Managing the Olympics / edited by Stephen Frawley and Daryl Adair.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frawley, Stephen, 1969-

Adair, Daryl.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Olympics--Planning.

Olympics.

Olympics--Management.

Physical Description:

xi, 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

The Olympics Games are the biggest and most significant mega-sport event in the world. Planning and then staging the Olympic Games is a highly complex task which is exasperated by the fact that the Games are continually moving and not held consecutively in the same city. This means that start-up knowledge is required for each Olympics. Given the massive scale, scope and complexity of the Games it is surprising that very little research has been published that explores how the event is managed and organised. While the Games themselves are held over two weeks, the planning and preparation from bid stage to completion can be more than a decade in the making. The express purpose of this volume is to critically examine the planning, management and operation of the Olympic Games as the world's premier mega-sport event. The authors analyse and discuss how Olympic organisers and related stakeholders might effectively manage and deliver the Games, taking into account what has been learned from previous Olympics as well as the emergence of models of best practice from the management, project management and sport management literature.

Contents:

1. The Olympic Games: Managerial and Strategic Dimensions; Stephen Frawley and Daryl Adair

2. Olympic GamesStakeholder Governance and Management; Milena parent

3. Information, Knowledge and the Organization of the Olympic Games; Sue Halbwirth and Kristine Toohey

4. Managing Legacy; Richard Cashman and John Horne

5. Managing Sport Participation Legacy at the Olympic Games; Stephen Frawley, Kristine Toohey and A. J. Veal

6. Managing Sport at the Olympic Games; Stephen Frawley, Kristine Toohey, Tracy Taylor and Dwight Zakus

7. Managing Olympic Venues; Simon Darcy and Tracy Taylor

8. Managing Transport during the Olympic Games; Eva Kassens-Noor

9. Broadcasting the Olympics; Harry-Arne Solberg and Chris Gratton

10. Investigating Olympic Sponsorship: A Contemporary Review of Selected Activation and Achievement; Rick Burton

11. Olympic Ceremonial, Protocol and Symbolism; Daryl Adair

12. Managing the Games: Prospects for the Future; Daryl Adair and Stephen Frawley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0230389570

9780230389571

OCLC:

834978398