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Sports Finance and Management
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Sports Finance and Management

by Jason A. Winfree, Mark S. Rosentraub, Brian M Mills
August 2011
Intermediate to advanced
500 pages
17h 16m
English
CRC Press
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The Structures ofOwnership  ◾  55
Partnerships and the Single-Entity Ownership Model
A partnership is a business owned by two or more people. e most obvious drawback
to having a team owned by two or more people is that there might be disagreements
among the owners. e benet, however, compared to a sole proprietorship is that there
is less nancial risk for each owner. If a team must raise cash, each partner can con-
tribute and the inclusion of partners also means people with dierent ideas regarding
revenue generation could be incorporated into the management of the franchise.
One unique type of partnership that is sometimes seen in sports is a single entity
league. A syndicate or group of individuals owns all of the teams that comprise
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ISBN: 9781439897102