Studying the complexities of events and festivals and relationships to the visitor economy

Robertson, Martin; Mair, Judith; Lockstone-Binney, Leonie; Duignan, Michael B.

Abstract

This chapter argues festivals and events are complex management and organisational contexts. It suggests overlaying events management studies with organisational studies is a fruitful space for theoretical and applied analysis. This chapter aims to illustrate how festivals/events offer a unique organisational setting for scholars to conduct empirical analysis and drive theory development. It also aims to suggest ways festival/event scholars can draw on theories as a way to better examine and understand the complex processes and practices of production and consumption that characterise small-, medium-, and particularly large-scale sporting and cultural events/festivals, and evaluate and explain why the two points above are needed and how to achieve this.

• Online Publication Date: Dec 22, 2021
• Publication Date: 2021-12
• Deposit Date: Aug 2, 2021
• Publisher: CAB International Publishing
• Pages: 5-13
• Book Title: Managing events, festivals and the the visitor economy - concepts, collaborations and cases
• Chapter Number: 2
• ISBN: 9781789242843
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1079/9781789242843.0002
• Keywords: Events
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2790359