Past, present, future major sport event management practice: The practitioner perspective

Sport Management Review

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 158-170

  Emery, Paul ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Event management; Major sport event; Practitioner

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649234806     PISSN: 14413523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.smr.2009.06.003     Document Type: Article

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