ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I explore the framework I developed in my paper titled ‘Evolution and issue patterns for major-sport-event organizing committees and their stakeholders’, published in the Journal of Sport Management (Parent, 2008). The purpose of the article was ‘to develop a framework of how an organising committee operationally evolves over time and the types of issues with which it and its stakeholders must deal’ (p. 136). This study was part of my doctoral dissertation, in which I took an organisation theory perspective to understand the type of organisation (temporary, project, business, passion, adrenaline, etc.) an organising committee is, how it changes or evolves, who surrounds the organising committee, and what do they want/need.
