Complexity and control in team sports : dialectics in contesting human systems /
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 orga...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
[2013]
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| Series: | Routledge research in sport and exercise science.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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, if not impossible, to find common behavioural playing regularities or universal pedagogies for controlling those activities. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (473 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781136661150 1136661158 |