Böcker av Frank P. Jozsa

This book examines the development of the NBA and its clubs, how each club has performed, and to what extent each has prospered and succeeded as a business enterprise despite competition for market share. It explains why teams located in certain markets win more games and titles than others and explores the ties between performance and finance.

National Football League Franchises highlights and analyzes thirty-two teams' historical regular-season and postseason performances and provides a financial profile of each as a profitable or unprofitable enterprise. This book reveals how effectively each team competes and operates from a business perspective.

This book analyzes and highlights the development and success of major league baseball teams in the National League and the American League, focusing on each team's performance and the extent to which each succeeded as a business enterprise despite competition for market share from other types of entertainment.

It should surprise no one that the National Football League is a business. Yet people are unaware of how that business developed. This book details the growth of an industry that generates billions of dollars, as it explains the intricacies of the league's expansions and mergers as well as the effect of the NFL on domestic and foreign affairs.

This book takes a close look at the international ballplayers, managers, and officials in Major League Baseball from 1876 to 2012. It is not only a comprehensive history of foreigners in baseball, but also an examination of the impact and significance of these individuals on the sport, including their influence on the minor leagues and on the expansion, development, and popularity of baseball in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Takes us on a tour, since the 1870s, of the expansions and mergers, relocations, transfers, and reorganizations that are constantly shifting the professional sports landscape. This work explains the successes and failures of such efforts, including their effects on team competitiveness, market share, and prosperity.

How did the professional baseball, basketball, football, and hockey leagues become the most successful sports organizations in the United States? Jozsa investigates the major leagues' histories with unparalleled depth and rigorous economic analysis.

Examines the commercial elements of organized baseball, emphasizing on the dual roles - competitive sport and profitable business. This work features twenty-five essays, covering five areas integral to the economic side of baseball: business and finance, human resources, international relations, management and leadership and sports marketing.

In the business of professional league sports, market conditions are the key determinate of the financial success or failure of a team.