Urban Entrepreneurship, Corporate Interests and Sports Mega-Events: The Thin Policies of Competitiveness within the Hard Outcomes of Neoliberalism

By Chris Hall. 2006

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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1. Stefan Szymanski
2. Martin Müller
3. G. Kavetsos
4. Andrea Weber
5. Christine Zulehner

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2. Martin Müller
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2. Martin Müller
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4. Andrea Weber
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Citations in the corpus

• The Mega-Event Syndrome: Why So Much Goes Wrong in Mega-Event Planning and What to Do About It (2015, background): “…obliged to fi nish the project regardless of price.1 Cities hosting mega-events portray them as a way of attracting private capital in an environment of increasing interurban competition (Andranovich, Burbank, & Heying, 2001; Burbank, Andranovich, & Heying, 2002; French & Disher, 1997; Hall, 2006).”
• National well-being and international sports events (2010, background): “Moreover, while the construction phase may generate some employment, long term employment related to sport facilities is likely to be part-time, casual, low skilled, and low waged, thus not contributing in the improvement of the quality of full-time jobs (Baade, 1996; Hall, 2006; Whitson and Horne, ”