Managing Global Sport Events: Logistics and Coordination - Hardcover

by David M. Herold (Author), Greg Joachim (Author), Stephen Frawley (Author)

Logistics are a critical element in the planning and realization of any large-scale event. Managing Global Sport Events: Logistics and Coordination provides a critical look behind the scenes of these large-scale sport events by combining the previously separate but inextricably bound areas of sport, logistics and coordination management.

The coordination and logistics activities behind global sports events such as the Olympic Games or Formula 1 Championships are unparalleled, but have largely been ignored by scholars around the world. Managing Global Sport Events presents the latest developments in this intriguing area of study, offering insights from a team of experts across sport, event, and logistics management.

This first volume of the ground-breaking Sports Management series enters unchartered territory and advances our inter-disciplinary knowledge across sport, event and logistics studies, informing both contemporary sport management theory and practice.

Author Biography

David M. Herold is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Transport and Logistics Management, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Austria. David is a logistics and supply chain academic with more than 10 years of professional and management experience in the logistics industry.

Greg Joachim is Lecturer of Strategy and Innovation with a focus on Sport Management at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

Stephen Frawley is Senior Lecturer in Sport Management and Olympic Studies at University of Technology Sydney's Business School, Australia. Having worked for the organising committee for the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Stephen completed his PhD and has published 5 books on how sport mega-events are planned and managed.

Nico Schulenkorf is Associate Professor of Sport Management at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He has published more than 100 scholarly articles and book chapters, and has co-authored and co-edited 10 books in the fields of sport and event management.