Governing Post-Winter Olympic Games Legacies

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of post-Games legacy governance including stakeholder relationships, institutional conditions, and policy environments, while also empirically exploring the modes of governance employed by select cases of the Winter Olympic Games. This work offers insights to help practitioners develop and manage the governance of legacy more effectively. Theoretical and methodological implications, as well as future avenues of research are suggested.

Analyses the evolution of the governance of post-Games legacy organizations over time and across multiple Olympic hosts Identifies practical implications for developing sustainable Olympic legacies in various socio-cultural contexts Offers theoretical and methodological implications for future research on the governance of Olympic legacy

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Jinsu Byun is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sport Industry Studies at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. Becca Leopkey is an Associate Professor of Sport Management at the University of Georgia, Athens, USA. Mathew Dowling is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Management in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.

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Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 The 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games: Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation.- Chapter 3 The 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games: Whistler Sport Legacies.- Chapter 4 The 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games: LIFT Impact Partners.- Chapter 5 The 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games: PyeongChang Legacy Foundation.- Chapter 6 Discussion and Conclusion.