Suggestions for future research and implications for practitioners are discussed.

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2010

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“…Given that opportunities are important during times of economic crises, entrepreneurship can help spur the process of economic development (Drucker, 1995). efforts in the sports fi eld (Terjesen, 2008). The most important element of entrepreneurial activity identifi ed in most entrepreneurship literature is innovation (Hitt, Ireland, Camp, & Sexton, 2001).…”

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Developing a theory of sport-based entrepreneurship

Ratten

2010

Journal of Management & Organization

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Entrepreneurship is an integral part of sport but less is known about how different types of entrepreneurship facilitate innovation. The aim of this paper is to develop a theory of sports-based entrepreneurship that incorporates different sub-categories of entrepreneurship such as social, technological and international. Specifically, the article connects the entrepreneurship and sport management literatures by proposing a theory of sport-based entrepreneurship, which can be used as a theoretical framework for future research. In addition, the paper provides a unique insight for sports practitioners and public policy planners wanting to focus on entrepreneurial ways to manage sport-based organizations.

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“…The generic form of the evolutionary economic approach is that the origin of a new sportlike the origin of a new market, or industryis a consequence of entrepreneurial action: a sports entrepreneur. Stephen Hardy (1986) suggests that historians should see sports in terms of entrepreneurial founders and of the development of the sport as akin to an Schumpeterian technological trajectory (Chacar and Hesterly, 2004;Füller et al, 2007;Terjesen, 2008).…”

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Toward a new (evolutionary) economics of sports

Potts

Thomas

2018

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a new classification of rules-driven sports and technology-driven sports that suggests different models of how sports develop. This paper outlines some key aspects of an evolutionary view of sports economics research and, separately, an institutional view of sports economic research. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a conceptual/theoretical piece rather than an empirical analysis of a research question. The authors scaffold a proposed analytic framework that is a combination of evolutionary economics and new institutional economics. Findings A new dynamic approach to the study of sports industries is called for. The authors observe that sports and sports industries exhibit dynamic qualities but in the study of sports there is no analogue of “industrial dynamics” as in economics. What is missing is the field of “evolutionary sports dynamics.” To build this, the authors frame a new evolutionary approach to the study of the sports economy and sports industries – by examining the evolution of sports, their industries, and the complex industrial ecosystems they operate in, through the lens of institutional and evolutionary economics. Originality/value The paper establishes a theoretical basis for a “New Economics of Sports” – as a shift in the types of questions that sports economics seeks to answer. These are away from “sports statics” – as a branch of applied economics of industrial organization and optimal allocation of sports resources (ala Rottenberg, 1956; Neale, 1964) – and toward concern with the economics of “sports dynamics.” The prime questions are less with the optimal organization of existing sports, and more toward understanding the origin of new sports and the evolutionary life cycles of sports.

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Venturing Beyond the Marathon: The Entrepreneurship of Ultrarunning and the IAU World Cup in Korea

Cited by 10 publications

References 18 publications

Sport-based entrepreneurship: towards a new theory of entrepreneurship and sport management

Sport-based entrepreneurship: towards a new theory of entrepreneurship and sport management

Developing a theory of sport-based entrepreneurship

Toward a new (evolutionary) economics of sports

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