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Complexity and control in team sports : dialectics in contesting human systems / Felix Lebed and Michael Bar-Eli.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lebed., author.
- Series:
- Routledge research in sport and exercise science ; 6.
- Routledge research in sport and exercise science ; 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports sciences.
- Team sports.
- Sports--Management.
- Sports.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (473 p.)
- Edition:
- 1版.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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. Adopting a whol
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Methodological aspects of complexity in team sports
- pt. 2. Individuals in team contests : the complexity point of view
- pt. 3. Complexity in sport teams and organizations
- pt. 4. Applying the complexity approach.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-66114-X
- 0-203-80727-8
- 1-299-31943-2
- 1-136-66115-8
- 9780203807279
- OCLC:
- 831117987
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