Managing Elite Sport Systems

Svein S. Andersen is a professor of organization studies at BI Norwegian Business School, and adjunct professor at the Centre for Training and Performance, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. He has been director for Centre for EU Research, University of Oslo, and chair of the Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour at Norwegian Business School Lars Tore Ronglan is associate professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences and currently vice rector at the same institution. He has been Head of Research at the Centre of Training and Performance in Oslo and was recently elected as vice rector at Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. Ronglan has been assistant coach for the Norwegian national handball team, and has been involved as a consultant in various projects with the Handball Association and also the Norwegian elite sport organization Olympiatoppen Barrie Houlihan is Professor of Sport Policy in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University, UK and also Visiting Professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo. His research interests include the domestic and international policy processes for sport. He has a particular interest in sports development, the diplomatic use of sport, and drug abuse by athletes

Part 1: How different systems work 1. Systems and the development of elite athletes 2. ‘Big brother’ and caring sister: Performance management and the athlete’s entourage 3. Modernisation and elite sport development in England and the United Kingdom: talent identification and coach development 4. The ecology of talent development in the Nordic elite sport model 5. Resources and Capabilities? Developing Malaysian National Sport Associations Part 2: Delivering athlete support 6. Managing core processes in elite athlete development: Norwegian cross country skiing 7. Talent identification and development in Germany – state of play and current tasks 8. Training environments – more than bricks and mortar 9. Integrating the micro and meso-level approaches to athlete development and success 10. Performance leadership and management in elite sport: Current status and future directions 11. Managing heterogeneity and complexity