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A new conceptualization of mega sports event legacy delivery: Wicked problems and critical realist solution
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posted on 2019-04-29, 09:09 authored by Terri Byers, Emily HaydayEmily Hayday, Athanasios (Sakis) PappousThe authors present a new conceptualization of mega sports event legacy delivery, which accounts for the problematic nature of legacy by viewing it as a wicked problem. Research on mega sports event legacy has focused on establishing typologies of legacy, investigating outcomes, and consequences, with limited attention to legacy delivery. The conceptualization of legacy delivery has largely relied on a positive, utopian legacy rhetoric. In contrast, the authors advance the understanding of legacy by proposing a conceptual approach of the legacy delivery process, to enable empirical studies in different contexts to be conducted. Specifically, the authors examine the wicked problem of mega sports event legacy delivery from a Critical Realist perspective, which serves to give meaning and order to this complex process. This conceptualization reveals that legacy delivery is inclusive of deep social structures which underpin different stakeholders’ interpretations and interactions, which produce or limit legacy delivery. The role of social, generative structures as causal mechanisms has not been considered as a way to understand legacy delivery previously. Implications for teaching, research, and practice are discussed to demonstrate the value of this new approach. Importantly, this conceptualization focuses on processes rather than outcomes and encourages the identification of unexpected or unanticipated components of legacy delivery beyond the formal policies and plans designed to create or leverage legacy.
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- Loughborough University London
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Sport Management ReviewVolume
23Issue
2Pages
171-182Citation
BYERS, T., HAYDAY, E.J. and PAPPOUS, A., 2019. A new conceptualization of mega sports event legacy delivery: Wicked problems and critical realist solution. Sport Management Review, doi:10.1016/j.smr.2019.04.001.Publisher
Elsevier © Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand.Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Sport Management Review and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smr.2019.04.001Acceptance date
2019-04-02Publication date
2019-04-26Copyright date
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1441-3523Publisher version
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- en
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