ACADEMIC EVENTS: AN EMPIRICALLY-GROUNDED TYPOLOGY AND THEIR ACADEMIC IMPACT

Hansen, TT; Pedersen, DB; Foley, C

ACADEMIC EVENTS: AN EMPIRICALLY-GROUNDED TYPOLOGY AND THEIR ACADEMIC IMPACT

Hansen, TT Pedersen, DB Foley, C

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Publisher:: Cognizant, LLC
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Event Management, 2020
Issue Date:: 2020

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Hansen, TT	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Pedersen, DB	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Foley, C https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8851-9119	en_US
dc.date.issued	2020	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Event Management, 2020	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1525-9951	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/139111
dc.description.abstract	<jats:p> The meetings industry, government bodies, and scholars within tourism studies have identified the need to understand the broader impact of business events. To succeed in this endeavour, we consider it necessary to develop analytical frameworks that are sensitive to the particularities of the analysed event, sector and stakeholder group. In this paper, we focus on the academic sector and offer two connected analyses. Firstly, an empirically-grounded typology of academic events. We identify four differentiating dimensions of academic events: size, academic focus, participants and tradition and based on these dimensions we develop a typology of academic events that includes: congress, specialty conference, symposium and practitioners’ meeting. Secondly, we outline the academic impact of attending these four types of events. For this purpose, the concept of credibility cycles is used as an analytical framework for examining academic impact. We suggest that academic events should be conceptualized and evaluated as open marketplaces that facilitate conversion of credibility. Data was obtained from interviews with 22 researchers at three Danish universities. The study concludes that there are significant differences between the events in terms of their academic impact. Moreover, the outcome for the individual scholar depends on the investment being made. Finally, the study calls for a future research agenda on beyond tourism benefits based on interdisciplinary collaborations. </jats:p>	en_US
dc.language	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Cognizant, LLC	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Event Management	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.3727/152599519x15506259856598	en_US
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subject.classification	Sport, Leisure & Tourism	en_US
dc.title	ACADEMIC EVENTS: AN EMPIRICALLY-GROUNDED TYPOLOGY AND THEIR ACADEMIC IMPACT	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.for	1503 Business and Management	en_US
utslib.for	1504 Commercial Services	en_US
utslib.for	1506 Tourism	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business/Management Discipline
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pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US

Abstract:

The meetings industry, government bodies, and scholars within tourism studies have identified the need to understand the broader impact of business events. To succeed in this endeavour, we consider it necessary to develop analytical frameworks that are sensitive to the particularities of the analysed event, sector and stakeholder group. In this paper, we focus on the academic sector and offer two connected analyses. Firstly, an empirically-grounded typology of academic events. We identify four differentiating dimensions of academic events: size, academic focus, participants and tradition and based on these dimensions we develop a typology of academic events that includes: congress, specialty conference, symposium and practitioners’ meeting. Secondly, we outline the academic impact of attending these four types of events. For this purpose, the concept of credibility cycles is used as an analytical framework for examining academic impact. We suggest that academic events should be conceptualized and evaluated as open marketplaces that facilitate conversion of credibility. Data was obtained from interviews with 22 researchers at three Danish universities. The study concludes that there are significant differences between the events in terms of their academic impact. Moreover, the outcome for the individual scholar depends on the investment being made. Finally, the study calls for a future research agenda on beyond tourism benefits based on interdisciplinary collaborations.

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