This chapter investigates the deeply mediatized experience of place and space within the lived practice of events by studying two annual Dutch cultural events as cases: Oerol Festival (2017) and 3FM Serious Request (2017). Drawing on substantial datasets containing online and offline participant observations, both short in situ interviews and longer in-depth interviews with a total of 248 interviewees and large datasets from Twitter and Instagram, this chapter demonstrates that media concurrently de-spatialize, in the sense that they diminish spatial borders and overcome distance, and affirm embodied experiences of being-in-place. I argue that it is liveness - the potential connection, through media, to events that matter to us as they unfold - that creates the closeness between the near and the far elements within the “eventsphere” and binds it all together into one event-space.
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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.
Abstract for the European Association for Sport Management conference 2015 in Dublin. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the side-event program, with the focus on social, cultural, sportive and economic objectives. Further, the aim is to gain insight in how an major elite sport event can be socially leveraged through a side-event program.
Digital transformation has been recognized for its potential to contribute to sustainability goals. It requires companies to develop their Data Analytic Capability (DAC), defined as their ability to collect, manage and analyze data effectively. Despite the governmental efforts to promote digitalization, there seems to be a knowledge gap on how to proceed, with 37% of Dutch SMEs reporting a lack of knowledge, and 33% reporting a lack of support in developing DAC. Participants in the interviews that we organized preparing this proposal indicated a need for guidance on how to develop DAC within their organization given their unique context (e.g. age and experience of the workforce, presence of legacy systems, high daily workload, lack of knowledge of digitalization). While a lot of attention has been given to the technological aspects of DAC, the people, process, and organizational culture aspects are as important, requiring a comprehensive approach and thus a bundling of knowledge from different expertise. Therefore, the objective of this KIEM proposal is to identify organizational enablers and inhibitors of DAC through a series of interviews and case studies, and use these to formulate a preliminary roadmap to DAC. From a structure perspective, the objective of the KIEM proposal will be to explore and solidify the partnership between Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas), Avans University of Applied Sciences (Avans), Logistics Community Brabant (LCB), van Berkel Logistics BV, Smink Group BV, and iValueImprovement BV. This partnership will be used to develop the preliminary roadmap and pre-test it using action methodology. The action research protocol and preliminary roadmap thereby developed in this KIEM project will form the basis for a subsequent RAAK proposal.
Uiteindelijk bleek er nipt onvoldoende politiek draagvlak om het traject tot uitvoering te brengen. De aanpak 'vanuit maatschappelijke waarde naar het ontwerp van een vernieuwend evenement' heeft wel veel positieve reacties opgeleverd.Als kennispartner van het WK Wielrennen 2020 initiatief is het lectoraat Praktijkgerichte Sportwetenschap betrokken geweest vanaf de eerste business case, via het haalbaarheidsonderzoek tot een bijdrage aan het op een rijtje zetten van feiten voor het lobby traject.
Sportevenementen worden veelal mede mogelijk gemaakt door bijdragen vanuit de lokale, regionale of nationale overheid. Er mag van een sportevenement dan ook worden verwacht dat het een bijdrage levert aan de lokale gemeenschap, stad, of land (Gratton, Shibli & Coleman, 2005; Dickson, Benson, & Blackman, 2011; Hiller, 2000). Steeds vaker wordt er kritisch gekeken naar de maatschappelijke bijdrage die een sportevenement genereerd. Weegt deze wel op tegen de publieke kosten? De afgelopen 30 jaar wordt er dan ook steeds meer onderzoek gedaan naar de effecten die evenementen hebben op de lokale gemeenschap (Cashman, Toohey, Darcy, Symons & Stewert, 2004). Hierbij was de focus in het verleden vooral gericht op de bijdrage aan de lokale economie, maar steeds meer worden ook de maatschappelijke bijdragen geëvalueerd (Preuss, 2007). Maar wat is de sociaal-maatschappelijke impact van evenementen en hoe kan deze optimaal worden benut, bestendigd en geëvalueerd?
