Olympic Dreams

By Greg Andranovich, Matthew J. Burbank, Charles H. Heying. 2001

209 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Olympic Dreams. - Economic Growth and Local Politics. - Mega-events and Economic Development. - Los Angeles and the 1984 Summer Games. - Atlanta and the 1996 Summer Games. - Salt Lake City and the 2002 Winter Games. - Reading the Olympic Games.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Factors Affecting Repeat Visitation and Flow-on Tourism as Sources of Event Strategy Sustainability (2009, background): “…& Gardiner, 2006) and social (e.g. Kellett et al., 2008) benefits when appropriate leveraging strategies are put into place, benefits are less common in the absence of leverage, and may not be sufficient to justify event expenditures (Burbank et al., 2001; Levine, 2003; Allmers & Maennig, 2008).”
• Social Responsibility and the Olympic Games: The Mediating Role of Consumer Attributions (2010, background): “…critics of the Games argue that rather than promoting "Olympism", the Games have primarily been used to leverage public funds to satisfy elite economic interests, resulting in long-term debt and negative host city impacts (cf. Andranovich et al., 2001; Lenskyj, 2003; Whitson & Macintosh, 1993).”