The purpose of this Masters thesis was to explore risk management issues and strategies from the perspectives of key stakeholders of large-scale sporting events using a comparative case study of two Canadian sporting events---the ISU (International Skating Union) 2006 World Figure Skating Championships and the U-20 FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association ) World Cup Canada 2007.
A new definition of risk management was proposed as the proactive process that involves assessing all possible risks to the events and its stakeholders by strategically avoiding, preventing, reducing, diffusing, re-allocating, legalizing, and building/managing relationships to mitigate those identified risks. The following categories of risk issues were identified: environment, financial, human resources, infrastructure, interdependence, legacy, media, operations, organizing, participation, political, relationships, sport, threats and visibility. Stakeholders used a variety of strategies to deal with risk in large-scale sporting events. Strategies that emerged during this research fell within the following categories: avoidance, diffusion, legal, re-allocation, prevention, reduction and relationships.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uottawa.ca/oai:ruor.uottawa.ca:10393/27877 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Leopkey, Becca |
| Publisher | University of Ottawa (Canada) |
| Source Sets | Université d’Ottawa |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 109 p. |
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