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Organizing committees are outsourcing entities, meaning that they need others (stakeholders) to do most of the work regarding the preparation for an Olympic Games while they focus on Games-time associated tasks as well as coordinating all stakeholders’ efforts. The Olympic Games is a complex undertaking requiring a high variety and amount of resources, as well as a variety of stakeholders to bid for, plan and host the Games. Stakeholders are all those individuals, groups and/or organizations that influence or are influenced by the actions of the focal organization (Freeman, 1984), here the bid/organizing committee.
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Parent, M.M. (2013). Olympic Games Stakeholder Governance and Management. In: Frawley, S., Adair, D. (eds) Managing the Olympics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230389588_2
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