Vassil Girginov

Vassil Girginov is Professor of Sport Management at Brunel University London, UK. He also serves as President of the European Association for Sport Management and the General Editor of Routledge Resource Online: Sport Studies. Girginov has authored and edited several books with Routledge and other publishers. His most recent book is Running Events: Policies, Marketing and Impacts (Routledge, 2018).Mathew Dowling, PhD is Senior Lecturer in Sport Management in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, UK. His research focuses on sport governance and organisational and systemic change within not-for-profit sport organisations. He has an established track record of publishing in leading journals and has co-authored books within sport management, sport governance, and comparative methods in sport.