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- Bodemar, Annika, et al.
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Doomed to fail? : A study of how junior managers at a major sport event cope with leadership issues
- 2020
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Ingår i: International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing. - : InderScience Publishers. - 1475-8962 .- 1740-2808. ; 20:3/4, s. 271-288
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The organising committee at the 2012 World Snowboarding Championships in Oslo experienced major problems such as uncertainty among the junior managers and general chaos. Despite this, in external communications, the event was declared to be a success. This article draws on the works of Parent and Seguin (2007) and Parent et al. (2009) to examine the key leadership and organisational factors that contributed to these problems. The purpose of this study is to investigate how the junior managers coped with uncertainty and solved problems. This study is based on semi-structured interviews, documents, and participant observations. The findings show that a variety of mechanisms caused uncertainty, including some factors that predicted the event's failure. Although the existing literature is focused on explaining events' success or lack thereof via leadership, this case provides an opportunity to understand how an event can succeed despite the presence of factors that typically lead to failure.
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- Lesjø, Jon Helge, et al.
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Patterns of influence : relationship with the IOC as seen by the organisers of the Youth Olympic Winter Games 2016
- 2017
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Ingår i: International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing. - Geneva : Inderscience Publishers. - 1475-8962 .- 1740-2808. ; 17:4-6, s. 331-350
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Youth Olympic Games (YOG) resembles the Olympic Games in many ways but it has its own identity and characteristics. In this article, we analyse patterns of influence between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and local organisers prior to the YOG 2016. The findings show that these patterns vary over time and between different areas of governance and management. The IOC in general follows event organisers rather losely through detailed manuals, routines of communications, and reports. According to local organisers, this model of governance fits big events such as the Olympics better than smaller events such as YOG. Through time and processes characterised by 'negotiated trust' however, local organisers gained more autonomy. This case shows that hosts can gain power through the control and trust mechanism and realise local projects.
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- Sand, Trond Svela, et al.
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2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games: planning for a volunteer legacy
- 2017
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Ingår i: International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing. - : InderScience Publishers. - 1475-8962 .- 1740-2808. ; 17:4-6, s. 242-260
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to investigate the relation between the legacy planning process of the 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG 2016) and the willingness of event volunteers to continue long-term club volunteering and sports event volunteering after the YOG 2016. The article is based on survey data (n = 930) of young volunteers (≤29 years) and shows that they were reflexive oriented in their motives, however collective motives were important as well. Furthermore, the young volunteers were positive with respect to the general experience as volunteers and to how this had influenced their willingness for future volunteering. The findings are discussed in relation to managerial actions during the YOG 2016, such as performance feedback, training for and communication of task specification - and how lack of such may be a barrier for future volunteering.
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- Strittmatter, Anna-Maria, 1988-
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A neo-institutionalist analysis of sport event leveraging strategies and tactics
- 2017
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Ingår i: International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing. - : InderScience Publishers. - 1475-8962 .- 1740-2808. ; 17:4/5/6, s. 261-282
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study provides a conceptual framework for understanding how leveraging tactics are developed by implementing agents and organisations responsible for a certain outcome for sport events. The framework, built on neo-institutional theory and implementation literature, was applied by examining youth sport policy (YSP) implementation and outcomes by leveraging the 2016 Lillehammer Winter Youth Olympic Games with the formulated objective to increase the engagement of young people in Norwegian organised sport. Planning and perceptions of the leveraging process were explored through 33 semi-structured interviews with policy formulators, implementing agents, and the policy target group. Technical details of implementation proved to be more time-consuming and difficult than the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports (NIF) and its partner organisations assumed. While the successful staging of the event itself was given priority, none of the stakeholder organisations involved in the YSP implementation prioritised its leverage. Opportunities for innovation on the street-level by the policy network were missed resulting in the reproduction of existing practices within the Norwegian sports structure.
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