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Sustainability, the Athens Marathon and Greece’s sport event sector: Lessons of resilience, social innovation and the urban commons

Koutrou, Niki and Kohe, Geoffery (2024) Sustainability, the Athens Marathon and Greece’s sport event sector: Lessons of resilience, social innovation and the urban commons. Sport in Society. ISSN 1743-0437

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Abstract

Increasingly, a confluence of challenging global forces have precipitated sport sector change. While responses vary, a discernible trend has been the growing extents to which sport organisations and events have transcended typical participatory, performance and/or spectator focused logistics and embraced social responsibility acts that that embed sport more deeply into communities. These manoeuvres have also become fundamental to organisation and sector capacity building and sustainability. Accordingly, this paper examines the example set by the Athens Marathon, Greece’s leading sport sector entity, towards sustainable event development through its strengthened volunteer and civil society practices and stakeholder relationships. Drawing data from key Athens Marathon informants and building upon conceptual models of sustainability that emphasise the interplay of resilience, social innovation and an urban commons, we demonstrate how the Athens Marathon affords a useful exemplar of how key organisational events may inform sustainability and sector strengthening.
Key words: Athens Marathon, organisational sustainability, volunteering, sport events, civil society

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Additional Information: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
Uncontrolled Keywords: Athens Marathon, organisational sustainability, volunteering, sport events, civil society
Depositing User: Niki Koutrou

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Item ID: 17540
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2024.2341063
ISSN: 1743-0437
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/17540
Official URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17430...

Users with ORCIDS

ORCID for Niki Koutrou: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6382-036X
ORCID for Geoffery Kohe: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6683-6669

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Date Deposited: 19 Apr 2024 13:58
Last Modified: 29 Apr 2024 09:00

Contributors

Author: Niki Koutrou ORCID iD
Author: Geoffery Kohe ORCID iD

University Divisions

Faculty of Business, Law and Tourism

Subjects

Tourism > Events Management
Business and Management > Management (general)

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