In toenemende mate wordt er onderzoek gedaan naar de economische en maatschappelijke effecten van sportevenementen (Cashman et al., 2004). Veel onderzoek wordt uitgevoerd in opdracht van beleidsmakers en de politiek om de publieke financiering van sportevenementen te legitimeren. De focus van dit type onderzoek ligt veelal op korte termijn economische impact, maar de aandacht verschuift steeds meer richting lange termijn effecten (legacy) die zowel positief als negatief kunnen uitpakken (Preuss, 2007). Sportevenementen kunnen een sociale impact hebben op deelnemers, vrijwilligers en lokale communities door het creëren van sociale netwerken, trots, in- en uitsltuiting, cohesie, veranderingen in attitudes en tradities etc (Richards, De Brito & Wilks, 2013).
Abstract for the European Association of Sociology for Sport conference in Dublin on the development over time of social impact evaluations in the Netherlands. In total 33 sport events were included that were held between 1980-2015 in the Netherlands. The events were selected to vary in fixed vs. mobile, participative or elite sports. Only mega, large and hallmark events were included. A multiple case study was conducted based on secondary resources. The events’ objectives were identified from documents from the various involved stakeholders. In total over 300 documents were analyzed.
English is increasingly the dominant language of academic scholarship. This means that much research produced in other languages is overlooked, a tendency strengthened by the growing power of global publishers and university ranking systems. This initial scoping study provides an exploratory review of non-English scholarship in the field of event management, drawing on an extensive literature search in Arabic, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Slovenian and Spanish. We find a considerable number of event management publications in these languages, which effectively represent a ‘missing body of knowledge’ for scholars working in English. Only about 10% of these non-English sources are covered by Scopus, for example. Our scoping study indicates that this excludes many scholars and potentially interesting areas of work from the global event management corpus. We suggest several strategies which could be employed to address these issues.
