Search Results - "2008 Olympics"
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The Impact Of 2008 Olympics On China's Economic Development
Published 2008“…The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games is not only a great event in China's history,but also the one hosted by a developingcountry for the first time.…”
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Economic impact of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
Published 2009“…It has been one year since Beijing successfully hosts the 2008 Olympic Games. It needs to stress the economic impacts of the city as the Olympic effect could boost economy of Beijing a long and lasting growth. …”
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Risk Management of Major Sporting Events: Implications for the 2008 Olympics
Published 2006“…Case study of Athens 2004 Olympics aims at analyzing risk management experience from the previous sporting events, and the purpose of two interviews and telephone consultations is to get primary data about risk management efforts of Beijing 2008 Olympics. Despite of many efforts have done by BOCOG, some potential problems could not be ignored. …”
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Temporal change in resident perceptions of a mega-event: The Beijing 2008 olympic games
Published 2011“…Abstract This study investigated the influences of temporal effects on local residents' impact perceptions of hosting the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, utilizing data collected during the first week of the games and after the games from local residents of Beijing. …”
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Representation of olympic athletes in a Malaysian online newspaper / Wardah Hajisama
Published 2012“…The purpose of this study is to investigate how genders are represented in selected sports news during the 2008 Olympics. The sports news of the 2008 Olympics from The Star online newspaper were selected as the corpus of the study, focusing on reports of selected female-appropraite sports. …”
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Competing for global attention: a case study into how a collective of largely unknown activist groups managed to shift the focus from one of the biggest international events to a m...
Published 2009“…The Free Tibet Movement's Olympic Campaign provides an insightful example of how an until recently largely unknown collective of activist groups managed to seriously overshadow the lead up to the 2008 Olympic Games, effectively damaging one of the best known global brands. …”
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