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Designing small-scale sport events in the countryside

Bertella, Giovanna - In: International Journal of Event and Festival Management 5 (2014) 2, pp. 132-145

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop and illustrate a conceptual tool for the planning of rural sport events. Design/methodology/approach – The proposed model is elaborated based on theoretical contributions from the tourism and event literature, and illustrated with an...

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Event and community involvement of sport event volunteers

Hallmann, Kirstin; Zehrer, Anita - In: International Journal of Event and Festival Management 8 (2017) 3, pp. 308-323

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the potential interrelationship between different types of volunteer involvement (event involvement and community involvement) and their impact on the behavioural intentions of different types of events. Design/methodology/approach By means of...

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The relationship between real sports and digital adaptation in e-sport gaming

Hebbel-Seeger, Andreas - In: International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship 13 (2012) 2, pp. 43-54

The relationship between real sport and its digital adaptation is significantly influenced by technological advancements. However, it is not a process that has developed in a linear fashion. On the contrary, it has been formed from diverse, parallel and to some extent opposing processes. In this...

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Emerging technologies and sports events

Petrović, Lidija T.; Milovanović, Dragorad; … - In: Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal 5 (2015) 2, pp. 175-190

visualisation in TV broadcasting and players/teams performance analysis in football. The paper concludes with the authors’ opinion … issue of video technology application to ease decision making in football is currently one of the most pressing matters due … to constant arrival of new cases concerning “incorrect” decisions that add fuel to the controversy. The football …

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London 2012: Medal projection

Maennig, Wolfgang; Wellbrock, Christian - 2012

We project the medal number and medal ranking for the Olympic Games in London in 2012. The largest relative increase is predicted for Brazil (80% more medals) and the UK (+28%). UK will continue to rank 4th. The largest decreases in medal numbers are predicted for Australia (-13%, but remains in...

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The Olympic effect: A reply

Maennig, Wolfgang; Richter, Felix - 2011

Rose & Spiegel (2011) find that Olympic Games host countries experience significant positive and lasting effects on exports. They interpret their results as an indication that countries use the hosting of such an event as a signal of their (new) openness and competitiveness. We challenge these...

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Optimally scheduling real world sports leagues by reduction to SAT

Horbach, Andrei; Bartsch, Thomas; Briskorn, Dirk - 2009

Several types of constraints must be satisfied by schedules of real world sports leagues, e. g. stadium unavailability, fixed matches, forbidden matches, minimum number of breaks. Taking into account such constraints, determining a feasible schedule becomes a challenging task. Usually, there is...

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A Lagrangian approach for minimum cost tournaments

Briskorn, Dirk; Horbach, Andrei - 2009

Single round robin tournaments are a well known class of sports leagues schedules. We consider leagues with a set T of n teams where n is even. Costs are associated to each possible match. Since matches are carried out at one of both opponents venues matches may be forbidden in certain periods...

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Round-robin tournaments with minimum number of breaks and two teams per club

van 't Hof, Pim; Post, Gerhard; Briskorn, Dirk - 2009

We study round-robin tournaments for 2n teams. Here n is either interpreted as the number of clubs, each having two teams, or the number of strength groups with two teams each. For even n we give a construction of a Single round-robin tournament for 2n teams with 2n - 2 breaks, where the teams...

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Ambush Marketing bei Sport-Events

Müller, Philipp - 2011

Das Phänomen Ambush Marketing konnte in den letzten Jahren vor allem in der Praxis an Bedeutung und Professionalität gewinnen. Die Ursachen für ein stärkeres Auftreten von Ambush Marketing sind die immer weiter steigenden Kosten für offizielle Sponsorenrechte an Sportveranstaltungen. Somit...

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