International Sport Management Hardcover - 2011

Ming Li, EdD, is professor in sports administration and chair of the department of sports administration in the College of Business at Ohio University, USA. Li received his doctorate in sport administration from the University of Kansas. His research interests are in financial and economic aspects of sport and management of sport business in a global context. Li is a former president of the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM) and currently is serving as commissioner of the Commission on Sport Management Accreditation (COSMA). He is a member on the editorial board of the Journal of Sport Management and Sport Marketing Quarterly and has coauthored two books in sport management. He is guest professor of six institutions in China, including the Central University of Finance and Economics and Tianjin University of Sport.

Li served as an Olympic envoy for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. He also served as a consultant for the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games Organizing Committee.

Eric W. MacIntosh, PhD, is an assistant professor in the faculty of health sciences, School of Human Kinetics at the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Previously, he was assistant professor at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania.

MacIntosh earned his doctorate in kinesiology from the University of Western Ontario with a specialization in sport management. His research focuses on organizational culture theory, and he is a frequent consultant to sport organizations regarding organizational culture. He has presented his research at sport management conferences both national and internationally and has been published in sport management journals.

MacIntosh serves as the division chair of sport and tourism for the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada and is a member of the North American Society for Sport Management. He is the former student president of the North American Society for Sport Management.

In his free time, he enjoys hockey, exercise, and adventure racing. MacIntosh resides in Orleans, Ontario, Canada.Gonzalo Bravo, PhD, is an assistant professor of sport management at West Virginia University, USA. A native of Santiago, Chile, Bravo completed a master's degree in sport administration from Penn State University and a PhD in sport management from Ohio State University. Before joining academia, he worked as sport director in a large sport organization in Chile.

His research interests focus on issues in organizational behavior and sport management as an academic discipline. His work has been published in the International Journal of Sport Marketing and Sponsorship, Sport Management EducationJournal, and the Journal of Sport Management. He has presented invited lectures and keynote speeches in Brazil, Chile, China, Japan, Mexico, and Venezuela.

Bravo is member of the North American Society for Sport Management and the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport. He also serves as the vice president for the Latin American Association for Sport Management and scientific director for the Latin American Association for Socio-Cultural Studies in Sport.