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Strategy And Planning In The Context Of Sport, Milena Parent, Danny O'Brien, Trevor Slack
Strategy And Planning In The Context Of Sport, Milena Parent, Danny O'Brien, Trevor Slack
Danny O'Brien
TOPICS The nature of strategy The strategic management process Strategic sport management in the twenty-first century
Understanding Chinese Diners In An Overseas Context: A Cultural Perspective, Rui Hoare, Danny O'Brien, Ken Butcher
Understanding Chinese Diners In An Overseas Context: A Cultural Perspective, Rui Hoare, Danny O'Brien, Ken Butcher
Danny O'Brien
With increasing numbers of Chinese tourists dining overseas, understanding the cultural perspective of Chinese diners would appear essential to international restaurateurs. Thus, this study identifies a set of core Chinese values that is salient in the overseas dining context. Phenomenological in-depth interviews were used to collect data from a onvenience sample of 20 Chinese diners. Face, trustworthiness, and harmony were identified as the three core values. In addition, group membership was found to interact with face and trustworthiness in this context. These findings provide a deeper understanding of Chinese diners in overseas dining contexts and hold significance for both practitioners …
Surf Tourism, Sport Development And Community Building: Exploring The Nexus In Remote Papua New Guinea., Danny O'Brien
Surf Tourism, Sport Development And Community Building: Exploring The Nexus In Remote Papua New Guinea., Danny O'Brien
Danny O'Brien
This research explores the introduction of a commercial sport tourism venture into a remote community in Papua New Guinea (PNG), and addresses the question, how can sport tourism be used to promote community building in a developing country? The venture specifically focuses on surf tourism, and commenced operation in late 2009 with a mandate to facilitate community development. The surf tourism sector is an integral part of the multibillion dollar global surfing industry (Buckley, 2002), and surf tourists are defined as individuals who travel to destinations for the express purpose of riding surfboards (Dolnicar & Fluker, 2003). Much surf tourism …
Organization Theory And Sport Management, Milena Parent, Danny O'Brien, Trevor Slack
Organization Theory And Sport Management, Milena Parent, Danny O'Brien, Trevor Slack
Danny O'Brien
TOPICS Basic tents of organisation theory Organisational Characteristics Contextual dimensions Organisational processes
Examining Motivation For Charity Sport Event Participation: A Comparison Of Recreation-Based And Charity-Based Motives, Kevin Filo, Daniel Funk, Danny O'Brien
Examining Motivation For Charity Sport Event Participation: A Comparison Of Recreation-Based And Charity-Based Motives, Kevin Filo, Daniel Funk, Danny O'Brien
Danny O'Brien
This paper examines the role of recreation motives and motives for charitable giving in the development of participants’ attachment to a charity sport event across two different events. Online questionnaires were administered within a pilot study, and then given to participants in the 2007 Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) LIVESTRONG Challenge (N=568) and the 2007 3M Half Marathon and Relay (N=689). Regression analysis revealed both recreation-based and charity-based motives contribute to attachment to the events. The findings also demonstrate that the charity-based motives make a stronger contribution for the 2007 LAF LIVESTRONG Challenge, while recreation-based motives make a stronger contribution for …