Olympic risks
Olympic risks
The task of governing the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement now takes place in an age in which states and societies are increasingly organized in response to risk. At the heart of the risk management in governance the Olympics is a tension between the inherent riskiness of mega-events, which is attributable to their scale and complexities, combined with immense societal, political and organisational pressures for foresight, control, safety and security. Over time, staging the Olympics has become more complex, and riskier, as a consequence of its growing scale and commercial success. Since the 1980s, a profound transformation has occurred in how the Games are organised, with the increased transfer of risk to the market and the spread of regulation as a mode of governance, alongside growth in the practice of risk management across functions ranging from finance to security to critical infrastructures to public health. This book is a unique theoretical and empirical account of how the Olympic Games are governed, exploring the challenges and pressures of staging the world’s largest event and the recent emergence of the formal practice of risk management as a response to the operational demands and complexities of the Games.
0230300065
Jennings, Will
2ab3f11c-eb7f-44c6-9ef2-3180c1a954f7
29 May 2012
Jennings, Will
2ab3f11c-eb7f-44c6-9ef2-3180c1a954f7
Jennings, Will
(2012)
Olympic risks
(Executive Politics and Governance),
Basingstoke, GB.
Palgrave Macmillan, 280pp.
Abstract
The task of governing the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement now takes place in an age in which states and societies are increasingly organized in response to risk. At the heart of the risk management in governance the Olympics is a tension between the inherent riskiness of mega-events, which is attributable to their scale and complexities, combined with immense societal, political and organisational pressures for foresight, control, safety and security. Over time, staging the Olympics has become more complex, and riskier, as a consequence of its growing scale and commercial success. Since the 1980s, a profound transformation has occurred in how the Games are organised, with the increased transfer of risk to the market and the spread of regulation as a mode of governance, alongside growth in the practice of risk management across functions ranging from finance to security to critical infrastructures to public health. This book is a unique theoretical and empirical account of how the Olympic Games are governed, exploring the challenges and pressures of staging the world’s largest event and the recent emergence of the formal practice of risk management as a response to the operational demands and complexities of the Games.
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Published date: 29 May 2012
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Funded by ESRC: Going for Gold: The Olympics (RES-063-27-0205)
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Politics & International Relations
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Local EPrints ID: 343607
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/343607
ISBN: 0230300065
PURE UUID: 34eb8bed-f446-40f6-b103-1d3768e4771f
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