Event Management

(Previously published as Festival Management & Event Tourism)

Editor-in-Chief: Mike Duignan
Volume 26, 2022

ISSN: 1525-9951; E-ISSN: 1943-4308
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Aims & Scope

Aims & Scope

Event Management is the leading peer-reviewed international journal for the study and analysis of events and festivals, meeting the research and educational needs of this rapidly growing industry for more than 20 years.

We:

Publish high-quality interdisciplinary event studies work and therefore promote a broad spectrum of theoretical perspectives from management and organizational studies to sociology and social science.
Encourage the study of all kinds of physical, digital, and hybrid events from small- to large-scale cultural and sporting events, festivals, meetings, conventions, exhibitions, to expositions, across a range of geographical and cultural contexts.
Actively support authors to take a critical perspective concerning the power and potential of events as a force for social, economic, and environmental good, while challenging where events can do better and make a positive contribution to society.
Promote bold, interesting, relevant research problems and questions. Examples include why events play a key role for individual and collective transformational experiences; how social movements like #BlackLivesMatter and #Metoo can be advanced by attaching to events like the Academy Awards; through to the way large-scale events are leveraged for urban regeneration and community development.
Believe research insights are integral to high-quality learning and teaching and we encourage all authors to transform manuscript into a set of Event Management branded PowerPoint slides for colleagues to integrate into research informed and hybrid teaching approaches. Where provided by authors, slides will feature alongside each published manuscript for ease. All subscribing organizations and authors will have access to this library of learning and teaching content.

We offer authors four routes to publication, with simple submission guideline (see “Submission guidelines” tab).

Research article – a traditional submission route of up to 10,000 words focused on contributing to theory.
Research note – a short note of up to 2,000 words focused on providing novel and/or innovative insights to contribute to our body of theory and/or empirical knowledge. These can also include debates and/or commentaries.
Event case study – a new route of up to 10,000 words providing in-depth empirical insights and application of existing theoretical ideas to a specific event or series of events.
Event education – a new route of up to 10,000 words providing in-depth insights into events-related education policy and/or practice for colleagues to support high-quality international learning and teaching experiences.

Event Management is governed by a high-quality editorial board consisting of international leading experts across a range of disciplines and fields, including events, tourism, sport, hospitality, to business studies (see “Editorial board” tab).

Our double-blind peer review process is rigorous and supportive.

STEP 1: All manuscripts submitted to Event Management will go through a rigorous screening process by either the Editor-in-Chief or Deputy Editors to be desk rejected or progressed to one of 40+ Associate Editors who handle the review process.

STEP 2: An Associate Editor reviews the manuscript and decides whether to progress or rejected. If progressed, 2-3 members of the Editorial Advisory Board or those with appropriate expertise are invited to review with an average 2-3 rounds of peer review. Authors have 8 weeks to revise and resubmit for each round of peer review.

STEP 3: Toward the end of peer review the Associate Editor recommends a final decision to the Editor-in-Chief or Deputy Editor who makes the final decision and provides final constructive feedback where appropriate.

STEP 4: Manuscripts accepted are swiftly uploaded to our “Fast Track” system with a DOI while our editorial assistants work with authors to deal with author queries before final manuscripts are made available. FINAL PUBLISHED ARTICLES WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE AS FREE ACCESS (at no charge) ON INGENTA CONNECT FOR A PERIOD OF 15 DAYS and will be actively promoted by our Social Media Editor who works with authors to create a short tweet and author video alongside free links to promote colleagues’ work, across our Twitter and LinkedIn sites. (After the 15 days manuscripts will only be available to subscribers, unless the author has paid for the Open Access option.)

Editorial Board

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:
Mike Duignan
Head of Department and Reader in Events
Director, Observatory of Human Rights and Major Events (HaRM)
School of Hospitality and Tourism Management
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Surrey, UK
eventmanagementjournal@outlook.com

Deputy Editors
Leonie Lockstone-Binney, Griffith University, Australia
David McGillivray, University West of Scotland, UK
Milena Parent, University of Ottawa, Canada
Emma Wood, Leeds Beckett University, UK

Editorial Managing Editor
Aaron Tkaczynski, The University of Queensland, Australia

Social Media Editor
Seth Kirby, Nottingham Trent University, UK

Special Advisors
Laurence Chalip, George Mason University, USA
Alan Fyall, University of Central Florida, USA
Leo Jago, University of Surrey, UK
Adele Ladkin, Bournemouth University, UK
Stephen Page, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Holger Preuss, University of Mainz, Germany
Richard Shipway, Bournemouth University, UK

Co-Founding Editors
Donald Getz, University of Calgary, Canada
Bruce Wicks, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Associate Editors
Tom Fletcher, Leeds Beckett University, UK (Chair of the Associate Editors Board)
Kayode Aleshinloye, University of Central Florida, USA
Jane Ali-Knight, Edinburgh Napier, UK
Charles Arcodia, Griffith University, Australia
Sandro Carnicelli, University of The West of Scotland, UK
Chris Chen, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Willem Coetzee, University of Otago, New Zealand
Alba Colombo, Universitat Oberta De Catalunya, Spain
Simon Darcy, University Technology Sydney, Australia
Kate Dashper, Leeds Beckett University, UK
Tracey Dickson, University of Canberra, Australia
Sally Everett, Kings College London, UK
Sheranne Fairley, The University of Queensland, Australia
Kevin Filo, Griffith University, Australia
Rebecca Finkel, Queen Margaret University, UK
Chris Gaffney, New York University, USA
Sandra Goh, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Kirsten Holmes, Curtin University, Australia
Xin Jin, Griffith University, Australia
Kiki Kaplanindou, University of Florida, USA
Donna Kelly, The University of Technology, Jamaica
James Kennel, University of Greenwich, UK
Zengxian (Jason) Liang, Sun Yat-sun University, China
Eleni Michopoulou, University of Derby, UK
Laure Misener, Western University, Canada
Bri Newland, New York University, USA
Martin Robertson, Edinburgh Napier, UK
Debra Sadd, Bournemouth University, UK
Nikolaos Pappas, University of Sunderland, UK
Luke Potwarka, University of Waterloo, Canada
Greg Richards, Breda University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
Martin Schnitzer, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Nancy Stevenson, University of Westminster, UK
Louise Todd, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Oscar Vorobjovas-Pinta, University of Tasmania, Australia
Karin Weber, Hong Kong Polytechnic, Hong Kong
Nicholas Wise, Arizona State University, USA
Jinsheng (Jason) Zhu, Guilin Tourism University & Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Vassillios Ziakas, University of Surrey, UK

Editorial Advisory Board
Rutendo Musikavanhu, Coventry University, UK (Chair of the Editorial Advisory Board)
John Armbrecht, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Jarrett Bachman, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Canada
Kenneth Backman*, Clemson University, USA
Sheila Backman, Clemson University, USA
Jina Hyejin Bang, Florida International University, USA
Graham Berridge, University of Surrey, UK
Rui Biscaia, University of Bath, UK
Charles Bladen, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Kerri Bodin, University of Ottawa, Canada
Soyoung Boo, Georgia State University, USA
Glenn Bowdin, Leeds Beckett University, UK
Ian Brittain, Coventry University, UK
Alyssa Brown, University of Sunderland, UK
Federica Burini, University of Bergamo, Italy
Krzysztof Celuch, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
Jean-Loup Chappelet, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Gyoyang Chen, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Andres Coca Stefaniak, University of Greenwich, UK
Ubaldino Couto, Macao Institute for Tourism Studies, China
Juliet Davis, Cardiff University, UK
Emma Delaney, University of Surrey, UK
Simon Down, University of Birmingham UK and Högskolan Kristianstad, Sweden
Colin Drake, Victoria University, Australia
Jason Draper, University of Houston, USA
Martin Falk, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway
Nicole Ferdinand, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Carmel Foley, University Technology Sydney, Australia
Susanne Gellweiler, Dresden School of Management, Germany
David Gogishvili, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
John Gold, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Barbara Grabher, University of Graz, Austria
Jeannie Hahm, University of Central Florida, UK
Kirsten Hallman, German Sport University Cologne, Germany
Elizabeth Halpenny, University of Alberta, Canada
Marcus Hansen, Liverpool Johyn Moores University, UK
Luke Harris, University of Birmingham, UK
Najmeh Hassanli, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Burcin Hatipoglu, University of New South Wales, Australia
Christopher Hautbois, University of Paris, France
Claire Haven-Tang, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK
Ted Hayduck, New York University, USA
Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, University of South Australia, Australia
Yoshifusa Ichii, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Jinyoung Im, Oklahoma State University, USA
Dewi Jaimangal-Jones, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK
David Jarman, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Allan Jepson, Herts University, UK
Eva Kassens-Noor, Michigan State University, USA
Jamie Kenyon, Loughborough University, UK
Brendon Knott, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa
Nicole Koenig-Lewis, Cardiff University, UK
Joerg Koenigstorder, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Maximiliano Korstanje, University of Palermo, Argetina
Niki Koutrou, Bournemouth University, UK
Jeetesh Kumar, Taylor’s University, Malaysia
Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, Koszalin University of Technology, Poland
Chantal Laws, University of Westminster, UK
Weng Si (Clara) Lei, Macao Institute for Tourism Studies, China
Clifford Lewis, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Jason Li, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Erik Lundberg, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Emily Mace, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Judith Mair, University of Queensland, Australia
Matt McDowell, University of Edinburgh, UK
Majd Megheirkouni, Abertay University, UK
James Musgrave, Leeds Beckett University, UK
Barbara Neuhofer, University of Salzburg University, Austria
Margarida Abreu Novais, Griffith University, Australia
Danny O’Brien, Bond University, Australia
Eric D. Olson, Metropolitan State University of Denver, USA
Faith Ong, University of Queensland, Australia
Ilaria Pappalepore, University of Westminster, UK
Emilio Fernandez Pena, Universitat Autonoma De Barclelona, Spain
Marko Peric, University of Rijeka, Croatia
Hongxia Qi, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Meg Qu (Mo), Hiroshima University, Japan
Bernadette Quinn, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
Gregory Ramshaw, Clemson University, USA
Vanessa Ratten, La Trobe University, Australia
Tiago Ribeiro, University of Libson, Portugal
Alector Ribiero, University of Surrey, UK
Darine Sabadova, University of Surrey, UK
Katie Schlenker, Univesity of Technology Sydney, Australia
Hugues Seraphin, Winchester Universtiy, UK
Jonathan Skinner, University of Surrey, UK
Ryan Snelgrove, University of Waterloo, Canada
Sarah Snell, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Sonny Son, University of South Australia, Australia
Ching-Hui (Joan) Su, Iowa State University, USA
Kamilla Swart-Arries, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
Adam Talbot, Coventry University, UK
Jessica Templeton, University of Greenwich, UK
Aaron Tham, University of The Sunshine Coast, Australia
Eleni Theodoraki, University of Dublin, UK
Jill Timms, University of Surrey, UK
Danai Varveri, Metropolitan College, Greece
Trudie Walters, Independent, New Zealand
Xueli (Shirley) Wang, Tsinghua University, China
Stephen Wassong, German Sport University, Germany
Craig Webster, Ball State University, USA
Jon Welchy Peachy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Kim Werner, Hochschule Osnabruck, Germany
Mark Wickham, University of Tasmania, Australia
Kyle Woosnam, University of Georgia, USA
Jialin (Snow) Wu, Huddersfield University, UK
Sakura Yamamura, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany
Pamela Zigomo, University of Greenwich, UK

*(Remaining Editor-in-Chief for submissions pre-November 2021)

PhD/ECR Editorial Board
Erik L. Lachance, University of Ottawa, Canada (Chair of the PhD/ECR Editorial Board)
Oluwaseyi Aina, The University of The West of Scotland, Scotland
Sarah Ariai, Universtiy of Waterloo, Canada
Elizabeth Ashcroft, University of Surrey, UK
Jordan T. Bakhsh, Universtiy of Ottawa, Canada
Sara Belotti, University of Bergamo, Italy
Nicola Cade, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Libby Carter, Birmingham City University, UK
David Cook, Coventry University, UK
Karen Davies, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK
Skyler Fleshman, University of Florida, USA
Mu He, University of Alberta, Canada
Meg Hibbins, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Jie Min Ho, Curtin University, Malaysia
Montire Intason, Naresuan University, Thailand
Denise Kamyuka, Western University, Canada
Wanwisa Khampanya, University of Surrey, UK
Jason King, Leeds Beckett University, UK
Truc Le, Griffith University, Australia
Yanning Li, University of Surrey, UK
Kelly McManus, University of Waterloo, Canada
Heelye Park, Iowa State University, USA
Jihye Park, University of Central Florida, USA
Erin Pearson, Western University, Canada
Benedetta Piccio, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Juliana Rodrigues Vieira Tkatch, University of Central Florida, USA
Giulia Rossetti, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Briony Sharp, University of The West of Scotland, UK
Smita Singh, Metropolitan State University of Denver, USA
Supina Supina, Bunda Mulia University, Indonesia
Darina Svobodova, University of Surrey, UK
Georgia Teare, University of Ottawa, Canada
Yann Tournesac, Leeds Beckett University, UK
Katy Tse, University of Surrey, UK
Lewis Walsh, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Beau Wanwisa, University of Surrey, UK
Ryutaro Yamakita, University of Ottawa, Canada
Emmy Yeung, University of Chester, UK
Ryuta Yoda, Coventry University, UK
Nicole Yu, The University of Queensland, Australia
Azadeh Zarei, The University of Queensland, Australia

Submission Guidelines

Submission Guidelines

Our aim is to make initial submission to Event Management as simple as possible, for all submission routes. Authors can use the following information as a checklist before submitting.

HOW TO SUBMIT: All manuscripts to be submitted via this link:

WHAT TO SUBMIT: Authors are asked to submit four documents:

Impact Statement
Title page
Manuscript
Submission Checklist (Click here for the Submission Checklist)

Please note: After you have received the first round of peer review comments and you are responding to reviewers’ comments, please ensure you attach a ‘Response to Reviewers’ document on Step 2: File Upload. This will make it easier for the reviewers to see where changes have been made in relation to peer review comments, and how and why you have attended to all peer reviewer points.

Cover letters are optional but we do encourage authors to also provide this to help detail the theoretical, empirical, and/or practical contribution of the manuscript.

WHAT TO INCLUDE IN YOUR “IMPACT STATEMENT”: up to 500 words detailing the potential or actual impact of this article on society.

WHAT TO INCLUDE IN YOUR “TITLE PAGE”: Please ensure all of the following headings are present and addressed:

Title (20 words max)
Author(s) name
Affiliation (Department, Institution, City, (State), Country)
Corresponding author and email address
Corresponding author ORCID
Declaration of interest
Part of a Special Issue? If so, state the name of the Special Issue.

WHAT TO INCLUDE AND HOW TO FORMAT MANUSCRIPTS: We provide authors with the flexibility to format and organize manuscripts in they way they prefer for initial submission. Authors will then work with our editorial assistants after acceptance to conform with journal standardized format before publication. We do however have a simple checklist of things below we do require at initial submission stage:

Sections to include:

Title (up to 20 words, in CAPITAL LETTERS and BOLD)
Highlights (3-5 highlights, max 80 characters including spaces for each bullet point)
Abstract (150 words max)
Keywords (up to 8, placed immediately after the Abstract)
A “Literature Review” and “Methodology” section must feature, unless not appropriate.

Formatting requirements

Arial font, size 10 or 12.
All manuscripts should be thoroughly checked for spelling and grammar.
In-text citations and ‘References’ (these can be formatted to your choosing but must be consistent).
Double spaced, with line numbering and page numbers.
‘Tables’ and high quality ‘Images’ and ‘Figures’ to be uploaded as separate files.
Word counts indicated below are the maximum for all sections including tables, figure legends and appendices.
Clearly identifiable headings with no more than three levels (see example below).
1. HEADING,
1.1 Sub-heading
1.1.1 Sub-sub-heading.

SUBMISSION TYPES:

Research article (up to 10,000 words)—traditional full-length research articles contribute to theory.
Research note (up to 2,500 words)—short pieces that are theoretically or methodologically relevant, novel and innovative that can be developed further and advanced by other scholars. Commentaries and debates can be submitted under this submission type too.
Event case study (up to 10,000 words)—full-length empirically based research articles that rigorously apply theory but do not necessarily seek to develop theory. Authors must however stress the implications of empirical work beyond the event case study context.
Event education (up to 10,000 words)—full-length pieces focusing on events-related learning and teaching innovation and impact on student education, experience, and performance.

GENERAL AND SPECIFIC QUESTIONS EDITORS AND REVIEWERS WILL CONSIDER WHEN EVALUATING MANUSCRIPTS

General questions:

Is there a clear research issue or problem statement presented at the beginning that establishes the “so what” factor?
Is the theoretical, methodological, or empirical contribution of the manuscript clearly stated? And is the significance of this contribution clearly stated?
Is the manuscript interesting, bold, and/or innovative?
Is the theoretical framework robust, providing a good conceptual grounding in relevant literature?
Is the methodology designed and executed in a reliable and valid way?
Is the manuscript written in a clear and concise way (without “academese”) and accessible to academic and nonacademic audiences?
Is the argument written in an easy to follow and logical way?
Are there clear conceptual and practical conclusions drawn on in the latter parts of the manuscript?
Which of the following submission routes do you think the manuscript is best suited for:
– Research article (strong theoretical or methodological contribution)
– Research Note (shortened version with a strong theoretical or methodological contribution)
– Event Case Study (limited theoretical or methodological contribution, but interesting empirical insights)
– Events Education

Specific events-related questions:

Does the manuscript present an analysis of contemporary events-related issues?
Does the manuscript present a balanced perspective on the power and potential of events for good or for bad?
Do you think this manuscript helps advance events research: how and why?
Are there clear and well-justified recommendations to help advance the policy and practice of events in the future?
Does the manuscript present a future academic research agenda that seeks to push the boundaries of events research?
Is it clear how either descriptive or conceptual features of the event in question impacts on the empirical phenomenon in question? (In other words, does the author position the event simply as the “background” or “context” or are distinct features of the event recognized?)

NB: We ask this last question because in Event Management journal we want continue building a more conceptual understanding as to why events and festivals are particularly interesting organizational constructs to advance theory and knowledge, over let’s say other types of organizations like businesses or government institutions.

ONLINE FAST-TRACK PUBLICATION

Accepted manuscripts will be loaded to Fast Track with DOI links online. Fast Track is an early e-pub system whereby subscribers to the journal can start reading and citing the articles prior to their inclusion in a journal issue. Please note that articles published in Fast Track are not the final print publication with proofs. Once the accepted manuscript is ready to publish in an issue of the journal, the corresponding author will receive a proof from our Production Department for approval. Once approved and published, the Fast Track version of the manuscript is deleted and replaced with the final published article. Online Fast Track publication ensures that the accepted manuscripts can be read and cited as quickly as possible.

Use of Copyright Material: Authors must attest their manuscript contains original work and provide proof of permission to reproduce any content(artwork, photographs, tables, etc.) in connection with their manuscript, also ensuring their work does not infringe on any copyright and that they have obtained permission for its use. It is important to note that any and all materials obtain via the Internet/social media (including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.) fall under all copyright rules and regulations and permission for use must be obtained prior to publication.
Copyright: Publications are copyrighted for the protection of authors and the publisher. A Transfer of Copyright Agreement will be sent to the author whose manuscript is accepted. The form must be completed and returned with the final manuscript files(s).

AUTHOR OPTIONS

Articles appearing in Event Management are available to be open access and also contain color figures (neither is a condition for publication). Authors will be provided with an Author Option Form, which indicates the following options. The form must be completed and returned with the final manuscript file(s) even if the answer is “No” to the options. This form serves as confirmation of your choice for the options.

A voluntary submission fee of $125.00 includes one free page of color and a 50% discount on additional color pages (color is discounted to $100.00 per color page).
Open access is available for a fee of $200.00 for up to 15 pages and $50.00 for each additional page. Color would be discounted to $100.00 per color page.
Color figures: Your article may contain figures that should be printed in color. There is a charge for figures appearing in color. Cost for color figure in an article $200.00 (if not paying Voluntary Submission Fee or Open Access Fee).

If you choose to have your article be open access, a payment form will be sent with the amount due based on the number of pages at proof stage. The form will need to be completed and returned with payment information and any corrections to the proof prior to publication.

The use of color in articles is an important feature. If you choose to have figures in color a payment form will be provided with your proof, which will need to be completed and returned with any corrections to the proof prior to publication.

PAGE PROOFS

Page proofs will be sent electronically to the designated corresponding author prior to publication. Minor changes only are allowed at this stage. The designated corresponding author will receive a free pdf file of the final press article, which will be sent by email.

DISCLAIMER

Although every effort is made by the publisher and editorial board to see that no inaccurate or misleading data, opinion, or statement appears in this Journal, they wish to make it clear that the data and opinions appearing in the articles and advertisements herein are the sole responsibility of the contributor or advertiser concerned. Accordingly, the publisher, the editorial board, editors, and their respective employees, officers, and agents accept no responsibility or liabilitywhatsoever for the consequences of any such inaccurate or misleading data, opinion, or statement.

Peer Review Policy

Event Management (EM) Peer Review Policy

Peer review is the evaluation of scientific, academic, or professional work by others working in the same field to ensure only good scientific research is published.

In order to maintain these standards, Event Management (EM) utilizes a double-blind review process whereby the identity of the reviewers is not known to authors and the authors are not shown on the article being reviewed.

The peer review process for EM is laid out below:

STEP 1: An article is reviewed for quality, suitability and alignment to the submission formatting guidelines by the Editor-In-Chief and Deputy Editors, and authors will receive either a desk reject, or the article will be progressed to one of our Associate Editors.

STEP 2: If progressed, an Associate Editor will also review for quality and suitability. At this point they may suggest a rejection, or progress and invite reviewers to review the manuscript. We ask reviewers to submit their review within approx. 4-6 weeks (sometimes this can be quicker or slower) and decided is the paper should be an: ‘accept’, ‘minor revision’, ‘major revision’ or ‘reject’.

STEP 3: Authors will then have approx. 4-6 weeks to complete revisions and then resubmit to the journal. The peer review process will then continue until a decision is made by the Associate Editor.

STEP 4: At this point, the article will go to the Editor-In-Chief and Deputy Editors to make a final decision and suggest any final changes required before final acceptance.

STEP 5: After final acceptance, authors will then work with our editorial team to ensure that the article is correctly formatted and suitable for publication. Manuscripts will then be allocated a DOI and uploaded to our fast-track system to have a digital presence online. When the final article is uploaded, we then provide 15 DAYS FREE ACCESS to the article, which can be shared out to networks.

INTERESTED IN BECOMING A REVIEWER FOR EVENT MANAGEMENT JOURNAL?

As a reviewer for Event Management you would have the benefit of reading and evaluating current research in your area of expertise at its early state, thereby contributing to the integrity of scientific exploration.

If you are interested in becoming a reviewer for EM please contact the EIC: Mike Duignan at eventmanagementjournal@outlook.com

If you review three papers for one of the Cognizant journals (Tourism Review International, Tourism Analysis, Event Management, Tourism Culture and Communication, Tourism in Marine Environments, and Gastronomy and Tourism) within a one-year period, you will qualify for a free OPEN ACCESS article in one of the above journals.

Ethics Statement

ETHICS STATEMENT

The publishers and editorial board of Event Management have adopted the publication ethics and malpractice statements of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) https://publicationethics.org/core-practices. These guidelines highlight what is expected of authors and what they can expect from the reviewers and editorial board in return. They also provide details of how problems will be handled. Briefly:

Event Management is governed by an international editorial board consisting of experts in event management, tourism, business, sport, and related fields. Information regarding the editorial board members is listed on the inside front cover of the printed copy of the journal in addition to the homepage for the journal at: https://www.cognizantcommunication.com/journal-titles/event-management under the “Editorial Board” tab.

This editorial board conducts most of the manuscript reviews and plays a large role in setting the standards for research and publication in the field. The Editor-in-Chief receives and processes all manuscripts and from time to time will modify the editorial board to ensure a continuous improvement in quality.

The reviewers uphold a peer review process without favoritism or prejudice to gender, sexual orientation, religious/political beliefs, nationality, or geographical origin. Each submission is given equal consideration for acceptance based only on the manuscript’s importance, originality, academic integrity, and clarity and whether it is suitable for the journal in accordance with the Aims and Scope of the journal. They must not have a conflict of interest with the author(s) or work described. The anonymity of the reviewers must be maintained.

All manuscripts are sent out for blind review and the editor/editorial board will maintain the confidentiality of author(s) and their submitted research and supporting documentation, figures, and tables and all aspects pertaining to each submission.

Reviewers are expected to not possess any conflicts of interest with the authors. They should review the manuscript objectively and provide recommendations for improvements where necessary. Any unpublished information read by a reviewer should be treated as confidential.

Authors

Manuscripts must contain original material and must not have been published previously. Material accepted for publication may not be published elsewhere without the consent of the publisher. All rights and permissions must be obtained by the contributor(s) and should be sent upon acceptance of manuscripts for publication.

References, acknowledgments, figure legends, and tables must be properly cited and authors must attest their manuscript contains original work and provide proof of permission to reproduce any content (artwork, photographs, tables, etc.) in connection with their manuscript, also ensuring their work does not infringe on any copyright and that they have obtained permission for its use. It is important to note that any and all materials obtain via the Internet/social media (including but not limited to Face Book, Twitter, Instagram, etc.) falls under all copyright rules and regulations and permission for use must be obtained prior to publication.

Authors listed on a manuscript must have made a significant contribution to the study and/or writing of the manuscript. During revisions, authors cannot be removed without their permission and that of all other authors. All authors must also agree to the addition of new authors. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to ensure that this occurs.

Financial support and conflicts of interest for all authors must be declared.

The reported research must be novel and authentic and the author(s) should confirm that the same data has not been and is not going to be submitted to another journal (unless already rejected). Plagiarism of the text/data will not be tolerated and could result in retraction of an accepted article.

When humans, animals, or tissue derived from them have been used, then mention of the appropriate ethical approval must be included in the manuscript.

Publisher

The publishers agree to ensure, to the best of their abilities, that the information they publish is genuine and ethically sound. If publishing ethics issues come to light, not limited to accusations of fraudulent data or plagiarism, during or after the publication process, they will be investigated by the editorial board including contact with the authors’ institutions if necessary, so that a decision on the appropriate corrections, clarifications, or retractions can be made. The publishers agree to publish this as necessary so as to maintain the integrity of the academic record.

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Volume 26, Number 6

Investigating Social Capital Development in Embedded Festivals: The Case of the Cygnet Folk Festival – 1193
https://doi.org/10.3727/152599521X16367300695843

Terese Fiedler and Mark Wickham

Tasmanian School of Business & Economics, University of Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia

This article adopts Claridge’s tridimensional social capital lens to explore how social capital is developed in an embedded festival setting. The study was based upon a quantitative survey and semistructured in-depth interviews with multiple stakeholders of the embedded Cygnet Folk Festival (a regional festival located in Tasmania, Australia). Results indicated that embedded festivals could generate unique social capital by coopting the local infrastructure and providing volunteer opportunities. Although all dimensions of social capital were detected, it appeared that embedded festivals may be particularly effective in generating the structural and cognitive dimensions of social capital; the findings of this study support the notion that embedded festivals differ in the manner in which social capital is produced and in their ability to create a sense of community in the host location. This article concludes with a range of theoretical and practical implications for the effective management of social capital development in festival settings.

Key words: Embedded festivals; Social capital development

Examining Long-Term Organizational Forms Surrounding Leverage and Legacy Delivery of Canadian Major Sport Events – 1211
https://doi.org/10.3727/152599522X16419948390790

Kylie Wasser,* Landy Di Lu,† and Laura Misener*

*School of Kinesiology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
†School of Kinesiology, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA

This study explored the long-term organizational forms that are responsible for leverage and legacy delivery of major sport events. Comparative cases from the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games and the 2015 Toronto Pan Am/Parapan American Games were used to examine what mechanisms previous host cities have used. The findings from this study demonstrated that important organizational mechanisms contributing to strategic leveraging efforts included frequent collaboration from earliest point; distinction from the OC; the use of binding policy to maintain partnerships; clearly defined roles, responsibilities, and guidelines of conduct; and consistent, sustainable leadership. The collaborative nature of these organizational forms provided opportunities for organizations to increase their leveraging capacity. A conceptual framework for leveraging sustainable outcomes within the complex and multilayered nature of collaboration is also developed as a starting point for organizers looking to deliver lasting impacts from an event, as well as for scholars examining event legacy and/or leveraging strategies.

Key words: Event leverage; Legacy delivery; Organizational form; Multisector collaboration; Major sport events

A Self-Identification Typology of Endurance Sport Participants – 1235
https://doi.org/10.3727/152599522X16419948390844

Esmarie Myburgh and Martinette Kruger

TREES (Tourism Research in Economics, Environs and Society), North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

Endurance sport participants cannot be regarded as homogenous, and no single marketing effort will satisfy all the individuals’ needs. Endurance participants have been segmented based on a variety of bases. The current research moves away from the traditional segmentation bases and implements a novel segmentation base, namely self-identification (how participants classify themselves). An online survey resulted in 498 completed questionnaires from South African endurance sport participants. Self-identification proved to be a useful segmentation base as it revealed five segments (average, recreational, intermediate, hard-core, and veteran participants) with specific characteristics and needs. Furthermore, self-identification and their perceived skill level are directly linked to the level of commitment, lifestyle adaption, specific event attributes. The five segments identified will always be present at any endurance event, and therefore, this research helps event managers determine the appropriate outlets and messages to market their events.

Key words: Endurance sport participants; Market segmentation; Typology; South Africa; Self-identification

Host Communities, Event Leveraging, and Participatory Sport Events – 1259
https://doi.org/10.3727/152599522X16419948390862

Millicent Kennelly

Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management, Griffith University, Southbank, Australia

This article examines participatory sport event (PSE) organizers’ perceptions of, and interactions with, the communities in which they host events. Internationally, PSEs are burgeoning in popularity and may be strategically leveraged to promote positive economic and social development in host locations. Yet little is known about who organizes such events, or how PSE organizers approach their interactions with event hosting communities. Further, it remains unclear if/how PSE organizers may contribute to broader strategic event leveraging activities. Twenty-two in-depth interviews were conducted with PSE organizers in the UK. The results indicate all interviewees value effective relationships with host community stakeholders, although those organizing events for-profit tended to regard stakeholder interaction in highly instrumental terms. Many organizers viewed the production of beneficial outcomes from their events as integral to ensuring community support. While organizers expressed a sense of responsibility to “do the right thing” when interacting with stakeholders, it was those who organized events in the location where they lived who exhibited greatest concern for production of benefits in the host community. This research has implications for smaller cities/locations seeking to build sustainable event portfolios as a strategy for economic or social development and may help guide decisions around which events are selected and why.

Key words: Participatory sport events (PSEs); Event host communities; Event leverage

We Are Serious Event Travelers: Event Travel Careers and The Social Worlds of Arts Practitioners to International Arts Festivals and Events – 1275
https://doi.org/10.3727/152599522X16419948390880

Sandra Goh,* Karen A. Smith,† and Ian Seymour Yeoman†

*School of Hospitality & Tourism, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
†School of Management, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

For most arts practitioners, going on tour with their shows or to participate in international arts festivals and events is an essential part of developing their careers. An event travel career (ETC) is formed when people are serious enough about their leisure interests to travel to participate in related events. Existing studies on event travel career are focused on the serious sport tourists. This study employs an arts-informed life history approach to gain insights into the constraints and facilitators of the ETCs of 19 Singaporean arts practitioners. The theory of serious leisure, social worlds, and the event travel career concept provide a framework to qualitatively examine their ETCs. In an integrative framework constructed from their lives lived, the participants’ membership in their social worlds emerged as the key driver throughout the development of their ETCs. The findings also draw attention to the emergence of new social worlds’ leaders and stakeholders in attracting serious event travelers to new social worlds destinations, and recommend that destination marketers and event managers work with them for future planning in event tourism marketing.

Key words: Event travel career; Event tourism; Arts tourism; Travel motivation; Serious leisure; Social worlds

Investigating Stakeholder Salience Across the Event Management Life Cycle – 1297
https://doi.org/10.3727/152599522X16419948390925

Fidella Tiew,* Kirsten Holmes,† and Nigel De Bussy†

*Faculty of Business, Curtin University Malaysia, Sarawak, Malaysia
†Faculty of Business and Law, Curtin University, Perth, Australia

A key feature of events is their temporal life cycle, yet previous studies have not distinguished between different stages of this life cycle and the relative salience of stakeholders to event managers across the event life cycle. This study uses a case study research design informed by Mitchell et al.’s theory of stakeholder identification and salience to examine stakeholder salience across the event life cycle using six case studies of tourism events in East Malaysia. The study identified that resource power alone dictated the most salient stakeholders, who had nonsubstitutable and event-specific resources. The study also found that for the events in this study, stakeholder urgency referred solely to the relative importance of that stakeholder at different times during the event life cycle. This new concept is termed “event life cycle urgency” and a framework for identifying the relative urgency of each stakeholder throughout the event life cycle is presented.

Key words: Stakeholder salience; Event life cycle urgency; Resource power; Continual legitimacy; Borneo

Celebratory and Sustainable? A Website Examination of the Sustainability Practices of Australian Festivals – 1315
https://doi.org/10.3727/152599522X16419948390952

Gerard Jan Hutte,* Kevin Markwell,*† and Erica Wilson*

*Faculty of Business, Law and Arts, Southern Cross University, Bilinga, Australia
†Australia and Vocations Faculty, Airlangga University, Surayaba, Indonesia

Festivals are significant contributors to the visitor economy at local, regional, and global scales. Regardless of their scale, festivals consume resources such as energy, water, land, and food, and produce wastes in the form of wastewater/sewage, food scraps, and garbage such as plastics, paper and cardboard, aluminum, and glass. As such, every festival has an environmental footprint. However, it is only in the last decade or so that the environmental impacts of festivals and their concomitant levels of ecological sustainability have been of concern to organizing bodies and participants. The study described in this article examines the sustainability practices of a sample of Australian festivals through a systematic content/thematic analysis of their websites. Key questions to be explored are: (i) To what extent do Australian festival organizers disclose information about sustainability on their websites? (ii) Are there any discernible patterns across the sample concerning sustainability and festival type? (iii) What kind of information concerning sustainability practices is shared by these festivals and events on their websites? (iv) What navigational pathways are required to find this information? The article provides a snapshot of current practice in relation to sustainability and as such generates new understandings of, and insights into, the extent to which Australian festivals are engaging with sustainability. The findings provide a baseline from which to benchmark festivals as well as identify any patterns or trends across contemporary Australian festivals with respect to sustainability.

Key words: Festivals; Sustainability; Website analysis; Waste management; Environmental impact

Remaking the Festival Business Model During a Pandemic – 1335
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Christine M. Van Winkle and Sasha Kullman

Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

During the 2020 coronavirus pandemic mass gatherings were prohibited across Canada. Festival organizations were faced with a challenge not seen in modern times. How festival business models changed course as a result of pandemic restrictions was explored with in-depth interviews. Senior festival organizers of festivals from across Canada were invited to participate in this qualitative study and share their experiences. In total, 25 participants described how they were moving forward in light of the pandemic. Findings revealed that festivals’ business models were changing to focus on organizational sustainability, innovation, relationships, and adaptation. Factors influencing these changes were explored.

Key words: Festivals; Change management; Business model innovation; Crisis; Pandemic

Who Are the Big Spenders at a Grand Prix in a Gaming Destination? – 1351
https://doi.org/10.3727/152599522X16419948391023

Thea Vinnicombe and Joey Pek U Sou

Macau Institute for Tourism Studies, Macau, China

Market segmentation by expenditure enables the identification of high-spending visitors to festivals and events, enabling organizers to target this group with appropriate product offerings and promotions, thereby facilitating the achievement of economic goals from smaller participant numbers. Despite the potential usefulness of this tool, few studies have applied this technique in the festival and event literature. This article examines the existing studies with a view to identifying similarities and differences among high spenders and other points of interest. An additional case study of visitors to the 2019 Macau Grand Prix is added to the current research. High, medium, and light spending categories of Grand Prix attendees are identified and profiled. High spenders are found to differ from their counterparts on a number of sociodemographic and trip-related characteristics, including age, income, length of stay in Macau, and most of all a desire to thoroughly enjoy their whole Grand Prix trip, staying in comfortable accommodation, dinning and drinking, and trying their luck in the city’s casinos. In addition, they exhibit a higher level of interest or attachment to the Macau Grand Prix and to motor sports more broadly. These outcomes support the findings of other studies using expenditure to segment festival and event goers, and provide valuable information for the event organizers and tourism operators in Macau.

Key words: Grand Prix; Expenditure segmentation; Casino destination

Movie-Induced Tourism for Bollywood: Event Study-Based Analysis – 1367
https://doi.org/10.3727/152599522X16419948391203

Saurabh Kumar

Indian Institute of Management Indore, Indore, India

Movie-induced tourism is significant for destination marketing. Although various studies have analyzed movie-induced tourism in the past, none of the earlier studies have investigated the movie-induced tourism for Bollywood movies. The present study fills the gap and examines the movie-induced tourism for Bollywood movies. The data has been collected for a total of 86 Bollywood movies, and the tourist location it promotes in the movie. The study further employs the event study methodology to understand the influence of the release of the movies on the number of tourists visiting the particular location. The results of the event study suggest that the tourism of a specific place is highly influenced by the movies and thus validated the movie-induced tourism for Bollywood movies. The findings of the study could be used to promote lesser-known regions by portraying them in Bollywood movies and then by subsequent promotions.

Key words: Bollywood; Tourism; Event study; Movie-induced tourism

Knowledge Spillover at Trade Shows and Exhibitor Innovation – 1381
https://doi.org/10.3727/152599522X16419948390934

Lingfei Wu,* Larry Yu,† and Suosheng Wang‡

*Shenzhen Tourism College, Jinan University, Shenzhen, China
†Department of Management, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
‡Department of Tourism, Event and Sport Management, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA

Extant research indicates that trade shows provide business organizations an important platform to obtain competitive information and improve new product development; yet, only a scarcity of research has examined the effect of knowledge spillovers at trade shows and its impacts on firms’ innovations. This study examined the effect of trade show strategy on innovation intention and innovation capability directly and indirectly, through the mediation of knowledge spillover at trade shows; it also analyzed the effect of innovation intention on firms’ innovation capability at field-configuring events, such as major trade shows. The sample consisted of 443 exhibitors at the China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair. Findings revealed that exhibitors’ trade show strategy directly affected their innovation capability, and knowledge spillover mediated the effect of trade show strategy on innovation intention, which exerted an impact on firms’ innovation capability. This study indicates that, in addition to leveraging trade shows as marketing and sales venues for firms’ products and services, trade shows can be used as a strategy for seeking new knowledge from competitor firms through knowledge spillover and for improving a firm’s innovative ability; moreover, knowledge spillover at trade shows can affect a firm’s innovation. The implication for firms participating in trade shows is to leverage the temporary clustering of people and products for the strategic purpose of knowledge acquisition and innovation.

Key words: Trade show strategy; Field-configuring event; Knowledge spillover; Innovation intention; Innovation capability

Conceptualizing Self-Learning to Deliver Successful Events in Built Heritage Settings – 1395
https://doi.org/10.3727/152599522X16419948391005

Peter Robinson and Leueen Burns

Centre for Tourism and Hospitality Management, School of Events, Tourism and Hospitality Management, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK

In the UK, museums (29%), gardens (38%), and historic buildings (27%) are the most visited attractions, yet admissions revenue is often insufficient for operational costs and long-term repair and investment costs. With the UK events sector worth £42.3 billion annually historic buildings are in a unique position to use events to generate income and raise awareness. However, the management of events within the heritage setting is complex, contextually informed, and contested by stakeholders while operators manage the competing issues of conservation, access, and revenue generation. Through 10 detailed semistructured interviews this study explores the way in which knowledge is gathered and embedded to professionalize event management practices within the heritage tourism sector. Building on the work of Garvin and Brine and Feather, a model is evolved to explain how knowledge is gained, embedded, and shared across the heritage sector.

Key words: Heritage management; Learning organizations; Self-learning; Event tourism;Heritage tourism; Event management

Integrated Supply Chain Sustainability for Mega-Events: An Empirical Study of Dubai Expo 2020 – 1409
https://doi.org/10.3727/152599522X16419948391032

Ioannis Manikas, Balan Sundarakani, Anas Madmoune, and Roselyne Alvares

University of Wollongong in Dubai, Faculty of Business, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

This study investigates the sustainability aspects of the developmental operations of the EXPO 2020 mega-event in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The research methodology combines a case study design with a structured questionnaire-based survey involving the participating firms: suppliers of EXPO 2020. Based on the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model, the case study design develops strategies to be implemented in the development, planning, sourcing, making, delivering, and return stages of EXPO operations and assesses the sustainability aspect of the event’s supply chains. The survey results are obtained by applying the partial least square-based structural equation modelling (PLS SEM) and the analysis is performed using the SMARTPLS model to test for the quality criteria, bootstrapping, and consistency of the sustainability development model. The sustainability development model developed in this study may influence the supply chains supporting this mega-event to enhance the participating suppliers’ sustainability performance. The study findings have implications for organizations that strive for excellence through innovation, by understanding the relationship between the SCOR model chapters and their environmental impacts as an outcome moderated by digitization of the processes. This study is the first to use the SMARTPLS model to stimulate the relationship between sustainability factors and environmental outcomes, mediated by sustainability. While EXPO 2020/21 developments are ongoing at the time of this writing, this study’s findings could benefits stakeholders of the supply chain in the ecosystem of UAE and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.

Key words: Supply chain sustainability for mega-events; Sustainable event management; EXPO 2020; Mega-events assessment; Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model

What Drives Event Discovery Apps User Behaviors Among Generation Z? Evidence From Macau – 1433
https://doi.org/10.3727/152599522X16419948391041

Chin-Hsun (Ken) Tsai,* Ching-Hui (Joan) Su,* Ho-Kai Chan,† and Jin Liu‡

*Department of Apparel, Events, and Hospitality Management, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
†Faculty of International Tourism and Management, City University of Macao, Taipa, China
‡Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China

The purpose of this research is threefold: (1) to develop a theoretical framework for the investigation of event discovery mobile applications (event discovery apps) usage behavior, (2) to examine the core determinants from the technology acceptance model (TAM), and (3) to study the effect of moderating factors in explaining the relationships of influential factors among young event-goers. Generation Z event discovery apps usage behavior was examined by incorporating the psychology-based TAM to understand motivational factors better. Results revealed that core TAM factors (perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness) influenced Generation Z’s event discovery apps adoption behavior. Additionally, price value and perceived enjoyment, as extensions of the TAM, were found to have a significant influence on Generation Z’s attitude and intention. This research contributes to the body of knowledge pertaining to the “Generation Smart” (Generation Z) by filling the void in the psychological literature on young consumerism and provide empirical research with a replicable theoretical framework. Further, for members of the festival and event industry alike (e.g., destination marketing organizations), this research offers up-to-date and insightful information that pertains to the needs of young consumers while developing self-enabled products or services to empower smart event development and advance the marketing efforts of local festivals and events.

Key words: Generation Z; Event technology; Mobile event apps; Smart event; Technology acceptance model

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Special Issue - Festivals and Storytelling

Event Management – Special Issue:
Festivals and Storytelling: Creating experiences through stories, places & spaces

Guest Editors:

Dr Brianna Wyatt (Oxford Brookes University)
Dr Giulia Rossetti (Oxford Brookes University)

Special Issue Timeline

15 September 2022 – Deadline for authors to submit abstract proposals
15 October 2022 – Acceptance of abstract proposals and notification
15 March 2023 – Authors to submit full manuscripts for initial screening
15 June 2023 – Return of manuscripts with comments by Guest Editors
20 August 2023 – Authors to submit revised and final manuscript
Publication of manuscript – Online as soon as papers are accepted and as part of the special issue in 2024.

People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe; and it is that rock solid belief that makes things happen.

– Neil Gaiman, American Gods

Neil Gaiman’s storytelling helps us to see that people are not necessarily separate, because we all influence each other in some way, and because of that, people are connected across both time and space (Boyer, 2019). Such connectedness can be seen through storytelling in festival experiences, as cultures across the world share commonalities through the storytelling of myths, legends, lore, and forms of heritage and cultural practice. While storytelling may be traditionally understood as imaginary constructions, it is reliant on narratives that weave together social time and human actions (Bory, 2020). Although in practice storytelling may vary across cultures and time, it is commonly used as a way to create connections, a way to build community, celebrate cultural diversity, and preserve cultural identity, thereby fulfilling critical social and individual needs (Del Negro & Kimball, 2021; McCullum Baldasaro et al., 2014).

Storytelling is particularly important for creating tourism and event experiences (Moscardo, 2020). As prisms of shared meaning and experiences that incorporate experience design, social interactions, traditions, symbolic values, and affective benefits (Morgan, 2008; Richards, 2019), festivals use storytelling to stage unique and memorable experiences. Specifically, festival storytelling exists as an ongoing narrative delivered through the festival space, people, performances, material culture and artefacts, spirituality, and general design aesthetics, including branding and promotional materials (Dębicka-Borek, 2022; Dal Falco & Vassos, 2017).

Blending the older vernacular with the newly invented, festival storytelling draws on global traditions, cultural beliefs, myths and legends, and historical and current events to communicate, through artistry and expression, shared meanings and values that underpin a festival’s purpose, brand identity, and influence (Cox, 2019; Evans, 2016; Sobol, 2018). Storytelling is used to attract and maintain an audiences’ attention and help them to identify and connect with something or someone within the festival story or message (Mei, Hagensen, Kristiansen, 2018). Because storytelling can affect how festival audiences think of, view, remember, and experience one’s own culture and that of others (Ryan, 2008), it can help to create a sense of identity and space, impact individual and public memory, and enable audiences to experience and learn more deeply about different people and places (Dal Falco & Vassos, 2017; Ngoepe et al, 2021). Although storytelling can be influenced by physical, social or cultural environments and circumstances (Ryan, 2008), the purpose of storytelling is not simply to convey information or narratives, but to enrich, enhance and infuse these communications with meanings, values and symbolism (Mei et al, 2018).

Festival storytelling is made possible through thematic integration, in which the festival location and space, topic or genre (folklore, ghost stories, war stories, animal tales, etc.), and tropes or conceptual framings (home, blessing, curse, tradition, etc.) are interwoven between literal and figurative levels to create harmony between these varying elements for a complete story (Sobol, 2018). Embedded in this interwoven harmony are multi-frame narratives that unify an outer-frame story of meaning and value (Sobol, 2018). Festival storytelling is thus brought to life through the reimagination of spaces and creation of enchanting atmospheres that support interwoven narratives to create effective storyscapes – consumption spaces with narratives as the focal point (Lovell & Griffin, 2022). Some festivals may utilise tangible heritage or cultural resources to enhance the storyscape, such as the festival’s landscape and/or architecture, buildings of historical or cultural significance; or they may promote their intangible riches, such as being the place of a particular people, artistry and/or creativity, song, dance, stories, and/or culture (Hayes & MacLeod, 2007; Jung, 2021). In some capacities, festivals may also utilise activities and entertainment, food and drink, and even the language used by both festival organisers and attendees to enhance the overall storyscape (Hayes & MacLeod, 2007). More recently, festivals have become more reliant on technology, such as augmented and virtual reality, gesture control and embedded computing to engage audiences with others and the festival spaces for a more co-creative storytelling experience (Dal Falco & Vassos, 2017). If designed effectively, festivals, as storyscapes, can be affective and transport audiences temporarily to unattainable places of different cultures, myths, legends, heritage, or secular themes (Lovell & Thurgill, 2021).

Festival storytelling thus brings people together through common themes of art, culture, and entertainment (Richards, 2019) and impacts on audience understanding of different phenomena, as well as on their psychological wellbeing and future behavioural intentions (Kitchen & Filep, 2019). Within this scope, festival storytelling can not only educate and entertain audiences (Rossetti & Quinn, 2019, 2021), but also contribute to the enhancement and quality of local life, as well as the revival of local pride, an increased sense of social cohesion, and facilitate learning about different cultures, heritage, and customs (Akhoondnejad, 2016).

What we are looking for:

The aim of this special journal issue is to focus on how storytelling can be used within festivals to create unique and memorable experiences. We are looking for papers that address the importance of storytelling for festivals and audience experiences, both conceptually and practically.

This special journal issue welcomes abstract proposals from a range of interdisciplinary studies, including (but not limited to) festivals and events, tourism and hospitality, heritage and cultural studies, public history and sociology, experience design. It also welcomes proposals from varying methodological perspectives and encourages both empirical and case study submissions, as well as theoretical and conceptual studies.

Each abstract proposal and subsequent accepted article must integrate the main themes of storytelling and festivals equally. Each abstract and subsequent accepted article must also address the practical and theoretical importance of the article (i.e. how the article would benefit both industry and existing discourse and/or future research).

Example topics include, but are not limited to:

Storytelling and historical / cultural representations
Storytelling and authenticity
Festivals as storyscapes
Storytelling and place-making / identity-making
Storytelling and popular culture
Supernatural storytelling
Faith based storytelling
Indigenous storytelling
Storytelling & festival spaces/places (venues, landscapes, historic sites, monuments)
Commodification through storytelling
Digital / virtual storytelling
Co-created storytelling
Storytelling techniques at festivals
Contested and uncomfortable storytelling
Storytelling to promote UN SDGs
Inclusion and storytelling
Methodological discussions on storytelling at festivals
Storytelling and repeat visitation
Storytelling and festival tourism
Storytelling and festivals in a post-Covid environment

Example themes / talking points include, but are not limited to:

The impact of storytelling on community development
How storytelling influences audience engagement
How festival storytelling can educate and influence citizenship (local, national, global)
How storytelling enables relationships between locals and audiences
The relationship between authenticity and commercialism in festival storytelling
How to manage tensions or issues relating to in/authenticity in festival storytelling
Experience design techniques to enhance storytelling in festivals
How to design storytelling for all ages within a single festival experience
How to manage co-created storytelling experiences
How storytelling has endured within a festival experience over time
How storytelling can be used within festivals to improve future generations
Links between physical and virtual/digital festival storytelling
How festivals tell stories across geographical levels (local, regional, national, international)
How festivals can tell stories via music, sport, food, dance, art…

Special Issue Timeline

15 September 2022 – Deadline for authors to submit abstract proposals
15 October 2022 – Acceptance of abstract proposals and notification
15 March 2023 – Authors to submit full manuscripts for initial screening
15 June 2023 – Return of manuscripts with comments by Guest Editors
20 August 2023 – Authors to submit revised and final manuscript
Publication of manuscript – Online as soon as papers are accepted and as part of the special issue in 2024.

Author Instructions

If interested in contributing, please email an abstract not exceeding 500 words (including references) with the paper title, name of author/s, affiliation & corresponding email address to the guest editors: Dr Brianna Wyatt at bwyatt@brookes.ac.uk & Dr Giulia Rossetti at grossetti@brookes.ac.uk. Any questions can be directed to the guest editors of the special journal issue.

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Cox, J. K. (2019). From stage to page: Adaptation as survival in Neil Gaimon’s Mr. Punch. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 30(2), 176-197.

Dal Falco, F. & Vassos, S. (2017) Museum experience design: A modern storytelling methodology, The Design Journal, 20:(1), S3975-S3983, https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2017.1352900

Del Nergo, J. & Kimball, M. (2021) The why of storytelling. In J. M. Del Negro (Ed) Storytelling: Art and Technique (5th ed) (pp. 3-17). Libraries Unlimited.

Dębicka-Borek, E. (2022). Hunt without hunting: The reflexivity of all the stories behind Paruveta (Hunting Festival/Procession) in Ahobilam. The Journal of Hindu Studies, 15(1), 26-62. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhs/hiab024

Evans, T. H. (2016) Folklore, intertextuality, and the folkloresque in the works of Neil Gaiman. In M. D. Foster & J. A. Tolbert (Eds.) The folkloresque: Reframing folklore in a popular culture world (pp. 64-80). University Press of Colorado.

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Special Issue - Events and Social Entrepreneurship

Event Management

Guest Editor: Vanessa Ratten
Email: v.ratten@latrobe.edu.au

Special Issue: Events and Social Entrepreneurship

Extended abstract due: 30 October 2022
Final full paper due: 30 January 2023

Events can be used as a way to achieve social objectives at the community, national and international level (Duignan, 2021). Increasingly social entrepreneurs are utilising events as a platform to communicate a non-profit or societal initiative (Mackellar, 2006). Social entrepreneurs have always coalesced around the production and delivery of events, but the linkage between events and social entrepreneurship has been recently highlighted by Gurlek (2022) who stressed the need for more research in this area. Social entrepreneurship is useful at events as it involves any form of business activity that has a non-profit or altruistic goal (Al-Qudah, Al-Okaily and Alqudah, 2022). The focus of social entrepreneurship is normally on trying to help society by combining societal needs through business practices (Dacin, Dacin and Tracey, 2011). This comes at a time when event owners and organisers are increasingly and explicitly placing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) at the heart of social sustainability objectives.

As a concept social entrepreneurship is well developed due to its usefulness in terms of engaging with entrepreneurial activity via public and private partnerships (Klarin and Suseno, 2022). This means it can involve private entities as well as government bodies engaging in social events that provide a sense of collaborative governance that have a commercial purpose (Krane, Ebdon and Franklin, 2020). Initially social entrepreneurship focused on non-profit activity that small and community enterprises engaged in but more recently it has been studied to understand more larger scale projects that enable a particular issue or cause to gain attention. This has led to more diversity in the way it is studied and practiced as researchers, practitioners and policy makers acknowledge that it can be done in a small-scale context such as through local markets and community fairs or farmers markets but also in large scale context in terms of international sporting events.

Social entrepreneurship events are a distinct form of events that enable the combination of not-for profit or social objectives within an event setting (Mauksch, 2017). There are many ways social entrepreneurship can be utilised in an event context in terms of how an event incorporates a social and innovative goal in terms of how, when and why the event is conducted (Duignan and Pappalepore, 2021). For example, Miragaia, Ferreira and Pombo (2017) discuss how the sponsorship of sport events can be a form of social entrepreneurship. This provides a way for corporations to highlight their social responsibility obligations through sport event sponsorship (Miragaia, Ferreira and Raten, 2017). An example of this is Reebok sponsoring women’s running events with proceeds going to the Cancer Council and McDonalds sponsoring local community sports. However, some events have been sponsored by companies as a way to divert attention from less savoury business activity. In the past this was evident with Benson & Hedges a cigarette company sponsoring many cricket events. Generally most sport sponsorship events are considered positive as they enable a way for business to link social entrepreneurship to sport programs through social capital development at the community level (Miragaia, Martins, Kluka and Havens, 2015).

Events that incorporate a social entrepreneurship element can do this in a direct or indirect way. For example, a direct social entrepreneurship activity at an event might be the selling of merchandise such as clothing that supports a charity or a percentage of the ticket sales being used to fund Ukrainians in need due to the Russia/Ukraine crisis. Indirect social entrepreneurship can take on a variety of different forms such as the profits of an event being then given to a homeless shelter or religious organisation. This means when considering how social entrepreneurship occurs in an event context, a holistic understanding and acknowledgement of its complexity needs to be taken. This includes focusing on when the social entrepreneurship at an even happens. Mostly it is conjunction with an event such as fun run events being tied to a social enterprise such as one that helps migrants find employment or alternatively a farmers market taking the entry proceeds to be used in a social enterprise that such as Habitat for Humanity that builds houses for those in need. The why part of the social entrepreneurship and event concerns the reason considered as being important to highlighting the non-profit or social aspect of an event. This can include events that are liked to certain crises such as bushfires and the COVID-19 pandemic that seek to help social enterprises fund their ventures. Every year the Mallacoota Fundraising Group organises events such as the production of their calendar that is produced with the proceeds going to fund emergency services and wildlife welfare (https://www.mallacootafundraisinggroup.com.au). During the COVID-19 pandemic Keith Urban organised a drive in music event where health care workers could drive in their cars to the Stardust Drive-In in Watertown, Tennessee to listen to him perform his concert (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/keith-urban-drive-in-concert-social-distancing-1000791/).

There are innovative ways events are being conducted particularly in terms of technology utilised and strategies adopted (Colombo and Richards, 2017). Moreover, some events are utilising entrepreneurial leveraging in order to increase participation rates (Duignan, Down and O’Brien, 2020). Events might be held in person whilst others in a hybrid or online form (Hall, 2006; Larson, 2009). Therefore, there can also be engagement activities between the event organizers, participants, sponsors and government entities (Schubler, Grabher and Muller-Seitz, 2015). This can occur through crowdfunding activities or innovative financial platforms that enable people to participate in events in a face-to-face or online format. Technology entrepreneurship in the form of financial technology has changed the way people pay for and consume services. This has led to social entrepreneurs developing online platforms that utilise technology to advertise events. An example of this is the platform (gigsemcasa.com), which started during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to enable a online concert to take place without an audience (https://www.macaubusiness.com/portugal-platform-for-live-music-shows-at-home-launches-with-free-gig-on-friday/).

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic events have had to be more entrepreneurial in the way they are managed (Ratten, 2021). This brings in interesting new ideas about the reason and motives for holding an event. Whilst most events are profit-orientated increasing numbers of events also have a social objective in terms of fulfilling some form of community need. This means events such as koala conservation day to raise funds to plant trees for koalas and girls night in pajama party that raises funds for women’s cancers combine social entrepreneurial activities. Other social enterprises such as the Surfrider Foundation are making facemasks and other merchandise to be sold at surf contests (see https://shop.surfrider.org/collections/face-masks)

The United Nations Sustainable Development goals can be linked to the use of social entrepreneurship at events. This includes goal 3 about good health and wellbeing being a focus of events such as Keep Australia Clean day in which people walk around and pick up rubbish. Goal 13 about climate action and goal 14 about life below water relate to events that are organised by The Marine Mammal Center and Sea Life Trust that often take the form of entertainment events such as concerts. Goal 11 about industry, innovation and infrastructure is emphasised through the sponsorship of events by businesses for a particular cause. This includes the Auskick events sponsored by banks that aim to encourage children to be involved in football. Other goals such as 11 about sustainable cities and communities and goal 12 about responsible consumption and production are evident in other social enterprise events such as those focusing on energy consumption such as dark night events in which areas of the city turn off their lights for a night to conserve energy and focus attention on climate change (https://www.earthhour.org.au/).

The aim of this special journal issue is to focus on how events can be used as a source for social good. This means achieving social objectives through staging different kinds of events related to culture, sports and other topics. This special journal issue welcomes articles from a range of methodological perspectives including case study and empirical as well as theoretical and conceptual articles. Each article submitted should integrate the social entrepreneurship and events management literature and if possible incorporate a discussion on the United Nations sustainable development goals. The practical and theoretical importance of the research should be evident in each article submitted to the special journal issue. Examples of potential topics include but are not limited to:

Community fairs and social event initiatives
Online event management and philanthropy
Social entrepreneurship at regional events
Sport events and the role of social-based endeavours
Entrepreneurial responses to COVID-19 related events
Entrepreneurial social marketing at events
The usage of sustainable development goals at events

Initial extended abstract should be submitted to the guest editor then full papers via the journal’s online platform with a note on the title page saying that this is part of the special journal issue.

Any questions can be directed to the guest special journal issue editor.

References

Al-Qudah, A. A., Al-Okaily, M., & Alqudah, H. (2022). The relationship between social entrepreneurship and sustainable development from economic growth perspective: 15 ‘RCEP’ countries. Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, 12(1), 44-61.

Colombo, A., and Richards, G. (2017). Eventful cities as global innovation catalysts: The Sónar Festival network. Event Management, 21(5), 621-634.

Dacin, M. T., Dacin, P. A., & Tracey, P. (2011). Social entrepreneurship: A critique and future directions. Organization science, 22(5), 1203-1213.

Duignan, M.B. (2021). Leveraging Tokyo 2020 to re-image Japan and the Olympic city, post-Fukushima. Journal of Destination Marketing and Management, In Press.

Duignan, M.B., and Pappalepore. I. (2021). How do Olympic cities strategically leverage New Urban Tourism? Evidence from Tokyo. Tourism Geographies, In Press.

Duignan, M.B., Down, S., and O’Brien, D. (2020). Entrepreneurial leveraging in liminoidal Olympic transit zones. Annals of Tourism Research, In Press.

Gürlek, M. (2022). Social Entrepreneurship in Tourism, Hospitality and Events: A State of the Art. Planning and Managing Sustainability in Tourism, 59-78.

Hall, C. M. (2006). Urban entrepreneurship, corporate interests and sports mega-events: the thin policies of competitiveness within the hard outcomes of neoliberalism. The Sociological Review, 54(2_suppl), 59-70.

Klarin, A., & Suseno, Y. (2022). An Integrative Literature Review of Social Entrepreneurship Research: Mapping the Literature and Future Research Directions. Business & Society, 00076503221101611.

Krane, D., Ebdon, C., & Franklin, A. L. (2020). Social entrepreneurship and the challenge of collaborative governance of civic events: Brazil, Korea, and the United States. In Urban studies and entrepreneurship (pp. 119-142). Springer, Cham.

Larson, M. (2009). Festival innovation: Complex and dynamic network interaction. Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, 9(2-3), 288-307.

Mackellar, J. (2006). An integrated view of innovation emerging from a regional festival. International Journal of Event Management Research, 2(1), 37-48.

Mauksch, S. (2017). Managing the dance of enchantment: An ethnography of social entrepreneurship events. Organization, 24(2), 133-153.

Miragaia, D., Ferreira, J., & Pombo, I. (2017). Sponsorship of sports Events: A tool to develop social entrepreneurship and the corporate social responsibility. In Social Entrepreneurship in Non-Profit and Profit Sectors (pp. 107-121). Springer, Cham.

Miragaia, D. A., Ferreira, J., & Ratten, V. (2017). Corporate social responsibility and social entrepreneurship: Drivers of sports sponsorship policy. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 9(4), 613-623.

Miragaia, D. A. M., Martins, C. I. N., Kluka, D. A., & Havens, A. (2015). Corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship and sport programs to develop social capital at community level. International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing, 12(2), 141-154.

Ratten, V. (2021). Sport entrepreneurial ecosystems and knowledge spillovers. Knowledge Management Research & Practice, 19(1), 43-52.

Schüßler, E., Grabher, G. and Müller-Seitz, G. (2015). Field-configuring events: arenas for innovation and learning?. Industry and Innovation, 22(3), 165-172.

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Special Issue - Human Rights and the Olympics

HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE OLYMPICS, MEGA- AND MAJOR- EVENTS

EVENT MANAGEMENT JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE CALL

PUBLISH DATE: 2021-2022

GUEST EDITORS:

Dr Michael B. Duignan, Head of Department and Reader in Events, School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, University of Surrey, UK.

Dr Mike Duignan – Video overview of special issue:
https://youtu.be/IPKHEir_dA4

Prof Laurence Chalip, Head of Department and Professor in Sports Management, School of Sport, Recreation, and Tourism Management, George Mason University, USA.

Prof Laurence Chalip – Thoughts on human rights and the Olympics, mega- and major-events:
https://youtu.be/A1LBPz4VnyI

BACKGROUND

The Olympics, mega- and major- events have a long history of human rights abuse (Amnesty International, 2021a). An increasing body of work over the last two decades have advanced a rights-based agenda in the context of large-scale events (e.g. Caudwell and McGee’s (2017) Special Issue on ‘Human Rights and Events, Leisure and Sport’ and more recently the European Funded ‘Event Rights’ (2020) project). Specific case study works have too sought to frame stakeholder exclusion as a human rights issue, as numerous social groups find have been identified to be exploited in one way or another in the melee of planning, delivery, and in the post-event legacy periods (e.g. Talbot and Carter, 2018; Duignan, Pappalepore and Everett, 2019). Indeed, large scale events too act as a platform for amplifying human rights abuses already existing in the host city and/or country context, as well as those produced as a direct and indirect result of hosting. For example, the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup not only exposed limited national legislation protecting labour rights in Qatar, but this was also evidenced by poor working and living conditions, as well as delayed salaries for those working on the Khalifa Stadium (Amnesty International, 2021b). Occurring over protracted time-periods and geographical boundaries, the host country and city provides a useful incubator to examine human rights issues.

Owners and organisers of large-scale events acutely recognise human rights abuses as a problem that warrants new policy interventions and closer practical relations with host cities and countries, whether that be the Commonwealth Games Foundation’s (2017): ‘Transformation 2022 Strategy – A Human Rights Commitment’, through to the “International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) human rights strategy and policy commitment” (…) looking at “further embedding human rights in the good governance principles, and the establishment of the previously announced Human Rights Advisory Committee.” (IOC, 2020). This is part of a wider movement of large events pressuring hosts to consider embedding principles and objectives aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (2021). Furthermore, local organisingcommittees increasingly work with human rights organisations to tackle specific types of abuses. For example, ‘It’s a Penalty’: an international charity dedicated to raising awareness of human trafficking in host cities, works directly with Olympic venues to screen campaign videos to warn fans of the signs and how to report potential abuses (https://itsapenalty.org/)

This CFP on Human Rights and the Olympics, Mega- and Major-Events hopes to 1) expose significant human rights abuses that have not been adequately amplified to date; 2) bring together a disparate body of work looking at human rights; 3) publish existing and on-going work evaluating the legacy of previous events or looking forward to events in the year of 2021 and beyond; 4) identify good practice, like It’s a Penalty’s work, that illustrates the power of large-scale events for exposing and tackling human rights abuses too; 5) encourage scholars to act as a critical friend and work with policy makers and/or industry to help stimulate positive change.

We are looking for:

Multidisciplinary research papers that draw on a range of different ideas, concepts, theories and traditions appropriate to explain the human rights issue under investigation.
Scholars may wish to take a global perspective (i.e. by drawing on a range of event examples and cases to illustrate the ubiquity of the human rights abuse), or for example may present a specific human right issue in a specific event case study.
All papers must provide a set of policy and/or industry recommendations centred around the following themes:
EDUCATE– educating stakeholders and raising awareness of the chosen human rights issue.
EQUIP– equipping stakeholders and those affected to help tackle chosen human rights issue.
ENCOURAGE– how to encourage stakeholders and those affected to come forward to report chosen human rights issue.

N.B. Clarify how educate, equip, and encourage recommendations have transferability beyond the context you are speaking about to have more universal and/or value across numerous events.

Though this list in not exhaustive, below are examples of human rights issues found across major events:

Human trafficking
Freedom of speech
Labour rights and worker exploitation
Lack of personal safety
Poverty and socio-economic deprivation
Athlete abuse
LGBTQ+ rights
Torture and execution
Police brutality
Black Lives Matter
Forced evictions and displacement
Host community disruption
Gentrification and indirect displacement
Racism
Sexism

For those looking for a deeper understanding regarding the types of human rights issues and the ways these can be analysed and tackled across the entire lifecycle of major events, we have provided two documents below.

The United Nations Human Rights: Office of the High Commissioner (https://www.ohchr.org/en/issues/pages/listofissues.aspx) has a comprehensive list of human rights issues and related resources; and
The Institute for Business and Human Rights provides a useful overview of the ways human rights issues can be analysed and tackled across the entire lifecycle of major events too (https://www.sporthumanrights.org/uploads/resources/The_MSE_Lifecycle_-_Embedding_Human_Rights_from_Vision_to_Legacy.pdf)

References

Amnesty International UK. (2021a). Sports and Human Rights. Available at: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/issues/sport-and-human-rights

Amnesty International UK. (2021b). Qatar World Cup: The ugly side to the beautiful game. Available at: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/qatar-world-cup-ugly-side-beautiful-game

Commonwealth Games Foundation. (2017). Transformation 2022 Strategy – A Human Rights Commitment. Available at: https://thecgf.com/content/cgf-human-rights-statement

Duignan, M.B., Pappalepore, I., & Everett, S. (2019). The ‘summer of discontent’: Exclusion and communal resistance at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Tourism Management, 70, 355-367.

EventRights. (2021). Introduction. Available at: http://eventrights.net/

IOC. (2020). IOC moves forward with its human rights approach. Available at: https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-moves-forward-with-its-human-rights-approach

It’s a Penalty. (2021). Introduction. Available at: https://itsapenalty.org/

Raco, M., & Tunney, E. (2010). Visibilities and invisibilities in urban development: Small business communities and the London Olympics 2012. Urban Studies, 47(2), 2069–2091.

Talbot, A., & Carter, T. (2018). Human rights abuses at the Rio 2016 Olympics. Leisure Studies, 37(1), 77–88.

Deadlines

Deadline for extended abstracts of max 500 words by 12th March, 2021.

Note: send your abstract to: M.Duignan@surrey.ac.uk

Confirmations of acceptance/rejection by 19th March, 2021.
Deadline to submit full paper by 11th October, 2021.

If you have any questions, please email: M.Duignan@surrey.ac.uk