The olympic games of Rio de Janeiro: project - related events and their political, aesthetical, economic and technological impacts on the main project actors

• Ano de defesa: 2017
• Autor(a) principal: Kentzingen, Raphael
• Orientador(a): Rego, Marcos Lopez
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Palavras-chave em Português: Megaprojetos; Jogos Olímpicos; Complexidade; Gestão de risco; Teoria do stakeholder; Teoria institucional
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Megaprojects; Olympic Games; Complexity; Risk management; Stakeholder theory; Institutional theory
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10438/18284

This study is concerned on Rio 2016 megaproject management undertaken by theprincipal project actors: The International Olympic Committee (IOC), the OrganisingCommittee of the Olympic Games (OCOG) and the Brazilian Government. Firstly, anintroduction into megaprojects precedes the explanation of two intrinsically linkedconcepts, Complexity and Risk Management. Only after that fundamental portrayal twowidely adopted theories in Megaproject research will be reviewed, namely Stakeholdertheory and Institutional theory. In light of the literature and by means of a content analysisto local and international newspapers articles, the main project related events thatoccurred shortly before, during and after the Olympic Games were extracted andcategorized. In total, twelve project related events were identified. The broader projectmanagement picture related to those issue is supported by a brief description of Rio 2016´s project governance. Finally, the paper finishes with the appeal to widen up theacademic research on the complexity of the Olympic Games as there is a lackingexplanatory and evaluative capability of the aforementioned theories in assessing the mainconceptual undertakings of such a particular megaproject. After all, the unexpected issuesthat the abovementioned actors had to manage are best described by four impactingmegaproject dimensions: The political impact, the aesthetic impact, the economic impactand the technological impact.