Sport and project management: a window into the development of temporary organizations

TY - CHAP

T1 - Sport and project management

T2 - a window into the development of temporary organizations

AU - Gillett, Alex G.

AU - Tennent, Kevin D.

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Kyle Bruce 2020. All rights reserved.

PY - 2020/4/1

Y1 - 2020/4/1

N2 - The historical study of project-based industries allows largely unexploited opportunities for empirical, methodological and theoretical contributions to the field of management history. McDowell (2015) and Scranton (2014) demonstrate that the study of projects can enable an understanding of temporary and virtual organizations that link together multiple agencies each contributing to an overall value or ‘legacy’ comprising outputs and outcomes. This chapter proposes that researching global or continental scale sport mega-event projects can capture these attributes, for example the delivery and associated long-term legacy of the Olympic Games or FIFA World Cup. Project management history therefore offers a window into the delivery of a project as well as a broader opportunity to study the ways that organizations and individuals within them cooperate to deliver outcomes allowing management historians to contribute to debates around the usefulness of such events to society, as well as the institutional context within which they are nested.

AB - The historical study of project-based industries allows largely unexploited opportunities for empirical, methodological and theoretical contributions to the field of management history. McDowell (2015) and Scranton (2014) demonstrate that the study of projects can enable an understanding of temporary and virtual organizations that link together multiple agencies each contributing to an overall value or ‘legacy’ comprising outputs and outcomes. This chapter proposes that researching global or continental scale sport mega-event projects can capture these attributes, for example the delivery and associated long-term legacy of the Olympic Games or FIFA World Cup. Project management history therefore offers a window into the delivery of a project as well as a broader opportunity to study the ways that organizations and individuals within them cooperate to deliver outcomes allowing management historians to contribute to debates around the usefulness of such events to society, as well as the institutional context within which they are nested.

KW - management history

KW - business history

KW - organizational history

KW - project management

KW - sport history

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85092574435&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.4337/9781788118491.00016

DO - 10.4337/9781788118491.00016

M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)

AN - SCOPUS:85092574435

SN - 9781788118484

SP - 169

EP - 191

BT - Handbook of Research on Management and Organizational History

PB - Edward Elgar Publishing

ER -