Cheryl Mallen

Environmental sustainability in sport facility management: a Delphi study.

Abstract This Delphi study examines environmental sustainability (ES) in sport facility management. The study includes three questionnaire iterations with 31 expert participants from 16 major North American sport facilities. The results reveal the state of sport facility ES, including the reported value, financial support, best practices, challenges and delineated competencies for students seeking to enter the field. In addition, emerging trends are discussed based on a vision of ES in the sport facility industry by the year 2015. The results of this study are applied to sport management education in an effort to guide educators to initiate classroom discussions and debates that can shape discourse on ES. It is hoped that this discourse can provide insights, assumptions, values, options, theory and foster the development of student competencies for ES.

The Assessment of the Environmental Performance of an International Multi-Sport Event

ABSTRACT Despite recent calls to reduce the environmental impact of major sporting events, comprehensive measurements, evaluations, and reports on environmental sustainability (ES) within the sport sector are rare. Consequently, the purpose of this multi-method case study was to assess the environmental performance (EP) of an international multi-sport event. Survey and interview data were collected from 15 event managers and executive volunteers (N=15). The findings indicated the event organization demonstrated a high level of effort towards initiating an ES movement within the Games but ultimately achieved a weak to moderate level of EP. Further, structural, systemic and cultural organization barriers prevented the implementation of many ES policies and programs. Sport event EP success is contingent upon organizers understanding both the operational reality in which they must stage the event, and their strategic capability to fulfill this goal.

The interpretation of environmental sustainability by the International Olympic Committee and Organizing Committees of the Olympic Games from 1994 to 2008

The purpose of this qualitative multicase study was to examine the interpretation of environmental sustainability (ES) within the Olympic Movement. Two research questions guided the inquiry and sought to identify: (1) how the concept of ES has been defined by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and (2) how the concept of ES has been defined and enacted by the Organizing Committees of the Olympic Games (OCOGs). Raufflets model of Corporate Environmental Management (CEM) paradigms guided a content analysis of 134 ES-related IOC and OCOG documents from 1994 to 2008. Findings revealed the IOC reflected a CEM adaptive paradigm. The OCOGs reflected an adaptive paradigm during the bid phase of the Games preparation that shifted to an incremental/detrimental paradigm during Games-staging. In addition, the findings indicated that the IOC and OCOGs CEM paradigms were incongruent.

Implementing Change-Oriented Pedagogy in Higher Education: An Exploration of Instructors' Experiences and Perceptions

Abstract This inquiry provided university educators with an opportunity to experience a conceptual pedagogical change model (the Change Infusion Model). The model encouraged framing teaching and learning activities with characteristics of theories of change to encourage learning for change. This inquiry developed understandings of educators’ realities of pedagogical change. Data collection procedures were framed with LaBoskey’s Dimensions of Reflection (1993) and involved a written and collaborative discourse method. Analysis involved ‘sensitizing concepts’ (Patton, 2002) to guide the generation of meaning of the experiences of change. The findings revealed 4 paradoxes that have significant meaning in the professional lives of educators. The significance of this inquiry is its contribution to understandings of the challenge of approaching pedagogical change from practitioners’ perspectives.

Event management in sport, recreation and tourism : theoretical and practical dimensions

Chapter 1. Traditional and Niche Sport, Recreation and Tourism Events - Dr. Cheryl Mallen and Dr. Lorne J. Adams Chapter 2. The Concept of Knowledge in Event Management - Dr. Cheryl Mallen Chapter 3. The Event Planning Model: The Event Development Phase, Part 1 Chapter 4. The Event Planning Model: The Development Phase, Part 11 Chapter 5. The Event Planning Model: The Event Operational Planning Phase - Dr. Cheryl Mallen Chapter 6. The Event Planning Model: The Event Implementation, Monitoring, and Management Phase - Dr. Lorne J. Adams Chapter 7. The Event Planning Model: The Event Evaluation and Renewal Phase - Dr. Scott Forrester and Dr. Lorne Adams Chapter 8. Safeguarding the Natural Environment in Event Management - Dr. Chris Chard and Matt Dolf Chapter 9. Facilitating Quality in Event Management - Dr. Craig Hyatt and Dr. Chris Chard Chapter 10. Event Bidding - Dr. Cheryl Mallen Chapter 11. Politics in Event Bidding and Hosting by Trish Chant-Sehl Chapter 12. Conclusions - Dr. Lorne J. Adams