Purpose

This paper explores event value from the perspective of policy stakeholders and discusses potential implications of this stakeholder group's perceptions of value on event policy, event evaluation and the public discourse on the value of events.

Design/methodology/approach

A thematic analysis is employed to analyze nine interviews from respondents who were deemed to fit the study criteria in the case of Östersund, Sweden.

Findings

Findings indicate that value is portrayed in largely economic terms or in proxy-economic terms even though the respondents expressed awareness and concern for social aspects of value. Moreover, the article highlights the glaring omission of the relationship between policy stakeholders and the nature of evaluation efforts in the industry and academia.

Originality/value

The article addresses a still somewhat unexplored dynamics between influential policy stakeholders and how events are regarded in terms of their potential contribution to community development. To what degree does the way the events sector and the general public value events emanate from the way events have been instrumentalized in policy throughout history?

中文翻译：

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维持现状：政策利益相关者对事件价值感知的性质和作用

目的

本文从政策利益相关者的角度探讨事件价值，并讨论该利益相关者群体的价值感知对事件政策、事件评估和事件价值的公共话语的潜在影响。

设计/方法/方法

采用主题分析来分析来自被认为符合瑞典厄斯特松德案例研究标准的受访者的九次访谈。

发现

调查结果表明，尽管受访者表达了对价值的社会方面的认识和关注，但价值主要是用经济术语或代理经济术语来描述的。此外，文章强调了政策利益相关者之间关系的明显遗漏以及行业和学术界评估工作的性质。

原创性/价值

这篇文章讨论了有影响力的政策利益相关者之间仍然有些未探索的动态，以及如何根据事件对社区发展的潜在贡献来看待这些事件。事件部门和公众价值事件的方式在多大程度上源于历史上事件在政策中的工具化方式？