Managing the Paralympics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Darcy, Simon (Editor), Frawley, Stephen (Editor), Adair, Daryl (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Business.; Internet marketing.; Management.; Tourism.; Religion and culture.; Sports > Sociological aspects.; Human body > Social aspects.; Business and Management.; Online Marketing/Social Media.; Sociology of Sport and Leisure.; Sociology of the Body.; Tourism Management.; Sociology of Culture.

This book critically examines the planning, management, and operations of the world’s premier event for Para sport athletes. Noting a lack of research into how these games are planned and managed, the authors of this contributed volume discuss how the Paralympics are essentially different to the Oly...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 The Paralympic Games: Managerial and Strategic Directions (Simon Darcy, Stephen Frawley and Daryl Adair)
• Chapter 2 Stakeholders and the Paralympic Games (Mathew Dowling and David Legg)
• Chapter 3 Accessibility as a Key Management Component of the Paralympics (Simon Darcy)
• Chapter 4 Managing Legacy and the Paralympic Games (Laura Misener)
• Chapter 5 Managing Paralympic bodies: the technology of classification and its impact on (dis)abled athletes (P. David Howe and Paul J. Kitchin)
• Chapter 6 Anti-doping for Paralympians (Daryl Adair)
• Chapter 7 Managing Paralympic Sport Organisations – The STEEPLE Framework (Mary Hums and Eli A Wolff)
• Chapter 8 Leading the Team: The Role of the Chef de Mission at the Paralympic Games (Darren Peters, Stephen Frawley and Daniel Favaloro)
• Chapter 9 Volunteer Management at the Paralympic Games (Tracey J Dickson, F. Anne Terwiel and Fiona Buick)
• Chapter 10 Media and the Paralympics: Progress, Visibility and Paradox (Gerard Goggin and Brett Hutchins)
• Chapter 11 Communicating and Managing the Message: Media and Media Representation of Disability and Paralympic Sport (Ian Brittain)
• Chapter 12 Marketing and Sponsorship at the Paralympic Games (David Legg and Mark Dottori)
• Chapter 13 Strategic Opportunities and Future Research (Simon Darcy, Stephen Frawley and Daryl Adair).