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100	1		_aEMERY, P.R _93238
245	1	0	_aBidding to host a major sports event : _bthe local organising committee perspective
260			_c2002
520	3		_aMajor sports events have the potential to offer significant benefits to any city, but at the same time are likely to entail immense resource utilisation and enormous risk. Focussed at the organising committee level, and drawing upon general management and project management literature, aims to collect empirical data to identify current management practice used in the bidding process, and determine key factors in successful bidding. A self-administered postal questionnaire was sent to 220 randomly selected major sports event organisers from ten different countries. Targeted at the chief executive officer level or equivalent, the questionanaire provided general contextual detail and focussed on present sports event management practices and processes. To gain more in-depth understanding of successful applications, three semi-structured interviews were administered in England. The findings reveal that the primary motivatins behind local authority involvement are heightening are profile and sport promotion. Successfull public sector applications, were found to use bounded rational decision-making, driven largely by political reasoning rather than detailed objective analysis. Specifically identifies and discusses five key factors behing successful national and internatinal governing body approval
650		4	_aSport _916931
650		4	_aTendering _916932
650		4	_aMarketing _912212
773	0	8	_tThe International Journal of Public Sector Management _g15, 4-5, p. 316-355 _d, 2002 _w
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998			_a20020930 _bLucima _cLucimara
998			_a20070130 _b1737^b _cZailton
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c7565 _d7565
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