摘要：Sports industries evince several unique characteristics – relating
to firm organization, labor relations, and markets – that highlight
an alternative path of industrialization that has not been
adequately examined. Indeed, the very concept of sport being
considered an industry is culturally contested, which draws
historians into a discussion of the part that business and industry
play in the creation, production, and propagation of culture. With
reference to the National Hockey League, I examine the various
methodological approaches used by economists, sport historians,
business historians and sociologists to study the sports industry
and propose that a synthesis of these approaches using capital
theory may provide additional insights into the cultural connections
of industrial organization.
