Complexity And Control In Team Sports: Dialectics In Contesting Human Systems Paperback

India

Felix Lebed

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 whole system approach, and exploring the concepts of control, regulation and self-organization, this book argues that it is possible for coaches, managers and psychologists to develop a better understanding of how a complex system works, and therefore, to more successfully manage and influence a team's performance.

1138833851

9781138833852

English

Taylor & Francis Ltd

10 Oct 2014

Felix Lebed teaches in the Physical Education Department at Kaye Academic College of Education, Israel.

Michael Bar-Eli