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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826555003321

Autore

Lebed Felix

Titolo

Complexity and control in team sports : dialectics in contesting human systems / / Felix Lebed and Michael Bar-Eli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-66114-X

0-203-80727-8

1-299-31943-2

1-136-66115-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (473 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in sport and exercise science ; ; 6

Altri autori (Persone)

Bar-EliMichael

Disciplina

796.06/9

Soggetti

Sports sciences

Team sports

Sports - Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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