Information, Knowledge and the Organization of the Olympic Games

Halbwirth, Sue; Toohey, Kristine

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“…Overwhelmingly, the transactional nature of NSO and SSO involvement in large-scale sport events means the sport development benefits of hosting large-scale sport events are limited to discrete outcomes, such as increased knowledge and professionalism (Halbwirth & Toohey, 2013;Parent, 2008;Werner, Dickson, & Hyde, 2015) and development of officials and volunteers (Dickson, Darcy, Edwards, & Terweil, 2015;Doherty, 2009). Such scenarios fall short of the academic literature's call for consensus on visions for legacy and plans and relevant resource levels of the sport system to build capacity to enable legacies (Gold & Gold, 2009;Macrae, 2017;May et al, 2013), such as mass sport participation legacies.…”

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The Political Economy of Mass Sport Participation Legacies From Large-Scale Sport Events: A Conceptual Paper

Thomson

Toohey

Darcy

2021

Journal of Sport Management

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Sport event studies have demonstrated that relevant stakeholders must share objectives and coordinate efforts to leverage a large-scale sport event to secure positive legacies. However, the challenging and complex task of collaboration between networks of diverse organizational stakeholders to secure legacies has received little scholarly attention. In this conceptual paper, the authors explore, through a political economy lens, differences between the political economies of sports and sport events pertaining to mass sport participation legacies. The authors focus on the mesolevel and consider how divergences in political economy elements—structure and context, stakeholders and ideas/incentives, and bargaining processes—influence the likelihood of mass sport participation legacies from large-scale sport events. The authors suggest a need for event legacy stakeholders to engage more meaningfully with the complexities surrounding securing mass sport participation legacies. In addition, they provide pragmatic, actionable implications for policy and practice to assist stakeholders in addressing the challenges they face to maximize legacy outcomes.

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The Political Economy of Mass Sport Participation Legacies From Large-Scale Sport Events: A Conceptual Paper

Thomson

Toohey

Darcy

2021

Journal of Sport Management

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“…Second, the IOC holds workshops on specific topics, such as transportation, and supplies such workshop material to NOCs. Third, the IOC allows access to a vast online repository of documents on Olympic Games knowledge management and maintains a list of international consultants who specialize in Olympic knowledge (see Halbwirth and Toohey, 2013). No matter from whom Olympic bidders learn, Lenskyj (2012) critiques that Olympic knowledge is taught without critical evaluation, even in university courses.…”

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“Failure to adjust”: Boston’s bid for the 2024 Olympics and the difficulties of learning Olympic wisdom

Kaßens-Noor¹

2019

Environ Plan A

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Local resistance often cancels Olympic bids. Boston's infamous bid failure was one of the first that demonstrated how local resistance can diminish boosters' aspirations. As an insider to the bidding process, I trace the adjustment strategies of Boston's bidding committee, B2024, to bid opposition over the course of Boston's 2024 Olympic bid (2014)(2015). I analyze the institutional learning that occurred and find B2024 learned through Olympic networks that won Olympic bids. These Olympic networks failed to learn amidst changing local circumstances and applied old solutions to new problems. While facing four crises, B2024 staff learned the complexities of Olympic bidding in a high-pressure learning environment that did not allow for trial and error. Against anti-Olympic movements, B2024 responded with fire-extinguishing techniques rather than plotting an organized strategy. While bidding, city governments must learn from failed bids to attain Olympic wisdom, which requires mastery of Olympic, counter-Olympic, and local knowledge. Using B2024's learning process, I draw lessons for policy on learning and organizing complex projects with tight timelines and high uncertainty.

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Creating and leveraging knowledge to promote sport participation: the role of public governing bodies of sport

Girginov

Toohey

Willem

2015

European Sport Management Quarterly

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Information, Knowledge and the Organization of the Olympic Games

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The Political Economy of Mass Sport Participation Legacies From Large-Scale Sport Events: A Conceptual Paper

The Political Economy of Mass Sport Participation Legacies From Large-Scale Sport Events: A Conceptual Paper

“Failure to adjust”: Boston’s bid for the 2024 Olympics and the difficulties of learning Olympic wisdom

Creating and leveraging knowledge to promote sport participation: the role of public governing bodies of sport

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