Research Handbook on Major Sporting Events

Book info: Research Handbook on Major Sporting Events (Hardcover, 874 pages) – Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024. Language: English.

Presenting a comprehensive and pragmatic view on challenges around sporting events, this timely Research Handbook examines the hosting of major sporting events and the impacts they can have on stakeholders. Looking beyond the host destination, it provides a wealth of conceptual analysis on the organisation and administration of such events, including the bidding process, planning, management, sponsorship issues, and marketing.

Multidisciplinary in nature, this Research Handbook features contributions from eminent academics, offering insights into some of the largest international sporting events, and analysing their expected and actual outcomes. Adopting both short-run and long-run perspectives, contributors explore the diverse monetary and non-monetary impacts of major sporting events and how these can be shaped by a wide range of factors, including the cultures in which stakeholders live and operate.

Outlining a nuanced range of international perspectives on major sporting events, this Research Handbook presents state-of-the-art research and will appeal to students and researchers across sports, economic sociology, social policy, and economics and finance. It will also serve as a valuable tool for sports managers, stakeholders, and practitioners interested in event hostship.

Editorial Reviews Review ‘The Research Handbook on Major Sporting Events provides a current and broad international perspective on major sporting events. This informative Research Handbook includes contributions from researchers in a variety of disciplines from over 20 countries. In this ever-changing environment, it is a practical resource of new and relevant ideas for sport management scholars and students, sport industry practitioners, and sport enthusiasts.’ -- Karen Danylchuk, The University of Western Ontario, Canada

‘This Research Handbook presents a compelling compilation of disciplinary perspectives from leading academics on major sporting events’ issues, debates and controversies. The diverse cohort of contributors from around the globe provide thought provoking evidence based research while at the same time challenging the reader to reflect and critique traditional ways of thinking about the impact major sporting events have on a wide array of stakeholders and communities.’ -- Tracy Taylor, RMIT University, Australia About the Author Edited by Harry Arne Solberg, Professor of Sports Economics, NTNU Business School, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, Rasmus K. Storm, Head of Research, Danish Institute for Sports Studies, Denmark and Adjunct Associate Professor, NTNU Business School, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway and Kamilla Swart, Associate Professor and Program Director of the Masters in Sport and Entertainment Management, Division of Engineering Management and Decision Sciences, College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar