Managing the Paralympics

Simon Darcy, Stephen Frawley, Daryl Adair, Simon Darcy, Stephen Frawley, Daryl Adair

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781137435200
• eBook ISBN:
  9781137435224
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Digital Marketing
• Index: Business

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 Olympics and what this means for their management. Managing the Paralympics explores how the organizers and connected stakeholders effectively organize and deliver the Paralympics, taking into account what has been learned from previous events. Including emergent models of best practice from event management, project management and sport management literature, the book gives an insight into the planning of one of the world's biggest sporting events that encompasses ten impairment types and multiple sport classes within sports. 

Table of contents

• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• About the Editors and Contributors
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• List of Images
• 1: The Paralympic Games: Managerial and Strategic Directions
• 2: Stakeholders and the Paralympic Games
• 3: Accessibility as a Key Management Component of the Paralympics
• 4: Managing Legacy and the Paralympic Games
• 5: Managing Paralympic Bodies: The Technology of Classification and Its Impact on (Dis)abled Athletes
• 6: Anti-doping for Paralympians
• 7: Managing Paralympic Sport Organisations—The STEEPLE Framework
• 8: Leading the Team: The Role of the Chef de Mission at the Paralympic Games
• 9: Volunteer Management at the Paralympic Games
• 10: Media and the Paralympics: Progress, Visibility, and Paradox
• 11: Communicating and Managing the Message: Media and Media Representation of Disability and Paralympic Sport
• 12: Marketing and Sponsorship at the Paralympic Games
• 13: Paralympic Paradigm: A Research Agenda
• Index