The sports agent has become a highly significant figure in contemporary sport business. The role of the agent is essential to our understanding of labour markets and labour relations in an increasingly globalised sports industry. Drawing on extensive empirical research into football around the world, this book explains what agents do, how their role has changed, and why this is important for future sport business.
Offering analysis from economic, legal, social and historical perspectives, the book explores key topics such as:
Focusing on the major European leagues, this book goes further than any other in illuminating an important but under-researched aspect of contemporary sport business. It is a valuable resource for any student, researcher or policy-maker with an interest in sport business, sport management, sport policy, the economics of sport or labour economics.
Giambattista Rossi is currently Lecturer in Sport Labour Markets at Birkbeck, University of London. Holding a Ph.D. in Management from Birkbeck, his research focuses on the economics of labour market in football. His expertise is on pay-performance relationship, production functions and players’ salaries and transfer fees. In 2011, Giambattista was awarded the CIES-FIFA Joao Havelange Scholarship. He carried out an extensive and relevant research on football agents with the big 5 European football league. His expertise on the industry of sport agents was also enriched by his previous working experience for a leading football agency in Italy. This has allowed Giambattista to deepen his knowledge and to create his research network
Anna Semens is a Senior Account Director at Havas Sports and Entertainment Cake, with over ten years of experience in the sport and entertainment industry and a Ph.D. focussing on the economics of football - specifically the role of agents in football labour markets. She has consulted for a wide range of football clubs, brands and governing bodies, as well as conducting commissioned research for national governments and the European Commission on various issues relating to commercial and economic aspects of the sports industry
Jean Francois Brocard is the General Secretary of the International Association of Sports Economists. He has master degrees in both management and in economics from the Ecole Normale Superieure of Paris. In 2009, he was member of the research group that conducted the Study of Sport Agent Regulation in Europe on the behalf of the European Commission. At the end of 2012, he was awarded the Doctorate degree in Economics conducting an extensive research on the intermediation of professional athletes in Europe and in the United States. He is currently associate researcher for the Center for Law and Economics of Sport (CDES) in Limoges. Jean Francois has published extensively on various aspects of the role intermediaries in the industry of sport in both academic and practitioner publications
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