Daniel S. Mason

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the potential that the hosting of sporting events has for the creation of community networks and suggest that the construct of social capital might offer an important theoretical paradigm for understanding how sporting events can be used to build community networks.

TL;DR: In this paper, professional sports have emerged as a lucrative business, with many opportunities forsports marketers to flourish, and professional sports teams unite to produce a league product that, while initially being produced to provide entertainment for spectators, is now sold to four distinct groups: first, fans who support leagues by attending games, following games on television and other media, and purchasing league-and team-related merchandise; second, television, other media companies which purchase the right to show games as a programmingoption; third, communities which build facilities and support local clubs; and fourth, corporations which

TL;DR: In this paper, the basic tenets of stakeholder theory and its application to sports-related issues are reviewed and suggested for sport management practitioners and academics alike, in an effort to show that Stakeholder analysis can be used to identify stakeholders, stakeholder claims, motivations and relative importance, by evaluating stakeholders' levels of power, legitimacy and urgency related to the issue.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the case of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) by reviewing the behavior of selected IOC members with regard to the bidding process for the Olympic Games and the resulting reform attempts made by the IOC in an effort to address issues of corruption.

TL;DR: This paper examined the perceptions of members of urban regimes in three cities: Edmonton, Manchester, and Melbourne, regarding the use of sporting events for broad-based community outcomes, and found that regime members in the latter two cities provided examples of symbolic attempts to foster community around the sporting events strategies.