Publications

PUBLICATIONS

Academic outputs

2025

Rinker, Y., Hannawacker, A., & Preuss, H. (2025) Ecological cost-benefit analysis of mega sport events: A conceptual framework for sustainable sports management. Journal of Olympic Studies, 6(1), 67-88.

2023

Bazzanella, F., Schnitzer, M., Peters, M., & Bichler, B. F. (2023). The role of sports events in developing tourism destinations: A systematized review and future research agenda. Journal of Sport & Tourism, 27(2), 77–109.
Brittain, I. & Christiaens, M. (In press). Disability, Sport and Inclusion. In Wenner, L. (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society; Oxford University Press, UK. (Chapter 44).
Duignan, M., Brittain, I., Hansen, M., Fyall, A., Gerard, S. & Page, S. (2023). Leveraging accessible tourism development through mega-events, and the disability-attitude gap. Tourism Management.
Duignan, M., Carlini, J., & Parent, M. (2023). Host community salience loss across major sport event planning. European Sport Management Quarterly, 1–23.
Duignan, M., Carlini, J., & McGillivray, D. (2023). Parasitic events and host destination resource dependence: Evidence from the Gold Coast 2018 commonwealth games. Journal of Destination Marketing & Management, 30, 100796.
Duignan, M. B., Parent, M. M., & McGillivray, D. (2023). Accommodating (global–glocal) paradoxes across event planning. Event Management, 27(1), 149–154.
Duignan, M. B., Zou, S., Park, J., Everett, S., Walsh, L., Page, S., Fyall, A., & Hansen, M. (2023). How do event zones influence visitor behaviour and engagement with host destinations? A longitudinal study of the Cambridge half marathon (2017–2020). Journal of Destination Marketing & Management, 30, 100798.
Glibo, I., & Koenigstorfer, J. (2023). Understanding the nexus of sustainable development and sport: the systems thinking perspective. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 19(1), 2240664.
Koenigstorfer, J., Kolbinger, O., & McGillivray, D. (2023). Athlete Activism, Human Rights, and the 2020 Olympic Games: A Twitter Analysis of Raven Saunders’ Activism. Event Management, 27(6), 895-913.
Koenigstorfer, J., Yanxiang Y., Bocarro, J.N., Brittain, I., Lundberg, E., McGillivray, D., Misener, L., Chalip, L and Duignan, M.B. (2023). The State of Play between Managing Major Sport Events and Human Rights: A Scoping Review. Event Management, 27(6), 823-849.
McGillivray, D., McPherson, G., Bocarro, J. N., & Heerdt, D. (2023). Editorial: Foregrounding a rights- based agenda for sport events. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 5.
Pape, L., Koenigstorfer, J., & Casper, J. (2023). Sport teams’ promotion of plant-based food consumption among fans. Sport Management Review, 1-25.
Preuss, H. & Weitzmann, M. (2023) Changes of costs, expenditures and revenues between bidding and staging the Olympic Games from Sydney 2000 to Tokyo 2020. Event Management, 27(3), 455-476.
Quinn, N., & Misener, L. (2023). It’s classified: Classification, disability rights and commonwealth games. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 5.
Talbot, A (2023) Human rights at the Olympic Games: policy, protest, progress? Event Management, 27 (6), 915-930.

2022

Bailey, R. & Glibo, I. (2022). Sport, Education, and Opportunity. In Wenner, L. (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society; Oxford University Press, UK. (Chapter 34).
Bazzanella, F; Bichler, B; Schnitzer, M (2022): Collaboration and meta-organisation in event tourism – Effects of the Olympic Agenda 2020 on planning the 2026 Winter Olympics. Tourism Management Perspectives 41, No. 100939.
Brittain, I. (2022) Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Legacy, Disability and Japan – Muzukashi desu ne? Journal of the Nippon Foundation Paralympic Research Group, Vol. 17, p. 71-93. (Open Access).
Brittain, I., Bunds, K. & Bocarro, J. (2022) The Role of Sport beyond Conventional Rehabilitation: Perspectives from Competitors, Friends and Family Members at the 2016 Invictus Games. Journal of Global Sport Management. https://doi.org/10.1080/24704067.2022.2031249
Brittain, I. & Christiaens, M. (2022). Disability, Sport and Inclusion. In Wenner, L. (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society; Oxford University Press, UK. (Chapter 44). pp. 867-888.
Duignan, M.B., Everett, S., & McCabe, S. (2022). Events as catalysts for communal resistance to overtourism. Annals of Tourism Research, 96, 103438.
Feilhauer, E; Schnitzer, M; Walde, J; Tappeiner, G (2022): Olympic Games Reloaded: can the Olympic Agenda 2020 push residents’ support for the mega-event? European Sport Management Quarterly.
Feilhauer, E; Schnitzer, M; Walde, J; Tappeiner, G (2022): What residents of potential Olympic cities want: using conjoint analysis to deal with dominant and heterogeneous preferences.Current Issues in Tourism.
Glibo, I., Misener, L., & Koenigstorfer, J. (2022). Strategic Sustainable Development in International Sport Organisations: A Delphi Study. Sustainability, 14(16), 9874.
McGillivray, D., Koenigstorfer, J., Bocarro, J.N., & Edwards, M.B. (2022) The role of advocacy organisations for ethical mega sport events, Sport Management Review, 25:2, 234-253, DOI: 10.1080/14413523.2021.1955531
Schlemmer, P; Stickdorn, M; Kristiansen, E; Schnitzer, M (2022): A mixed methods stakeholder satisfaction study of sports events based on the case of the 2016 international children’s games. Journal of Convention & Event Tourism 23/1, S. 41 – 62.
Walsh, L., Down, S., & Duignan, M.B. (2022). Regulatory informality across Olympic event zones. Event Management, 26(3), 587-603.
Yoda, R. (2022). Understanding the role of international sport events on sport and exercise participation. An examination of hosted and postponed events among different age segments. Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Coventry University.
イアン・ブリテン (2022). 東京2020のパラリンピック・レガシー，障がいおよび日本──むずかしいですね？(Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Legacy, Disability and Japan – Muzukashi desu ne?) Journal of the Nippon Foundation Paralympic Research Group. (Open Access) Vol. 18, p. 241-261. (Open Access).

2021

Christiaens, M. & Brittain, I. (2021) The complexities of implementing inclusion policies for people with disabilities in U.K. non-disabled voluntary community sports clubs and the implications for participation opportunities. European Sports Management Quarterly. (Open Access)
Duignan, D. M. (2021). Leveraging Tokyo 2020 to re-image Japan and the Olympic City, post- Fukushima. Journal of Destination Marketing & Management, 19, 100486.
Duignan, M.B. (2021). Utilizing field theory to examine mega-event led development. Event Management, 25(6), 705–720.
Duignan, M.B., & Pappalepore, I. (2021). How do Olympic cities strategically leverage new urban tourism? Evidence from Tokyo. Tourism Geographies, 1–25.
Lange de Souza, D. & Brittain, I. (2021) The Rio 2016 Paralympic Games: Inspiration as a Possible Legacy for Brazilians with Disabilities. European Journal for Sport and Society, 19(1), 78-93.
Lange de Souza, D. & Brittain, I. (2020) The Rio 2016 Paralympic Games: The Visibility of People With Disabilities in Brazil as a Possible Legacy. Communication and Sport Journal, 10(2), 334-353.
Talbot, A. (2021). Talking about the ‘rotten fruits’ of Rio 2016: Framing mega-event legacies. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 56(1), 20–35. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1012690219878842

2020

Brittain, I. (2020). Participation Legacy and the Olympic and Paralympic Games. In Neri, M. (Ed.), Evaluating the Local Impacts of the Rio Olympics, Routledge, U.K. (Chapter 1). pp. 3-24.
Brittain, I., Biscaia, R. & Gerard, S. (2020). Ableism as a regulator of social practice and people with disabilities’ self-determination to participate in sport and physical activity. Leisure Studies, 39(2), 209-224.
Gerard, S., Brittain, I., Jones, A. and Thomas, G. (2020). The Impact of Austerity on the London 2012 Participation Legacy from a Grass Roots Sports Club Perspective: An Institutional Logics Approach. Leisure Studies, 39(5), 629–643.
Koenigstorfer, J. (2020). Human rights issues in host countries of the Olympic Games and resulting differences in consumer evaluations. European Sport Management Quarterly, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/16184742.2020.1850825
Lange de Souza, D. & Brittain, I. (2020) The Rio 2016 Paralympic Games: The Visibility of People With Disabilities in Brazil as a Possible Legacy. Communication and Sport Journal. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2167479520942739

2019

Armbrecht, J., Lundberg, E., & Andersson, T. D. (2019). A Research Agenda for Event Management: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Andersson, T. D. & Quist, J. (2019). Legacy och evenemang: En modell för att arbeta långsiktigt med effekter av evenemang [Legacy and events: a model for long-term planning of event impacts]. BFUF: Stockholm. Available here.
Brittain, I. (2019) The Impact of Resource Inequality upon Participation and Success at the summer and winter Paralympic Games. Journal of the Nippon Foundation Paralympic Research Group, Vol. 12(Sept); p. 41-67.
Bunds, K., McLeod, C., Barrett, M., Newman, J. & Koenigstorfer, J. (2019). The Object-Oriented Politics of Stadium Sustainability: A Case Study of SC Freiburg. Sustainability, 11(23), 6712.
Duignan, M.B & McGillivray, D (2019) Disorganised host community touristic-event spaces: revealing Rio’s fault lines at the 2016 Olympic Games, Leisure Studies, Vol. 38(5), 692-711.
Koenigstorfer, J. & Preuss, H. (2019). Olympic Games-Related Values and Host Country Residents’ Pre-event Evaluations in the Run-Up to the 2016 Olympic Games. Journal of Global Sport Management, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/24704067.2019.1669065
Koenigstorfer, J., Bocarro, J.N., Byers, T., Edwards, M.B., Jones, G.J. and Preuss, H (2019). Mapping Research on Legacy of Mega Sporting Events: Structural Changes, Consequences, and Stakeholder Evaluations in Empirical Studies, Leisure Studies, Vol. 38(6), 729-745.
McGillivray, D., O’Donnell, H., McPherson, G., & Misener, L (2019). Repurposing the (Super)Crip: Media Representations of Disability at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, Communication & Sport, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2167479519853496
McGillivray, D., Turner, D, & Lauermann, J (2019) Event Bidding: A Research Agenda. In: Armbrecht, J., Lundberg, E., & Andersson, T. D. (Eds.). A Research Agenda for Event Management: Edward Elgar Publishing.
McGillivray, D., Edwards, M., Brittain, I., Bocarro, J. & Koenigstorfer, J. (2018) A Conceptual Model and Research Agenda for Bidding, Planning and Delivering Major Sport Events that Lever Human Rights-Based Progressive Social Opportunities. Leisure Studies, Vol. 38(2), 175-190.
Neri, M. (Ed.), Evaluating the Local Impacts of the Rio Olympics, Routledge, U.K.

Media Publications

Brittain, I., Duignan, M. & Postlethwaite, V. (2022, 27th July). London 2012’s legacy boosted Paralympic sport, but disabled people’s lives have worsened. The Conversation, available here.

Eventrights exhibition posters can be accessed here.

Eventrights exhibition notebook can be accessed here Events Rights Notebook