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Global Sport Business Journal

Abstract

This review examines Soccer, Globalization, and Innovation: The Beautiful Game in the 21st Century, an edited book that explores soccer as a key site where globalization and innovation intersect. This book conceptualizes innovation across multiple domains, including gameplay, sport business, and social and political initiatives. Simultaneously, this book emphasizes the interconnected and contested nature of global processes. Drawing on various actual cases, this book presents and highlights how power relations, stakeholder dynamics, and technological changes shape outcomes in global soccer. The current review evaluates the book’s conceptual framework, organization, and practical relevance. In doing so, this review notes the strengths of this book in offering a broad and accessible perspective and also acknowledges challenges related to thematic integration. Overall, this book contributes meaningfully to scholarship and practice by linking globalization, innovation, and social change in contemporary sport.

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