A Research Agenda for Event Management

'A Research Agenda for Event Management is a new benchmark for illustrating how the subject area has matured into the mainstream of applied research. Students, practitioners and academics will all benefit from reading the various perspectives through which events are analysed, with Donald Getz's ''five challenges'' a notable highlight in showing us the way forward.' --Simon Shibli, Sheffield Hallam University, UK'What happens when the world's leading event management researchers collaborate to bring forth new knowledge? This book conclusively proves, through these great academic minds, that event research is growing stronger and as a result the events industry shall continue to grow from strength to strength.' --Joe Goldblatt, Queen Margaret University, Scotland

Edited by John Armbrecht, Erik Lundberg and Tommy D. Andersson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Contents: 1. Introduction to a Research Agenda for Event Management Erik Lundberg, Tommy D. Andersson and John Armbrecht Part I Events in Society 2. Re-thinking Event Sustainability Judith Mair 3. The Past, Present and Future of Event Safety Research Morten Thanning Vendelo 4. Event Bidding: A Research Agenda for Major and Mega Sport Events David McGillivray, Daniel Turner and John Lauermann 5. Event Evaluation and Impact Assessment: Five Challenges Donald Getz Part II The Event Consumer 6. Re-thinking the Value of Events for event attendees: Emerging Themes from Psychology Eliza Kitchen and Sebastian Filep 7. Event Experience Research Directions Greg Richards 8. Managing Extraordinary Event Experiences: Understanding Consumer Immersion Lena Mossberg 9. Participant Events and the Active Event Consumer Tommy D. Andersson, John Armbrecht and Erik Lundberg Part III The Event Organisation 10. Revisiting and Advancing the Research Agenda for Event Volunteering Karen A. Smith, Leonie Lockstone-Binney and Kirsten Holmes 11. Knowledge Management in Event and Festival Organisations: Challenges and Future Directions Raphaela Stadler Index