The Comparison Research On The Basic Institution Of Professional Football In China And Western Countries

Applying theories of ecomonics,public goods,private goods and the transaction cost concept,combining with system analysis and comparison methods,this thesis explains the characteristics and foundamental situation of the basic institutional arrangement of professional football in western countries and China to illustrate the indepth reasons causing the differences in this area between China and western countries.Western professional football exsits in the form of a duration,in which franchises and league provide high level performances for people to meet their needs of enjoying games.The main driving power that promotes its development is the contradictary yet integrity relationship of producers and consumers,which are the two leading roles in the development of professional football.In addition,other enterprises and the nation are also participants in this process.Therefore,as a process exsitence,the practical participants of professioanl football are diversified.In western countries,the prime value of professional football lies in meeting the needs of individuals and the supreme goal is to satisfy spectators' enjoying needs.On the basis of striving to realize this goal,diversified participants could realize their economic profits and political appeals respectively.The operation of PF is run smoothly under the market economy circumstances with the arrangement of every participant plays its own role and gets its benefits from the business.The process of providing and consuming private goods is its essence,in which exsits a strictly hierarchized professional football evaluation system and relationships of different participants under this system that fundamentally decides the apperance and improving procedure of PF leagues. Professional leagues embody the characteristics both as an enterprise and a market.The reason of its existence is that it realized high quality and high efficiency with the lowest transaction costs.On the contrary,in China,the main principle of PF is to bring honors to the nation or the local community.Instead of applying the order of meeting spectators' need,business profits and the results of games, Chinese PF put results and glory in the first place,while meeting spectators' needs is not considered seriously.The reason for this lies in the participants and value orientation of Chinese PF.Although society and individuals have been playing more and more important roles in China PF arrangement,the main value of Chinese football has never changed. As a result,the relationship among nation,society and individuals remains the same.The indepth reason of differences in Chinese and western PF lies in differences in the professional footbal evaluation system,market processing system and the status of market participants.