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The paper is an attempt at preliminary identification of main areas and aspects of interest in sport in economic sciences, along with indication of how it is expressed in the system of national accounts. The authors start their analysis with a microeconomic approach within which they pay attention to the distinction between sports as a hobby and sports as a profession and the significance of those two forms of sport activity from the standpoint of the increase in life quality and welfare (well-being). They also indicate factors which increase the role of sports and physical education in socio-economic development in contemporary economies and societies. The authors pay also attention to growing interdependencies taking contemporarily place between doing sports as a hobby (amateur sports) and professional sports. Furthermore, they emphasize that interest in sport from the perspective of economics of sport and sports management is ever (and in the case of contemporary professional sports in particular) connected with the financial knowledge. In the second part of the paper, an attempt at conceptual recognition of sport sector as a part of the national economy has been undertaken. In this attempt, the authors identify a narrow and a broader concept of statistical measurement of this sector in the national accounts system. Based on the subject literature, they present estimates of the size of sport sector in the EU-27 countries from the point of view of gross value added (GDP), share in total employment and inter-sectoral relationships (multiplier effects of sport sector). Those estimates form the basis for recommendations concerning the use of sport activities for supporting the economic development.

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Nowadays, sport is becoming an important sector of the economy. Sports organizations create the most important product of the sports market – sports events. Sport organizations are exposed to a number of changes that may occur in their environment. A concept that can prevent the negative effects of changes in both the internal and external environment is the concept of agility. Widely described in the literature on the subject, thanks to its components, it allows the identification and adaptation to change, so that the organization not only survives the change, but, whenever possible, uses it as an opportunity. The article presents the theoretical background of the concept of agility based on the analysis of the literature on the subject. The analytical part characterizes sports organizations operating in the field of professional sports competition – the Polish reality. The empirical part analyzes the knowledge and importance of selected elements of the concept of agility in the management of sports organizations among managers of organizations participating in sports competitions organized by the Polish Volleyball League (PLS). The obtained research results confirmed that the use of action mechanisms characteristic of the agility concept can bring tangible benefits for sports organizations operating in the form of joint-stock companies associated with PLS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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