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Prater, Karen N. "Participatory sporting events as fundraising vehicles /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/9134.
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Prater, Karen N. 1966. "Participatory Sporting Events as Fundraising Vehicles." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/9134.
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viii, 50 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.<br>Nonprofit organizations across the United States utilize participatory sporting
events such as running or walking races in order to raise awareness and funds for their
cause. Large events, for example the Nike Women's Marathon in San Francisco, attract
thousands of participants and raise as much as $16 million annually for one cause.
Smaller events held in small towns to large cities may attract as few as one hundred
participants and raise considerably less for their cause. Representatives of nonprofit
organizations and race directors were interviewed regarding staff time and costs involved
in producing a run/walk event held in Oregon. Recurring characteristics and best
practices for a run/walk event were identified. In addition to the funds raised less the cost
to produce the event, measurements of success for this type of special event may include
factors such as educating and attracting new constituents to the cause.<br>Committee in Charge:
Renee Irvin, Ph.D. Chair;
Laura Leete, Ph.D.;
Sarah-Kate Sharkey, M.P.A.
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Cho, Hyunjoo. "International sporting events, nationalism and sport diplomacy." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2013. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/12565.
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Scholarship concerning relations between North and South Korea has focused on the political and economic areas of relations between the two Koreas, and the unification issue has been mainly considered a work of government conducted in the formal political domain. However, this thesis examines the Olympics and international sporting events as major sources and vehicles of discourse reflecting but also shaping relations between North and South Korea. The thesis, adopting a Critical Realist ontology, applies a constructivist theory of International Relations to establish how the framework of North and South Korean sports relations contributes to, and at times drive, political relations. The study adopts Critical Discourse Analysis as method, and the analysis protocols employed were established by adapting frames of reference from the work of Fairclough (2005) and Jäger and Meyer (2009). In terms of the sources employed the North Korean newspaper Roh-Dong, which is subject to state control we take to represent the view of the North Korean regime. This was selected as a resource to illustrate how the North Korean government sought to construct a particular discourse concerning national identity, political position and sport. South Korean newspapers Dong-A and Hankyoreh were chosen to identify two relatively different (relatively right and left in Korean terms) political views evident in the South Korean context and their constructions around these issues. In addition, the summaries of North and South Sports Talks published by the South Korean government provide a source of data reflecting South Korean governmental interests. From 1978 to 2007, the changes in the international context from Cold War to post-Cold War and the domestic political changes in particular in South Korea, framed each decade s North and South Korean sports relations. The shared notion of national identity and of nationhood, reflected in the primordial nationalism evident in both North and South Koreans view of themselves (and of one another) as drawn from the same bio-cultural stock, is a factors shaping the actions of governments and other stakeholders. This ideology of shared heritage goes some way to explain why despite regularly occurring political tensions, there was a recurring appeal to common identity which manifest itself in sporting activity in for example the consideration of building unified teams in major competitions, or marching together at Olympic opening ceremonies. Thus the role of sport in developing relations between North and South Korea is one which is more than simply a reflection of the state of diplomatic relations, but is actually a significant shaper of such relations. Sport diplomacy, though a form of soft diplomacy, is in this case a key factor to be incorporated with the explanation of developing political relations.
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Tapp, Jason. "Attitudinal Outcomes of Punishment Events in Team-Sporting Settings." TopSCHOLAR®, 2000. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/705.
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The organizational justice perspective suggests that procedural and distributive justice evaluations of a specific punishment event will affect an individual's reactions to the punishment. A 3 (decision-making procedure: autocratic, participative, group) X 3 (punishment severity: low, moderate, high) factorial design was utilized to develop punishment scenarios in team-sport settings which were evaluated by 205 participants. Decision-making procedure and punishment severity both produced significant main effects on evaluations of the fairness of the procedure. Only punishment severity produced a significant main effect on perceptions of the fairness and appropriateness of the punishment, as well as on perceptions of the likelihood of the punishment to deter future violations. Implications for future research and coaching effectiveness are discussed.
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Kavetsos, Georgios. "Essays on the Economic Impact of Major Sporting Events." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.502918.
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Castor, Thomas Scott. "Presidents’ Perceptions of Alcohol Policies for College Sporting Events." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1596800259420003.
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Nilsson, Andreas. "Sport informatics : exploring IT support for spectators at sporting events /." Göteborg : Dept. of Informatics, Göteborg University, 2005. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=014734930&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Johnson, Darren. "Reducing Violence at Interscholastic Sporting Events with a Spectator Covenant." Thesis, Northcentral University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13420816.
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Many secondary administrators, coaches, and security personnel have advocated for an intervention method to curtail the swell of referrals, ejections, and violence from the spectator sections in attendance at these events. The spirit of Olympism and sportsmanship is considered a core element of these events. The problem was that many of the events have seen a rise in these incidents. There is a correlation of the infusion of these elements, and the atmosphere at these events. The purpose of this experimental study was to explore whether a spectator covenant of behavior, would help to bind the parties to adherence to upholding these standards in a Central Arizona high school, located in the East Valley of Phoenix. This could help the administrators, coaches, and school personnel as an ancillary benefit, to the obvious decrease of these referrals. The analysis of archival against real-time data were based on the increase or decrease of said incidents, before the covenant was in place and while the covenant was in effect. These records are kept every year, and in each event. The implications of this study are that use of this type of intervention may be successful in similar situations and events. Recommendations for practice are for covenants to become a standard practice at sporting events. Recommendations for future study include conducting subsequent studies in several different areas of the country with varying crowd sizes. A future case study could be designed using parents who volunteer to sign an agreement and stay true to the binding covenant.
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Ayling, Amanda Jayne. "The constraint negotiation process and the outcome of substitution towards major event spectatorship." Thesis, Griffith University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366108.
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Substitute major events include live sites, event celebrations and viewing parties that are held at the same time as the actual major event, but away from the actual major event site. These events are becoming increasingly used by stakeholders to counteract venue and destination capacity concerns, and in leveraging the social value connected with major sporting and non-sporting events. They are also becoming frequently used by consumers as a way of feeling a part of the major event, particularly when spectatorship to the actual event venue may not be possible. However, little is known about how consumers arrive at the decision to attend a substitute event rather than spectatorship at the actual major event.
Research on event spectatorship behaviour has begun to identify the main constraints experienced by attendees and non-attendees to special events. However, a lack of research has focused on the constraints encountered by substitute attendees. In addition, research has yet to identify the main ways in which consumers overcome or alleviate the effects of constraints on spectatorship towards major and substitute events. Furthermore, event research has yet to examine the relationships between motivation, constraints, negotiation and participation, including substitution, in consumers’ spectatorship decisions. Similarly, research within the frameworks of leisure constraint theory and the theory of substitutability has yet to investigate this “constraint negotiation process” with the outcome of substitution. As such, this study builds and examines a structural model that assists in predicting and understanding the constraint negotiation process in consumers’ decisions towards spectatorship at substitute major events. Hubbard and Mannell’s (2001) constraint-effects-mitigation model was adapted and extended through incorporating components of Jackson’s et al (1993) leisure constraint negotiation and Iso-Ahola’s (1986) substitution outcome behaviour propositions...<br>Thesis (PhD Doctorate)<br>Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)<br>Department of Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management<br>Griffith Business School<br>Full Text
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MacPherson, Christopher Peter. "Measuring the economic impact of participants involved in community sporting events." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ30006.pdf.
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Herring, Rachel. "Governance, sport and the city : realising mega sporting events in London." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2006. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/6749/.
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Mega sports events have become important tools for cities seeking to enhance their global position, undertake regeneration and promote tourism and there is intense competition to win the rights to host events, particularly the Olympics, World Athletics Championships and FIFA World Cup. Using the case of the abandoned Lee Valley National Athletics Centre (LVNAC) project and the loss of the rights to stage the 2005 World Athletics Championships in London as a case study, this thesis sets out. To explore the inter-relationships between governance, sport and the city, with a particular focus on mega sports events. .A qualitative approach was adopted to enable processes to be explored and to tease out linkages between different aspects of governance, levels of governance, sport and governance and the various interested parties. This thesis is multi-disciplinary in its approach, using concepts from a variety of disciplines including social policy, geography, urban studies and politics. It is underpinned by an integrative theoretical framework drawing elements primarily from urban regime theory, theories of policy networks and multi-level governance. This thesis is based on the premise that the key to understanding the failure of the LVNAC project as well as the development of other mega sporting projects lies in understanding the prevailing governance arrangements. A working hypothesis was developed to guide the thesis, which is that the relative failure of the UK to bid for, and stage mega-sports events in the recent past is rooted within aspects of the network style of governance that evolved in London and other UK cities. In order to explore this proposition and to more fully understand the failure of the LVNAC project this thesis compares how other nations and cities (both within the UK and abroad) approach mega sports events and their experiences of staging mega sports events. Drawing on documentary sources and semi-structured interviews with key players involved with the LVNAC project, the 'story' of the Lee Valley National Athletics Centre is told. The analysis of the LVNAC project locates the project within the evolving governance arrangements for London- the re-instatement of city-wide government and election of the Mayor in 2001. Comparison is made with the subsequent successful London bid for the 2012 Olympics. This thesis demonstrates the importance of governance issues throughout the whole mega sports events process and at all levels of governance. In particular this thesis has shown that three elements of governance -leadership, vision and strategy -play a critical role in securing and delivering successful mega sports events. The failure of the LVNAC project was the result of failures on all these fronts whilst the success of the London Olympic bid was largely because these elements were in place. This thesis highlights the critical role played by cities but also the continuing importance of central government in the mega sporting events process. Furthermore, this thesis has demonstrated the value of studying an apparent failure. So often the emphasis within policy and political arenas is on learning from success and consequently failures are often overlooked as a source of positive knowledge.
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Mikulka, Jakub. "Playing Lotteries and Betting on Sporting Events: A Behavioral Economics Perspective." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-197086.
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This thesis deals with the relationship between mood and behavior of bettors using a dataset provided by a betting company, Chance a.s., which operates in the Czech Republic. We consider three types of proxies for the mood: weather in regions, sport successes and the results of elections, and we build a fixed effect model to estimate the effect of mood on betting behavior. We provide strong evidence that the weather proxy has a significant effect on daily turnovers of the betting company and there also seems to be an effect of sport optimism. On the contrary, we failed to find any impact of elections. The results show that better mood tend to discourage clients from sports and lottery betting which is consistent with the increase in risk aversion or the depletion of a common self-control resource due to active mood regulation attempts. Additionally, we provide an evidence that the intra-month cycle in turnovers corresponds to liquidity constraint of bettors which disproves the permanent income hypothesis.
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Guerra, Jorge Miguel Pereira. "Avaliação da qualidade dos eventos desportivos: as perspectivas dos diferentes actores sobre os eventos no Município de Loulé." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/15097.
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A Qualidade, actualmente, é encarada como um instrumento estratégico de extrema importância para a sobrevivência de qualquer organização, em que a melhoria da qualidade passou assim a ser uma filosofia de vida para todos aqueles que nelas trabalham.
Nesta linha, é fundamental que os eventos desportivos se esforcem por conhecer e auscultar os seus clientes, tanto externos como internos, visando satisfazer as suas necessidades e preferências, concebendo, simultaneamente, resultados de modo a potenciar e melhorar novas formas de gestão da qualidade nos eventos desportivos.
O presente estudo versa um conjunto de preocupações relacionadas com a qualidade dos eventos desportivos no Município de Loulé, tendo por finalidade conhecer a perspectiva dos gestores, colaboradores e atletas através da aplicação de três inquéritos por questionários distintos.
Este estudo revelou que a percepção acerca da qualidade dos eventos desportivos, tanto dos atletas como dos gestores, é globalmente positiva. Contudo, no caso dos colaboradores os dados obtidos em ambos os eventos apresentam coeficientes de fiabilidade inaceitáveis (α<0,7), remetendo para a elaboração de um novo estudo.
O trabalho efectuado pretende afirmar-se como um contributo para aprofundar esta matéria e, acima de tudo, prover aos eventos desportivos instrumentos para a implementação de programas de melhoria da qualidade e, por conseguinte, facilitar a obtenção de resultados orientados para a satisfação de todas as partes interessadas, numa perspectiva de optimização dos eventos desportivos; ABSTRACT:Quality, currently is seen as a strategic tool of extreme importance for the survival of any organization, in which quality improvement thus became a philosophy of life for all who work in them.
In this line, it is essential that sporting events strive to meet and listen to the customers, both external and internal, in order to meet their needs and preferences by designing simultaneously in order to maximize results and enhance new forms of quality management in sporting events.
This study deals with a set of concerns about the quality of sporting events in the Municipality of Loulé, which aims to know the perspective of managers, employees and athletes through the application of three separate surveys by questionnaires.
This study revealed that the perception about the quality of sporting events, both the athletes and managers, is positive. However, in the case of employees with the data from both events have unacceptable reliability coefficients (α<0.7), referring to the elaboration of a new study.
The work undertaken aims to establish itself as a contribution to further discuss this matter and, above all, sporting events to provide instruments for the implementation of programs to improve the quality and thus facilitate result-oriented to the satisfaction of all stakeholders, in order to optimize the sporting events.
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Wessels, Abraham Albertus. "A needs analysis of supporters accessories at large sporting events / Albert Wessels." Thesis, North-West University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/2045.
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Sun, Xu. "Using mobile personalisation to enhance the user experience at large sporting events." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2010. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/6229.
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At large sporting events (LSEs), e.g. football matches and athletics events, the user experience has been shown to be highly variable (Nilsson, 2004; Nilsson et al. 2004). Reported problems include a lack of social interaction with fellow spectators, and insufficient relevant information on the events or the sporting action taking place (Nilsson, 2004; Nilsson et al. 2004; Esbjornsson et al. 2006; Jacucci et al. 2005). A possible solution is personalisation, making the mobile application adapt to the user, ensuring that only relevant information is retrieved and presented in a way that is suitable. This thesis is devoted to studying the user experience related to mobile personalization at LSEs. It aims to investigate how personalized mobile applications at LSEs can render the user experience more active and engaging in a contextually, socially and culturally relevant way. The thesis reviews different theoretical approaches to help to understand the concepts of interest e.g. personalization and user experience (Chapter 2). Research methods are also discussed including the challenge of adapting user-centred methods into the Chinese culture (Chapter 3). This thesis investigates the user experience of mobile personalization at LSEs by following the circle of user-centred research: It starts to consider user requirements and user experience at LSEs and derives the usage patterns that personalized mobile applications could usefully support (Chapter 4). Then it explores the relevant contextual factors at LSEs which could be used to prescribe the behaviour of a personalizable mobile application (Chapter 5). Next, it describes the user-centred process used to design personalizable interfaces for mobile applications used at LSEs. Four key elements of design are considered: content, conceptual, interaction and presentation design (Chapter 6). The final outputs of the design process were two personalized mobile prototypes for Chinese users at LSEs. These included versions based on either (1) user-initiated or (2) system-initiated personalisation. Finally it investigates the impact on user experience of mobile personalization at LSEs in two empirical studies (a field experiment and a lab-based experiment) with these prototypes (Chapters 7 and 8). Mobile personalization is shown to result in an enriched user experience across a range of activities that a spectator would undertake at a large sporting event. The thesis discusses primarily the effective design of mobile personalization, the design implications at LSEs, user experience design, and research methods for Chinese users (Chapter 9). In conclusion (Chapter 10), specific contributions and avenues for future work are highlighted.
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Hansen, Matthew. "City Branding : The effects of hosting sporting events: An empirical study of Singapore." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Administration, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-12496.
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Zhang, Cui. "Analyzing the changing pattern of strategies for organizing mega-sporting events in China." Thesis, University of Macau, 2006. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1874194.
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Hansen, Matthew, and Yen Wiee Lee. "City Branding : The effects of hosting sporting events: An empirical study of Singapore." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-12496.
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There is a growing amount of literature that investigates the various strategies and effects of city branding, but only a limited amount of research has been carried out pertaining to how sporting events can be used as a tool for city branding in a real world setting. By conducting an empirical study of Singapore, this study aims to contribute to the ongoing discussion on city branding by identifying how evaluations of a city differ for certain dimensions of its overall brand when it hosts different sporting events and when there is a perceived match between different sporting events and a city. An important theoretical framework used in this study is the match-up theory. Dimensions used as the measurements of perception are chosen from the six dimensions used in the Anholt-GfK Roper City Brands Index. Using a quantitative approach, the authors surveyed 200 students studying in South Korea, Thailand and Sweden to gather their perceptions of 4 dimensions of the city (short-term and long-term Pulse scores, pleasant travel and physical attractiveness Place scores), 2 dimensions (Pulse and Place scores) of 3 sporting events it hosts, and the level of perceived match between these sporting events and the city. The sporting events measured are high-profile events with international interest namely the AVIVA Open Singapore, the Singapore Grand Prix and the Volvo Ocean Race. Pearson Bivariate Correlation, test of equality of means, and multiple linear regression analyses were performed. The results of the equality test of means between match and non-match groups are sensational as 10 of 12 models report significant differences in means at either 1% or 5% levels. Nevertheless, the results of the comprehensive multiple regressions are mixed. The perceived Pulse score for a sporting event has a positive and significant impact on the two perceived Pulse scores for Singapore in 4 of 6 models. Similarly, the perceived Place score for a sporting event has a positive and significant impact on the two perceived Place scores for Singapore in 5 of 6 models. The perceived match between a sporting event and a city positively affects the perceived long-term Pulse score for Singapore in 1 of 3 models and the two perceived Place scores for Singapore in 3 of 6 models at less than a 10% level of significance; it has no significant effect on the perceived short-term Pulse score and perceived pleasant travel Place score for Singapore. Thus, partial support to the match-up theory is found.
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Leopkey, Becca. "Risk management issues and strategies in large-scale sporting events: A stakeholder perspective." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27877.
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The purpose of this Masters thesis was to explore risk management issues and strategies from the perspectives of key stakeholders of large-scale sporting events using a comparative case study of two Canadian sporting events---the ISU (International Skating Union) 2006 World Figure Skating Championships and the U-20 FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association ) World Cup Canada 2007.
A new definition of risk management was proposed as the proactive process that involves assessing all possible risks to the events and its stakeholders by strategically avoiding, preventing, reducing, diffusing, re-allocating, legalizing, and building/managing relationships to mitigate those identified risks. The following categories of risk issues were identified: environment, financial, human resources, infrastructure, interdependence, legacy, media, operations, organizing, participation, political, relationships, sport, threats and visibility. Stakeholders used a variety of strategies to deal with risk in large-scale sporting events. Strategies that emerged during this research fell within the following categories: avoidance, diffusion, legal, re-allocation, prevention, reduction and relationships.
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Munroe, Megan A. "Global sporting mega-events : a general morphological analysis of Olympic security policy transfer." Thesis, University of Buckingham, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.573422.
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Hosting an Olympic Games is a large and complex undertaking that requires years of planning, billions of pounds and thousands of people to stage. While the rationale behind expending the effort required to stage an event of this scale may vary from host to host, all hosts maintain the primary objective of staging the event safely and securely. The issue of terrorism has been a major concern for Olympic planners since the terrorist attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics. More recently, the terrorist bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and 9/11 have served to further amplify concerns of terrorism at these events and have increased pressures on hosts to ensure security. With the exception of incidents occurring before Games' openings, minor security breaches taking place during events, and terrorist threats directed at the Games, we have not witnessed a physical terrorist attack during an Olympi~4tft caused injuries or fatalities since the 1996 event. According to US News and World Rep~rt, there were .168 separate, significant terrorist attacks that occurred at sports-related events from 1972-2004.1 While it is impossible to know the reason for the lack of attacks on Olympics events in recent years, it is reasonable to postulate that the security policies in place have acted as a deterrent, at least in part. With this in mind, an array of questions arises: Which security policies have been adopted at events since the 1996 Games? Have all hosts employed the same security measures at their events? How can this be evaluated? Did 9/11 have an impact on Olympic security? Is there a "Best Practice" security model that is transferred from one Olympics to the next? This thesis explores those queries through answering the encompassing question: Is there an efficient, effective and systematic method for comparatively analyzing the security policies employed by various Olympic host cities, and what information would be generated by this . style of analysis? In response to this research question, this thesis applies General Morphological Analysis (GMA) to the topic of Olympic security policy. GMA is a methodology that has gained popularity over the past twenty years in the field of policy analysis and scenario development but has not been previously applied to the discipline of event security studies, which is what this study accomplishes. The core of this thesis consists of a twofold process: first, applying GMA to the topic of Olympic security from 2000 to 2012 to produce an analytical framework which allows for further, detailed analysis to be performed; and second, applying policy data to that framework to generate outcomes that can be analyzed in relation to the questions earlier raised regarding Olympic security policy. Through this process this thesis demonstrates GMA as an efficient and systematic method for comparatively analyzing topics in the field of event security policy and exhibits its effectiveness in generating unique findings from these policy inquiries. Through utilizing this method, an efficient and systematic analysis was able to be performed on an inherently qualitative and judgmental process. GMA's rigorous classifications and systematic process allow for the outcomes of the analysis to be replicated, which is a key benefit of utilizing this method in this topic. Through the use of matrixing, a comparative foundation is created onto which the security policies utilized at the Olympics can be superimposed in order to reveal where correlations in policy usage and event attributes exist. In performing this analysis, this study uncovered 79 trends in Olympics policy implementation that are original and noteworthy discoveries. Furthermore, this method allows for the observance of the transfer of policy between these events, which substantiates the commonly accepted theory of the existence of policy transfer. The fmdings of this research provide unique data on the impacts of 9/11 on the security policies employed at mega-events, and makes some interesting observations on the disconnect between the implementation of security policies and the level of threat present at these events.
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Glaviano, Breeanne Nicole. "Ambush Marketing in Mega-Sporting Events: Drawing the Line with Freedom of Expression." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/297615.
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International sporting mega-events such as the Olympic Games, are constantly in a behind the scenes and public all out commercial war. This war is a combat between event organizers and ambush marketers who engage in ambush marketing tactics. These marketing strategies can be found from big corporate companies to tiny local shops but almost always end in legal action. While this battle is very real it often goes unnoticed by the public and many fans. This war is fought during most sports mega-events in order to protect the highly lucrative commercial rights of an event's sponsor. This paper will focus on defining ambush marketing within the realm of mega-sporting events, namely focusing on the Olympics. The paper will further explain the legal resources available to event promoters and official sponsors. Lastly, this paper will discuss the violation of freedom of expression in relation to ambush marketing.
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Baleizão, João Francisco Costa Lobo. "Criação de empresa de organização de eventos desportivos no Baixo Alentejo." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/16435.
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O Concelho de Beja, inserido no maior Distrito de Portugal, reúne condições oportunas e justificáveis para um investimento de um projeto desportivo tendo em consideração o enquadramento geográfico e físico que apresenta comparativamente a outros panoramas de concelhos integrados no Baixo Alentejo.
Nesta perspetiva torna-se aliciante propor a criação uma empresa destinada eventos desportivos. Sendo um projeto inédito e executado a longo prazo, tem como objetivo fulcral a valorização da região e a empregabilidade da população autóctone.
O presente estudo está dividido em dois grandes capítulos: a análise externa e análise interna. A primeira remete para o enquadramento geográfico, sociodemográfico e político. Ainda neste ponto é focado o número das associações desportivas, das infraestruturas e os atletas da cidade de Beja bem como é identificado os meios de transporte e a Hospedaria existente. O segundo ponto é a chave do projeto criação de uma empresa de eventos desportivos no Baixo Alentejo. Neste prisma é feita a análise swot da empresa bem como é delineado o seu plano estratégico. Por último é apresentado o balanço final do projeto; Abstract:
Organization of company creation Sporting Events in Alentejo
Key-words: Low - Alentejo, Company, Sporting Events
The Municipality of Beja, inserted in the largest district of Portugal, brings together timely and justifiable conditions for an investment of a sports project taking into account the physical, geographical framework that features compared to other panoramas of integrated municipalities in the Alentejo.
In this perspective becomes attractive create a company intended sporting events. Being an unprecedented project and run the long term, is crucial to increase the value of the region and the employability of the local population.
This study is divided into two major sections: the external analysis and internal analysis. The first refers to the geographic, socio-demographic and political framework. Although this point is focused the number of sports associations, infrastructure and the Beja city athletes and is identified means of transport and the existing Inn. The second point is the key of the project creating a sporting events company in Alentejo. In this prism is made SWOT analysis of the company and is outlined its strategic plan. Finallythe final balance of the project is presented.
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Heinonen, Maiju. "Event Management in Ice Hockey : Case: Liiga (The Finnish Elite League)." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för naturvetenskap, miljö och teknik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-30878.
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The aim of this research was to discuss about event management theory and how the Liiga (the major ice hockey league in Finland) team organisations could use this theory to improve their home game events. This topic has been divided into two research questions from which the first discusses the current situation and the other gives suggestions for future improvements for the Liiga team organisations. This research is conducted as a master’s theses and it has been conducted in years 2014 to 2016. In order to understand the research topic the general theory of event management has been told from the sporting event point of view. This theory has been divided into two different sections which are the five stages of event management and the operational strategies of event management. Answers for the research questions have been search with a qualitative research and its methods of interview and questionnaire, observation and content analysis. These methods and the way these have been used in this research are introduced after the event management theory. The data collected with the selected qualitative research methods has been introduced as empirical findings. These empirical findings are introduced a research method at a time and in a same order as the data has been collected. After introducing the collected data it has been carefully analysed. The analysis have also been divided into two section from which the first answers to the first research question concerning the current situation and the other the second questions concerning the future improvement that could be done. The first part of analysis has been made in a same chronological order as the event management theory has been written in order it to be easy to compere these two to each other. In the end the conclusions of this research and its research questions are introduced. Also the knowledge which this research is offering for the tourism industry and for its readers have been discussed. This are also a lot of different ways how this research could be continued and made further and these ways have been discussed as well. Last but not least the research has been viewed critically and the quality of it has been questioned.
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Vann, Portia L. ""Gateway to the sideline": Brand communication on social media at large-scale sporting events." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/123653/1/Portia_Vann_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis investigated how sport organisations use social media to communicate at international sporting events. Combining participant observation, interviews and Twitter data analysis, it examines two cases – the AFC Asian Cup and Netball World Cup – to document, analyse and compare the creation and implementation of social media strategy. This research uncovered that the development of social media strategy comprises six key pillars: volunteer selection and training, setting objectives, audience segmentation and targeting, platform-based approaches, content creation strategy and moderation of fan conversation. However, within these foundational categories, the specific strategy enacted varies, depending on the event's position in the market.
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Kapur, Arjun. "The Impact of Mega Sporting Event Host Country Selection on Construction and Industrial Sectors of Stock Markets: An Event Study." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/734.
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Nations have always competed vigorously during the bidding process to host mega sporting events. The selection of the host nation is a much anticipated decision that results in the promotion of a country on a global platform. In this paper, I use a market adjusted return (index) model to conduct an event study in order to examine abnormal returns in the stock market surrounding the selection of a nation for the Summer Olympics and the FIFA World Cup. I also focus specifically on the construction and industrial sectors, as well as analyze the impact of selection on the nation emerging as the runner up in the bidding process. The research finds that the outcome of the selection process is partially anticipated by investors, resulting in a market reaction that does not accurately measure the financial impact of hosting the event. As developing nations have demonstrated an increased interest in the hosting of events over the years, this paper also addresses the resulting policy implications, as well as the opportunity cost and the economic effects of crowding out and substitution.
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Martin, David Spencer. "Cognitive scaling, emotions, team identity and future behavioural intentions an examination of sporting event venues /." Auburn, Ala., 2007. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/07M%20Dissertations/MARTIN_DAVID_16.pdf.
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Limmer, Michael B. Shields Edgar W. Jr. "Comparison of spectator demographic descriptors and attendance motivators at University of North Carolina sporting events." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1786.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.<br>Title from electronic title page (viewed Sep. 16, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master in Arts in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science Sport Administration." Discipline: Exercise and Sports Science; Department/School: Exercise and Sport Science.
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Donohoe, Laura Jane. "Travelling to and attending major sporting events : determinants of total spend and trip duration decisions." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2011. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/8256.
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The global growth of sport and major sporting events as tourism and mass entertainment in both single and multi sport formats has prompted the desire for a greater understanding of event attendees and the implications of their motivations and decisions to travel and attend major sporting events. However, research into major sporting events has generally focused on the Olympic Games and/or attendance of a single major sporting event. Currently, the major sporting event community sees the value of measuring the economic impact of major sporting events but do not understand the decisions taken by individuals that travel to and attend major sporting events due to the lack of research in the area. Thus, more robust and comprehensive research needs to be carried out to improve the understanding of individuals that travel to and attend a range of major sporting events. The purpose of this research was to develop a better understanding of the total spend and trip duration decisions of individuals that travel to and attend major sporting events with commercial companies. The research used a positivist quantitative strategy to empirically assess research questions surrounding repeat major sporting event attendance, motivations for major sporting event attendance, variables affecting total spending and trip duration decisions and relationships the between motivations, trip duration and total spending, and to econometrically model findings. Independent variables for analysis were identified through a review of literature, which informed the construction of both a conceptual model and online survey focusing on demographics, event related motivations, major sporting event profile and sporting involvement. Variable-based data collected from individual respondents on nine different major sporting events then underwent a two stage descriptive and statistical analysis. The descriptive analysis consisted of a quantitative breakdown of survey results and the statistical analysis allowed the data to be econometrically modeled and assessed through regression analysis. The research provided significant findings towards understanding the decisions taken by individuals that travel to and attend major sporting events and in doing so led to a greater understanding of total spend and trip duration decisions. Findings indicated that the demographic variables and event related motivations determined total spend decisions whilst demographic variables, event related motivations and major sporting event profile variables determined trip duration decisions. Directly implicated in these findings were relevant key variables for commercial companies to consider in the packaging and sale of major event sport travel to an existing and committed customer base. Furthermore, the results can be extended and applied to populations within a broader sport event community such as managers, planners and evaluators to enhance the economic impact of major sporting events through a better understanding of event attendees.
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Fjeld, Torgeir. "Signifying the body : nation, sport and the cultural analysis of Pierre Bourdieu." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2005. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/signifying-the-body(807050e3-ab61-4da2-833d-61bbda6d7970).html.
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The present study is an interrogation of theories of culture and nation in the context of spectacular sports. It proposes a view of nationalism as discourses that articulate and produce nations through narrative acts. A wide array of concepts and tools are drawn from the work of Pierre Bourdieu and contrasted with methods and notions from discursive and semiotic analysis to interrogate a national-sports nexus in which sports are vehicles to embody nations, their matrices of thought and perception, and their dominant order of masculinity and heteronormativity in the national subject, so that this order appears natural and commonsensical. Particular attention is given to the case of South Africa’s participation in the 1998 World Cup, and the way the epic genre was employed to frame the event and produce a particular kind of national body. Spectacular sports events provide nations with opportunities to disseminate narratives that regulate desire and conjure a particular kind of national fantasy – what Bourdieu referred to as illusio – in subjects. This work makes a distinction between an epic body of nationalism, a body enmeshed in "the natural and authentic," and an excessive body. However, mediations of sports are never merely reflections of social events but themselves participate in producing these events as meaningful and anchor them as national. Furthermore, an actively interpreting subject is required for the production of meaning, and in this regard the thesis offers a critique of Bourdieu’s limited view on what it entails for a recipient of nationalist discourse to be active. The questions addressed by this study is twofold: how and what kind of national order of the body and desire is manufactured through spectacular sports events, and how are mediations of such events made meaningful in subjects? The open-ended character of signification means that beneath the level of nationalist anchorage of spectacular sports events other articulations are possible. Drawing on Bourdieu’s view of sports as forms of silent dressage, the thesis suggests that there is a potential excess of meaning that enables such events to become potential sites of subjective truth: as viewers realise the fantasmatic character of such mediations they may come to question the notion that spectacular sports are something more than just a game.
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Chester, Yayoi. "A model of consumer buyer behaviour relating to the sponsorship of major sporting events in Australia." Swinburne Research Bank, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/35001.
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Cohen, Kenneth. "'To give good sport' the economic culture of public sporting events in early America, 1750-1850 /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 783 p, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1654488981&sid=7&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Rybka, Pauline Johanna. "Political use and consequences of sport events." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-197830.
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In the theory part of this thesis will examine the connection between politics and sport, including the politicization of major sport events and the particular role of non-democratic states as host nations. In the empirical part, three case studies (Summer Olympics Beijing 2008, Winter Olympics Sochi 2014, and FIFA World Cup Qatar 2018) will be analyzed in the light of how they have influenced (or have the potential to influence) reforms, the adoption of democratic structures, and the human rights situation.
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Chen, Hong. "The impact of sports events on urban development in post-Mao China a case study of Guangzhou /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1163380801.
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CHEN, HONG. "THE IMPACT OF SPORTS EVENTS ON URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN POST-MAO CHINA: A CASE STUDY OF GUANGZHOU." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1163380801.
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Wang, Mei. "On the study of mega-event impacts on housing market." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648529.
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Alvarez, Robert. "The Price of Glory: A Socio-Economic Analysis of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Fortaleza, Brazil." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/613494.
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This thesis examines the social and economic impacts of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Fortaleza, Brazil. The study used a budget analysis, and in depth interviews to ascertain the economic impact of the world cup games and the distribution of revenue across different sectors and socio-economic divisions within the local economy. A historical and vulnerability analysis was conducted through the examination of secondary sources (historical documents, census data, previous research on vulnerable populations) to identify groups and spaces of high social vulnerability. Qualitative data was then collected through in depth interviews with sources from all facets of society during the World Cup games and the following summer to identify the social impacts on these vulnerable groups and spaces. The thesis found that the final economic costs for infrastructure and stadium refurbishments associated with the World Cup in Fortaleza far exceeded the projected costs and the final economic impact on the local economy was half of projected estimates. While the city saw social benefits in the celebratory atmosphere and public security provided during the World Cup, there were also negative impacts on socially vulnerable groups and spaces including forced community relocations, increases in cases of commercial sexual exploitation, and rises in violent crime.
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MacKenzie, Alexander. "Risks and benefits of hosting major sporting events in developed and developing countries Euro 2008 and World Cup 2010 /." St. Gallen, 2007. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/03602778001/$FILE/03602778001.pdf.
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Jenkins, David. "Exploring the signalling potential of mega-sporting events : an analysis of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20535.
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Mega-sporting events such as the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa and the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil have been observed to serve as highly influential tools for the promotion of positive media impressions surrounding the host destination. Drawing from the field of existing knowledge surrounding the sociology of sport, the media and media content analysis, this study reports on a media content analysis conducted on the local news coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in selected South African newspapers. Monitoring coverage over and eight-year pre- and post-event period, the analysis identified five principal themes: stadiums; safety and security; Bafana-Bafana; social-impact; and economic-impact. The findings indicated a cyclical-type shift in conversation, where focus was placed on impressions of host-nation capabilities and readiness in the lead up to the event, to profound euphoria, unity and pride during the hosting stages of the event, and finally onto critical impact and legacy evaluation in the post-event phase. The sentiment of the coverage was largely balanced across all periods, with the total number of positive references only slightly exceeding that of negative references. These findings serve as critical insight to the work of event organisers, media managers and policy developers alike, whom all hold a vested interest in managing the perceived impressions of mega-sporting events. Practical implications for these stakeholders include: i) establishing greater clarity with respect to the overall signalling benefits of mega-sporting; and ii) informing media management campaigns to reinforce the power of mega-sporting events as a positive reference point - especially in the post-event legacy period.
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Djaballah, Mathieu. "Une approche sensemaking de la responsabilité sociale dans le secteur de l'événementiel sportif." Thesis, Paris 11, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA113003.
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La responsabilité sociale des entreprises (RSE) fait l’objet d’un intérêt croissant au sein de la recherche en management des organisations sportives. Il apparaît de plus en plus évident qu’elle y revêt des caractéristiques spécifiques faisant écho aux nombreuses particularités déjà soulignées du secteur sportif. Cette thèse aborde plus précisément la responsabilité sociale dans le cadre des évènements sportifs. Celle-ci semble être influencée, à l’instar de celle d’autres organisations sportives (Babiak & Wolfe, 2009), par deux ensembles de déterminants, les premiers renvoyant aux « ressources internes uniques » dont ils disposent, les seconds aux « fortes pressions externes » dont ils font l’objet. Ce travail envisage donc la responsabilité sociale des évènements sportifs comme une « boîte noire » qu’il s’agit d’ouvrir pour comprendre comment chaque acteur lui donne du sens. Dans cette perspective, il vise deux objectifs : (1) analyser, à travers un modèle de sensemaking stratégique ou prospectif (Thomas, Clark & Gioia, 1993; Selsky & Parker, 2010), les processus de construction de sens de deux parties prenantes principales des évènements sportifs ; (2) rendre compte, en nous appuyant sur les concepts du sensegiving (Gioia & Chittipeddi, 1991 ; Maitlis, 2005), de la manière dont ces différents acteurs influencent la construction de sens collective qui aboutit à la stratégie de responsabilité sociale d’un évènement sportif. Ce travail s’articule autour de trois études. Les deux premières sont constituées d’entretiens semi-directifs (personnes-ressources) auprès d’entreprises sponsors (N=23) et de collectivités locales (N=23). La troisième est composée de quatre études de cas combinant des entretiens semi-directifs auprès des organisateurs et des principales parties prenantes concernées (N=27), d’observations sur site ainsi que d’une analyse documentaire. Les résultats permettent d’identifier, pour chaque catégorie d’acteur, plusieurs niveaux d’ambigüité qui balisent le processus de sensemaking. Pour les entreprises sponsors, il s’agit de leurs perceptions (positives ou négatives) du degré de proximité de l’évènement (ou des différentes entités sportives dont ils sont partenaires) vis-à-vis de la responsabilité sociale, des liens perçus entre la responsabilité sociale de l’évènement et leur propre RSE, du focus de leurs initiatives responsables (liées à la responsabilité sociale de l’évènement, à celle d’une entité sportive particulière ou à la leur) ainsi que des liens entre les objectifs spécifiques des initiatives responsables et leur stratégie globale sur l’évènement. Pour les collectivités locales, il s’agit de leurs perceptions (positives ou négatives) des impacts de l’évènement, de la contrôlabilité perçue de ces impacts ainsi que du lien entre leur politique évènementielle, leur politique sportive globale (en particulier ses aspects sociaux) et leur politique environnementale. Pour chacun de ces acteurs, la combinaison de ces niveaux d’ambigüité aboutit à une pluralité de stratégies et d’actions de responsabilité sociale. Les études de cas montrent quant à elles que les évènements sportifs étudiés prennent place au sein d’un continuum allant d’un sensemaking contraint à un sensemaking non-contraint en fonction de l’origine et de la force du sensegiving. Le sensemaking contraint résulte d’une situation où les organisateurs se conforment au sens que leurs parties prenantes donnent à la responsabilité sociale de l’évènement. Il semble associé à une légitimité de type morale, à un faible degré stratégique de la responsabilité sociale du point de vue de l’organisateur ainsi qu’à une praxis de type « réduction des effets négatifs ». Le sensemaking non-contraint résulte d’une situation où les organisateurs contrôlent le processus de sensegiving. Il semble lié à une légitimité de type pragmatique ou cognitive, à un degré stratégique plus élevé et à une praxis de type « propagation d’effets positifs »<br>Since the early 2000’s, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has gained a growing interest in the sport management literature. It seems clear that CSR takes very particular forms in this field. This doctoral research more specifically deals with sporting events. Sporting events appear to be influenced, like other sport organizations, by two sets of determinants (Babiak & Wolfe, 2009), namely “unique internal resources” and “strong external pressures”. This work views sporting event’s social responsibility as a “black box” which the researcher has to open in order to understand how the different stakeholders make sense of it. It therefore aims two objectives: (1) to analyze the strategic sensemaking process (Thomas, Clark & Gioia, 1993; Selsky & Parker, 2010) of two main sporting events’ stakeholders – corporate sponsors and local governments; (2) to account on how the various stakeholders influence the collective sensegiving process (Gioia & Chittipeddi, 1991; Maitlis, 2005) resulting in social responsibility actions. This research is structured around three studies. The first-two are based on semi-structured interviews with corporate sponsors (N=23) and local governments (N=23). The third is composed of four case studies combining semi-structured interviews with sporting events organizers and their main stakeholders (N=27), on-site observation and document analysis. The results identify several levels of ambiguity which mark the sensemaking processes of both stakeholder categories. Concerning corporate sponsors, these levels include positive and negative perceptions about the link between sporting events and social responsibility, perceived links between sporting events’ social responsibility and their own CSR, perceived focus of social responsibility actions as well as perceived links bewtween these actions and their strategic objectives on the event. Concerning local governments, these levels include positive and negative perceptions about sporting events’ social impacts, perceived controllability of these impacts and perceived links between sporting events, the social aspects of global sport policies as well as environmental policies. For each of these actors, combinations of the various levels of ambiguity lead to the development of social responsibility strategies during the events. Case studies show that sporting events can be placed on a continuum between “constained” and “not-constrained” sensemaking depending on the origin and intensity of sensegiving activities. Constained sensemaking occurs when organizers conform to the sense imposed by stakeholders. It seems to be associated with moral legitimacy, a low strategic level and a “do no harm” praxis. Not-constrained sensemaking occurs when organizers keep the control of the sensemaking process. It seems to be associated with pragmatic and cognitive legitimacy, a strong strategic level and a “do good” praxis
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Fredline, Elizabeth. "Host Community Reactions to Major Sporting Events: The Gold Coast Indy and the Australian Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne." Thesis, Griffith University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366728.
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It is a widely held and not unfounded belief, that major events stimulate the local economy and 'showcase' the region to the world, potentially promoting future tourism and business activity. This is one of the major reasons that there is increasing private and public sector support for events based economic development strategies. There are other important positive impacts that are often associated with the staging of events, many of which may directly benefit the local population, including the development of facilities and infrastructure, entertainment and social opportunities, and a sense of pride brought about by playing host to a major event.
However, it is also clear that there are outcomes of staging an event that have a negative impact on the local population. Any event attracting large numbers of visitors to a relatively small area is likely to create some problems with noise, traffic, crowding and disruption. There are also likely to be other costs specific to the event or its implementation.
While some of the costs and benefits of an event may affect the whole community, others tend to impact on certain subgroups of the population. For example, residents who are involved in tourism may receive a direct economic benefit, and those who have a particular interest in the theme of the event socially and psychologically benefit, to the extent that they are entertained by it. Similarly, some subgroups are more affected than others by the negative impacts, particularly those living (or conducting their routine activities) closest to the event's focal point. The issue of the relative costs and benefits is therefore compounded by concerns about distributive justice.
This dissertation examines the ways in which local residents react to the staging of a major sporting event within their community. Two case studies, involving the Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne and the Gold Coast Indy Car Race, were examined within a framework that combined aspects of traditional methods of investigating host community perceptions of tourism with social representations theory. Social representations are the ways in which people perceive various phenomena in the world around them. By identifying these different 'patterns' of perceptions, and profiling the subgroups of the community who hold them, it is possible to gain a better understanding of both the tangible and intangible impacts of events, and how they differentially affect the quality of life of local residents.
Through a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, five different ways of perceiving the impacts of these events were examined. The five levels can be regarded as points along a continuum, ranging from extremely negative to very positive. The largest group identified, in the middle of the continuum, demonstrated ambivalence in terms of their views on the impact of the event on their quality of life. However, given that they perceived a slightly positive overall community impact, and were largely in favour of the continuation of the event, they can be regarded as being more similar to the positive groups.
In profiling the residents who held each of the representations identified, it was found that the most negative group was generally comprised of those residents whose routine activity space regularly included the focal points of the respective events. Very few members of this group had any financial involvement in tourism, and almost all of them were totally disinterested in motor racing.
At the other end of the continuum, in the most positive group, very high levels of interest in motor sport were observed, and more than half of this group worked in tourism or at least perceived some boost to levels of trade in their industry because of the event. The ambivalent group was characterised by low levels of contact with the areas around the respective tracks. They generally lived a long distance away and rarely travelled to the region.
The investigation of the spatial variation in the perception of event impacts was supplemented through a Geographic Information Systems Analysis, which mapped the perceptions of a number of impacts across the two cities. Finally, an examination of qualitative data, collected via open-ended questions presented to each respondent, provided greater depth of understanding of the basis for differing social representations. It also provided insight into the most salient issues that residents consider when contemplating the impact of an event.<br>Thesis (PhD Doctorate)<br>Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)<br>School of Tourism and Hotel Management<br>Griffith Business School<br>Full Text
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Sandfer, Jordan. "Host City, Inishmore." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2019. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/785.
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Marková, Jana. "ANALÝZA PŘÍNOSU BĚŽECKÝCH ZÁVODŮ PRAGUE INTERNATIONAL MARATHON PRO CESTOVNÍ RUCH." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-75069.
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The thesis deals with the assessment of the sporting events impact. The main aim is to assess the impact of the running races organized by Prague International Marathon objectively and to verify the hypothesis that organizing sporting events can have a positive impact on tourism of the country. The theoretical part explains the basic approaches of sport tourism and deals with the typology of the sporting events. The practical part analyses the impact of the PIM running races on tourism. The aim is to quantify the number of participants, to examine their structure, to calculate the economic impact, to examine media coverage and the social impact of the events.
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Shropshire, Kylea. "Sport, Corruption and Human Rights: the Case of FIFA." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-194539.
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This master thesis dissertation analyzes what kind of humanitarian issues can arise when international sporting events, such as the World Cup, are connected with powerful, global sporting organizations such as FIFA. It asks whether or not FIFA takes into consideration the positive and negative consequences that such an event might have on human rights? Or if FIFA chooses to ignore these rights in preference of organizational gain? For my investigation I decided to choose FIFA because it is one of the most important sports organizations in the world and wields a great deal of power thanks to its corporate partners and football's worldwide appeal. My hypothesis is simple: Decisions made by FIFA are heavily influenced by endemic corruption throughout the organization that does not prioritize citizen rights or human rights development more generally.
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JUNIOR, SERGIO VELOSO DOS SANTOS. "THE MONDIALISATION OF THE CURSE: A STUDY OF THE SPATIAL REALIZATION OF MEGA SPORTING EVENTS IN THE LIGHT OF GLOBALIZATION DEBATES." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2016. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=28519@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO<br>PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO<br>No mundo em que vivemos, megaeventos esportivos são cada vez mais frequentes, diversos e impactantes, tornando-se objetos de estudos das mais diversas áreas, disciplinas e correntes teóricas. Uma das relações mais comumente estabelecidas é entre esse tipo bastante específico e característico de evento e aquilo que se denomina globalização, uma vez que, de modo geral, megaeventos esportivos são apontados como eventos globais com impactos locais. A relação entre megaeventos e globalização levanta, então, dois problemas. Em primeiro lugar, faz-se necessário definir o que é globalização. Em segundo lugar, faz-se necessário entender, de fato, a relação entre megaeventos e globalização. Essa tese se dispõe a se engajar com ambos problemas: a partir de uma discussão teórica-conceitual acerca da problemática da globalização, busca-se compreender as dinâmicas sócioespaciais presentes nos processos de realização de megaeventos esportivos.<br>In the world we live in, mega sporting events are increasingly frequent, diverse and impactful, making it studies objects from various fields, disciplines, and theoretical perspectives. One of the most commonly established relationships is between this very particular and distinctive event and what globalization, since, in general, mega sporting events are seen as global events with local impacts. The relationship between mega-events and globalization raises two problems. First, it is necessary to define globalization. Second, there is a need to understand, in fact, the relationship between mega-events and globalization. This thesis is willing to engage with both problems: from a theoretical and conceptual discussions about globalization it tries to understand the sociospatial dynamics present in the realization of mega sporting events.
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Du, Wenjie (James). "EXAMINING THE INCREMENTAL EFFECTS OF PARTICIPANT SPORTING EVENTS IN PROMOTING ACTIVE LIVING: CREATING ACTIONABLE KNOWLEDGE TO TACKLE A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/428449.
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Tourism and Sport<br>Ph.D.<br>Using a theoretical synergy between the Psychological Continuum Model (PCM) and Behavioral Ecological Model (BEM), the current dissertation research provides empirical evidence to support that organized participant sporting events can play a significant role in building a healthier community. First, using a proprietary U.S. community-based panel data from 2008 to 2014, study 1 examines the incremental effects of participant sporting events (PSE) in promoting active living at the population level. Panel regression with an instrumental variable approach and Multigroup Latent Growth Curve Analysis were administered. The key findings included (1) these population-based interventions have the capacity to impact population health at the state level; (2) such an influence significantly varies across the United States contingent upon a state’s economic development and the geographical region to which a state belongs. In study 2, the Multilevel Mediation Analysis was conducted with a spatially clustered cross-sectional data in 2014. The findings revealed that the access to exercise opportunities at the state level represents the underlying mechanism through which various forms of participant sporting events have the ability to elicit positive effects on health with respects to mental health, physical health, and physical activity participation at the county level. The findings suggested that PSEs represent effective public health platform to create healthier communities through integrating physically active leisure into population’s everyday routines. Overall, empirical results also help us better understand the importance of effectively leveraging community sporting events to deliver required health benefits to the general public and create practical guidelines to inform policy formation on resource allocation.<br>Temple University--Theses
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Paiva, Rodrigo da Silva. "Falacias no planejamento do legado esportivo da Copa do Mundo FIFA nas doze cidades-sede no Brasil." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2018. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/21179.
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Previous issue date: 2018-03-23<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES<br>In Brazil, the public policies of sports and leisure have been targeted, since the realization of the
Pan American Games of 2007, by the explicit goal of designing internationally the country in
political and economic areas. The country hosted, in the range of a decade, the biggest sporting
events of the Earth: Military games (2011), Confederations Cup (2013), F.I.F.A. World Cup
(2014), America’s Cup (2015) and Olympic Games (2016). The argument adopted by the
managers of the different sublevels of government, explained in application documents of the
Ministry of Sports, to legitimize the assumption of an agenda too committed to sports, was that
the social legacy of sporting mega events would a modernization of infrastructure, upgrading of
services, social mobilization, economic decentralization, stimulation to the many forms of
innovation, commitment to the environment and sustainability, improvement of transparency in
public management and dissemination of sports. Taking this last aspect as main reference, the
objective of this study is to verify whether, and to what extent, the twelve host cities in Brazil
that received the F.I.F.A. World Cup planned programs of democratization as the legacy sports
mega event. For the study, were collected, analyzed and discussed the data gathered between
2012-2016 in a national project, World Cup cities, of note, proposing and monitoring of
documents prepared for the legacy of the World Cup, from carrying out a program led by a
sports institution of the third-sector, financed with public money and made possible through tax
waiver for the private sector, through the law of Incentive to the sport. Meetings were held with
all the sports Secretaries of host cities and other sectors of society. Compare arrays of
responsibilities and the legacy plans produced in Cities. The detailed analysis of a set of
indicators agreed by public managers, of the host cities, related to the sporting legacy, namely,
investment in infrastructure, professional training for the universalization of access to sports,
resizing of policies to encourage the social sport to the detriment of the elite sport and
performance and development of programs of universalizing access to sport in the school
environment, showed that no host city of FIFA World Cup designed any effective actions for the
sporting legacy. The Developed action plans did not guarantee the representation of diverse
interests of leather sports actors of each locale. Sports managers in multiple sublevels of
Government have shown little or no commitment to the sporting legacy. The elaborate plans
even became part of the political agenda of sports of host cities. The World Cup Cities Project,
with obsolete results, could never have been accomplished and, If the investments that consumed
were directed to the direct care of children and young people in long-term sports programs
would decrease the contradiction as fallacious speech sporting legacy of the mega event and the
implementation of public policies for universalization of access to sports<br>No Brasil, as políticas públicas de esportes e lazer tem sido orientadas, desde a realização dos
jogos Pan-americanos de 2007, pelo objetivo explícito de projetar internacionalmente o país, nos
âmbitos, político e econômico. O país sediou, no intervalo alargado de uma década os maiores
eventos esportivos da terra: Jogos Militares (2011), Copa das Confederações (2013), Copa Do
Mundo F.I.F.A. de futebol (2014), Copa América (2015) e Jogos Olímpicos (2016). O
argumento adotado pelos gestores, dos diferentes subníveis de governo, explicitado nos
documentos de candidatura do Ministério dos Esportes, para legitimar a assunção de uma agenda
demasiadamente comprometida com esportes era a de que o legado social dos megaeventos
esportivos possibilitaria uma modernização da infraestrutura, requalificação dos serviços,
mobilização social, descentralização econômica, estímulo às múltiplas formas de inovação,
compromisso com o meio-ambiente e sustentabilidade, aprimoramento da transparência na
gestão pública e disseminação da prática esportiva. Tomando este último aspecto como principal
referência, o objetivo deste estudo foi verificar se, e em que medida, as doze cidades-sede
brasileiras que receberam a Copa do Mundo de Futebol F.I.F.A. planejaram programas de
democratização esportiva como legado do megaevento. Para a realização do estudo, foram
coletados, analisados e discutidos os dados reunidos entre os anos de 2012-2016 em um projeto
nacional, Cidades da Copa, de observação, proposição e monitoramento de documentos
elaborados para o legado da copa, a partir da realização de um programa capitaneado por uma
instituição esportiva do terceiro-setor, financiado com dinheiro público e viabilizado por meio de
renúncia fiscal do setor privado, através da Lei de Incentivo ao Esporte. Realizaram-se encontros
com todos os secretários de esportes das cidades-sede e demais setores da sociedade.
Comparam-se as matrizes de responsabilidades e os planos de legado produzidos no Cidades da
Copa. A análise pormenorizada de um conjunto de indicadores acordados pelos gestores
públicos, das cidades-sede, relacionados ao legado esportivo, quais sejam, investimentos em
infraestrutura, qualificação profissional para a universalização do acesso ao esporte,
redimensionamento de políticas de incentivo ao esporte social em detrimento do esporte
elitizado e de rendimento, desenvolvimento de programas de universalização do acesso ao
esporte no ambiente escolar, demonstrou que nenhuma cidade-sede da Copa do Mundo
prospectou quaisquer ações efetivas para o legado esportivo. Os planos de ação desenvolvidos
não garantiam a representatividade do cabedal diversificado de interesse dos atores esportivos de
cada localidade. Os gestores do esporte nos múltiplos subníveis de governo demonstraram pouco
ou nenhum comprometimento com o legado esportivo. Os planos elaborados sequer passaram a
fazer parte da agenda política de esportes das cidades-sede. O Projeto Cidades da Copa, com
resultados obsoletos, poderia nunca ter sido realizado e se os investimentos que consumiu
fossem direcionados ao atendimento direto de crianças e jovens em programas esportivos de
longo prazo diminuiria a contradição quanto ao discurso falacioso de legado esportivo do
megaevento e a efetivação de políticas públicas de universalização de acesso ao esporte
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Engelberg, Erin Terry. "The Commitment of Volunteers in Junior Sporting Organisations: A Mixed Methods Study." Thesis, Griffith University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/368078.
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The purpose of this research was to examine the dimensionality and targets of the commitment of volunteers (including committee members, coaches, officials, and volunteers in various other roles) in junior sport organisations, and the links between commitment and behavioural outcomes, specifically, intention to stand down from a volunteer role, intention to cease volunteering for the club or centre, and self-assessed performance. A sequential explanatory mixed methods design consisting of a quantitative (two studies) and a qualitative phase (one study) was employed. Drawing on Meyer and Herscovitch’s (2001) general commitment model, the quantitative studies assessed commitment to three organisational targets: the organisation (defined as the centre or the club), the team of volunteers, and the volunteer role. Participants were recruited from Little Athletics centres in New South Wales (Metropolitan Region) for the first study. Survey instruments were distributed to volunteers during a regional championship with 27 participating centres. One hundred and nine surveys were completed and returned. The data were subjected to reliability analyses and then analysed with techniques such as correlations, t-tests and ANOVAs. This study found that volunteers had distinctive affective commitments to the three targets assessed.
The second study, building on the findings of the first one, refined the survey measures and also examined intention to stand down from the volunteer role, intention to cease volunteering for the club or centre, and self-assessed performance. Participants were recruited from Little Athletics centres in Queensland. Survey instruments were mailed to all 120 centres. Two hundred and four surveys from participants representing 52 centres were completed and returned. The data were analysed with Partial Least Squares modeling (PLS), stepwise regression, and logistic regression. This study found that volunteers held distinctive affective and normative commitments to the three targets, and that each target was related to a behavioural outcome. Specifically, organisational commitment and commitment to the role were related to self-assessed performance, commitment to the role was related to intention to stand down from the volunteer role, and commitment to the team of volunteers was related to intention to cease volunteering for the centre or club. The study also showed that committee members had a stronger commitment than volunteers in other roles, and that volunteers without children (or without children currently enrolled in the volunteers’ respective centres) had a stronger commitment than volunteers with children. Volunteers with more experience, particularly those with four or more seasons of experience, had significantly stronger commitment than volunteers with less experience...<br>Thesis (PhD Doctorate)<br>Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)<br>School of Education and Professional Studies<br>Full Text
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Долгова, Наталія Олександрівна, Наталия Александровна Долгова, Nataliia Oleksandrivna Dolgova та Д. Шугалій. "Перша долікарняна допомога при нещасних випадках під час проведення спортивних заходів". Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2009. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/17158.
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Mankus, Egidijus. "Sportinių renginių organizavimas mokyklose." Bachelor's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2014. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2014~D_20140620_112607-21660.
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Darbo problema: ar sporto renginiai yra populiarūs ir reikalingi mokyklose?
Tyrimo objektas: mokinių ir mokytojų nuomonė apie mokykloje organizuojamus sporto renginius.
Tyrimo tikslas: nustatyti ir palyginti mokinių ir mokytojų nuomonę apie mokykloje organizuojamus sportinius renginius.
Baigiamojo darbo uždaviniai:
1. Nustatyti mokykloje organizuojamų sportinių renginių dažnį, rūšis ir požiūrį į juos mokytojų ir mokinių nuomone.
2. Nustatyti sportinių renginių lankomumą mokytojų ir mokinių nuomone.
3. Nustatyti veiksnius, skatinančius dalyvauti sportiniuose renginiuose mokytojų ir mokinių nuomone.
4. Nustatyti sportinių renginių poreikį ir jų poveikį kitiems dėstomiems dalykams mokytojų ir mokinių nuomone.
Išvados:
1. Mokytojų ir mokinių nuomone sporto renginiai mokyklose yra organizuojami kas 3 – 6 mėnesius. Dažniausiai mokyklose yra organizuojami sporto renginiai susieti su krepšiniu. Mokiniams yra suteikiamos tinkamos sąlygos lankytis sportiniuose renginiuose, kurių laikas yra suderinamas su pamokų laiku ir renginiuose gali dalyvauti visi norintieji. Mokytojai dažniau nei mokiniai teigiamai vertina mokyklose organizuojamus sportinius renginius.
2. Mokiniai dažniau nei mokytojai mano, jog sportiniais renginiais labiau domisi berniukai. Mokiniai dažniau nei mokytojai mano, kad aktyviausi sporto renginiuose yra 8-10 klasių moksleiviai. Mokiniai dažniau nei mokytojai nurodė, kad moksleiviai dažniausiai lankosi tik tam tikro pobūdžio renginiuose.
3. Vyksiančiais sporto... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]<br>Problem: are sporting events popular and required at school?
Object: teachers and students opinion about sporting events organized at school
Purpose: to determine and to compare students' teachers' opinions about sports events organized at school.
Tasks:
1. To set frequency, type, teachers and students approach to sporting events organized at school.
2. To set attendance of sporting events by students' and teachers' opinions.
3. To identify factors that encourage participation in sporting events by students' and teachers' opinions.
4. To identify need of sporting events and their effect to other taught school subject.
Conclusions.
1. Teachers` and students` consider that school sporting events are held every 3-6 months (p = 0.209). More often at schools are organized sports activities related to basketball (p = 0.432). Students have right conditions to visit sporting events, which are consistent with their school time and open to all who want to participate in them (p = 0.251). Teachers more often than students assess sporting events at schools better (p = 0.000).
2. Students more often than teachers believe that boys are more interested in sporting events (p = 0.043). Students more often than teachers believe that the most active in sporting events are students of grade 8-10 (p = 0.041). Students more often than teachers indicate that students usually visit only certain types of events (p = 0.004).
3. Students are interested of ongoing sporting events presenting them... [to full text]
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Le, Clinche Servane. "Etude de la prise en considération de la spécificité du contexte sportif dans l’attachement des spectateurs aux composantes des événements sportifs liés : Cas de la place du cheval dans les concours équestres." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016SACLS370/document.
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Ce projet doctoral a pour finalité d’investiguer la place de la spécificité d’un contexte sportif, dans le processus d’adaptation de l’échelle de mesure Points of Attachment Index à un terrain d’étude particulier. Cette échelle se propose de mesurer l’attachement des spectateurs à l’égard des composantes des événements sportifs. Les concepts d’attachement, voire d’attachement émotionnel sont mobilisés dans les recherches sur la relation spectateurs - événements sportifs. Considéré comme animal, athlète et coproducteur de la pratique en tant que spécificité du milieu sportif, le cheval est étudié dans le contexte français et équestre. La question de recherche tend ainsi à s’intéresser à la prise en compte de cette spécificité dans l’utilisation d’une échelle de mesure dédiée à l’attachement des spectateurs aux composantes des événements sportifs liés au contexte sportif examiné. Pour cela, différentes étapes articulées sous forme d’études ont été menées. Après avoir identifié et observé les parties prenantes des concours équestres visibles par les spectateurs, une étude qualitative menée auprès 42 spectateurs nous a permis de mieux appréhender la relation affective vis-à-vis des composantes des concours équestres, et d’ainsi faire émerger des items propres à la composante « spécificité ». Par la suite, une étude quantitative (n=463) nous a donné l’opportunité d’analyser la place de cette spécificité dans l’échelle de mesure adaptée, ainsi que sa place dans l’attachement des spectateurs aux composantes des concours équestres. En conclusion, ces résultats se proposent de présenter de nouvelles connaissances quant à la relation spectateur-événement sportif, ainsi que, de suggérer l’éventualité d’adapter les instruments de mesure mobilisée au contexte étudiée (et implicitement étudier ses spécificités) dans la finalité d’être au plus près de la réalité du terrain<br>This thesis aims at investigating the position of the specificity of sport context, in the adapted Points of Attachment Index scale to a particular filed. This scale measures the spectators' attachment to sporting event and their dimensions. Attachment and emotional attachment concepts are used for spectator-sporting event relationships researches. As a specificity of sport, we study horse in French and equestrian context. This research tends to examine the consideration of this specificity of scale. Several steps of this thesis are associated with studies. Firstly, we identify the stakeholders of equestrian competitions, with spectator’s equestrian sporting event. The main goal of this study is to emerge “specificity-horse” items. Then, a quantitative study is conducted (n=463). On the one hand, it gives us the opportunity to analyze the consideration of specificity dimension to adapted scale. On the other hand, we examine spectators’ attachment to horse and other dimensions of sporting events. These results provide a better understanding of spectator-sporting event relationships. For it, this research suggests to examine sport and cultural context and to adapt scale, in order to make the results representing the field reality at its best