Abstract des Autors

This chapter offers an examination of: 1) governance processes, specifically the coordination aspects between sport event stakeholders; and 2) the relationship between sport event governance and social media. To do so, the authors draw on a comparative case study of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games and the 2012 London Olympic Games for the first part of the purpose, and use ethnographic observations from the 2016 Lillehammer Winter Youth Olympic Games to address the second part of the purpose. Their findings highlight six network governance coordination themes integrated into a coordination framework suggesting how a sport event stakeholder’s activities and procedures can be influenced by other public, non-profit and private organizations in the event network. Finally, the authors found that social media at a sport event remains a challenge given the ‘overshadowing’ that may occur as a result of multiple stakeholders offering competing strategies or operationalizing social platforms for their own interests. Social media is integrated with the governance themes into a model of factors associated with international multi-sport event governance.