OLYMPICS - Global Sports in the Area of Tension between Organisational National and Supranational Forces

Scientific Study from the year 2012 in the subject Health - Sport - Sport Economics Sport Management language: English abstract: This study looks at global sports and more specifically at global soccer from historical cultural economic social strategic/tactical and civilization perspectives. Sports as a global management phenomenon and practice are contextualized in a global transcultural management framework. Its aim is the optimum use of cultural diversity and to create awareness of divisive dimensions in global sports while it offers a consistenet approach to the integration of divisive tendencies in the global world of sports. This will in turn sustainably affect other domains of the globalizing world.