Mega sports events volunteering : journeys with a past, a present and a future
| Autor: | Sheila Ellis Luke, Konstantinos Tomazos |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Pragmatism
Public Administration Sociology and Political Science Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject Applied psychology Context (language use) School of thought Narrative inquiry Commonwealth HD28 Narrative Sociology Business and International Management Social psychology Social policy media_common Meaning (linguistics) |
| ISSN: | 0957-8765 |
| Popis: | Using narrative inquiry, the purpose of this research is to explore volunteer involvement at a mega-sports event (MSE). It responds to a call for research to provide insight into the background of MSE volunteers (Baum and Lockstone, Int J Event Manag Res 3(1):29–41, 2007). This need reflects the limitations of past MSE volunteer studies that have at a large extent merely generated large lists of expectations and motivations through a predominantly survey-based approach. The context used for this study is the Frontrunner pre-event volunteer programme for the (Glasgow, Mission, vision and values, 2014) Commonwealth Games, and a narrative approach is applied allowing the volunteer experience to be considered from both the individual and group perspectives. The stories suggest that the individuals arrive at volunteering at (Glasgow, Mission, vision and values, 2014) as a result of a dynamic process informed by the pragmatist school of thought. The stories also highlight the underlying meaning of volunteers’ involvement through consideration of past lived experiences. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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