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Event Studies

  1. Events and The Social Sciences

    By Hazel Andrews, Teresa Leopold

    As the events management field expands as an area of study, there is a need to move beyond the business and marketing-driven approaches which dominate the literature towards a more advanced conceptual analysis and understanding of events from a socio-cultural context. This book addresses this need...

    Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Events and the Environment

    By Robert Case

    Many of our planet’s support systems are in crisis. Climate change, resource shortages and environmental pollution threaten our economy and lifestyles. Society as a whole needs to adopt policies that can meet these challenges. The ever expanding event industry is no exception. Anyone involved in...

    Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge

  3. Event Studies

    Theory, Research and Policy for Planned Events, 2nd Edition

    By Donald Getz

    Series: Events Management

    Event Studies is the only book devoted to developing knowledge and theory about planned events. This book focuses on event planning and management, outcomes, the experience of events and the meanings attached to them, the dynamic processes shaping events and why people attend them. Event Studies...

    Published March 5th 2012 by Routledge

  4. Event Policy

    From Theory to Strategy

    By Malcolm Foley, David McGillivray, Gayle McPherson

    As the event management field expands, there has been an emergence of a distinctive ‘events’ policy field of study and a need for more advanced texts that look at this subject with a multidisciplinary research and theoretical orientation. Events Policy: From Theory to Strategy is the first text to...

    Published August 29th 2011 by Routledge

  5. Events Feasibility and Development

    By William O'Toole

    Series: Events Management

    Events Feasibility and Development: From Strategy to Operations describes the optimum way to develop and grow events. It demonstrates how governments and companies create the event portfolio to maximise their investment. It describes the latest in the growing event industry around the world: the...

    Published December 13th 2010 by Routledge

  6. Eventful Cities

    By Greg Richards, Robert Palmer

    Processes of globalization, economic restructuring and urban redevelopment have placed events at the centre of strategies for change in cities. Events offer the potential to achieve economic, social, cultural and environmental outcomes within broader urban development strategies. This volume:...

    Published April 22nd 2010 by Routledge