Complexity and Control in Team Sports: Dialectics in Contesting Human Systems

by Michael Bar-Eli and Felix Lebed

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415672880
• ISBN13: 9780415672887
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"