Abstract des Autors

In this chapter, the author explores the framework she developed in her paper titled 'Evolution and issue patterns for major-sport-event organizing committees and their stakeholders' , published in the Journal of Sport Management (Parent, 2008). This study was part of her doctoral dissertation, in which she took an organisation theory perspective to understand the type of organisation (temporary, project, business, passion, adrenaline, etc.) an organising committee is, how it changes or evolves, who surrounds the organising committee, and what do they want/need. To do so, the author drew on stakeholder theory and issues management, sister theories under the corporate social responsibility (CSR) banner (Carroll, 1999; Wood, 1991). She also considered what literature was available in terms of organisational evolution and issues pertaining to sports events. These theoretical underpinnings helped guide methodology decisions and resulted in the empirically derived sport event organising committee and stakeholder framework, which answered the study's purpose. In the first part of this chapter, the author discusses the theoretical basis of her study, followed by the final framework itself, boundary considerations and how she has applied the framework in subsequent research. Then she moves on to describing the process she used to derive the theoretical underpinnings and the final framework, as well as extensions and applications of that framework. The author ends the chapter with some future directions that she trusts will benefit theory, research, practice and teaching.
A short essay with the title “Applying stakeholder theory” is added to the chapter, in which the author Dag Vidar Hanstad traces the impact of the theory on his research and highlights possible future research directions. (geändert)