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Exploring Partnerships in Sport Event Delivery

Introduction When hosting a sport event, multiple stakeholders come into play throughout the organization and execution process. The success of the event requires organizers to work collaboratively with the stakeholders to achieve their common objectives. There has been increasing discussion among scholars that sport events, especially small-scaled sport events that are compatible with community capacity, can generate substantial economic and social benefits to the local community if properly leveraged (Gibson, Kaplanidou, & Kang, 2012; Taks, Chalip, & Green, 2015). The literature further points out that partnerships among stakeholders enable the effective leveraging of sport events and creat sustainable outcomes for the host community (O’Brien & Chalip, 2008; Ziakas & Boukas, 2014). Therefore, involving community partners is becoming increasingly necessary to sport event legacy delivery (MacKintoch, 2011). Given the lack of exploration on partnerships in small-scale sport events, the purpose of this study is to understand (a) what partnerships are being built to achieve the goals of local sport events, and (b) how the partnerships are being leveraged to create sustainable event outcomes for the local community.