In the course of the last decades planned events and festivals have been growing worldwide, and this upward trend is likely to continue in the future. This path, despite representing a relevant economic opportunity, may also be a threat for human development. Indeed, like any human activity, all events by their nature can have important consequences for the economic, social and environmental perspective, both in positive and negative terms. For this reason, event industry requires to be managed in a sustainable way, coherently with the current context which calls for a more sustainable development. The conducted research identifies a lack for what concerns studies focused on the events development stage, while, on the contrary, various models have been proposed with the purpose of measuring the event sustainability, thus adopting an ex-post perspective, taking into account all its potential impacts and adopting a common metric in order to achieve commensurability among the three different impact perspectives. Therefore, the aim of this thesis is to develop a reference framework to be used during the planning phase for an event. The proposed model represents an innovative assessment procedure to evaluate the event sustainability; in fact, it is based on several indicators, combined together and aggregated into a final index, which we called JUMP, that can measure the performance of each sustainability pillar and/or of the event as a whole. The index is fairly analytical and it allows to take into account various aspects that represent key factors in the event planning stage. In addition, the model is simple to be applied, since it is structured as a questionnaire to be submitted to those wishing to evaluate their planning process, and it is flexible enough in order to be adapted to the different characteristics that events may present. The World Manufacturing Forum Annual Meeting 2018 and the Balla coi Cinghiali Festival 2018, both held in Italy, were selected in order to test the proposed evaluation framework.
Negli ultimi decenni il numero di eventi e festival organizzati è cresciuto in tutto il Mondo, e questa tendenza è molto probabile continuerà in futuro. Questo percorso, nonostante rappresenti un’importante opportunità per lo sviluppo economico, potrebbe rivelarsi una minaccia per lo sviluppo umano. Infatti, come ogni attività umana tutti gli eventi per loro natura possono avere importanti conseguenze dal punto di vista economico, sociale ed ambientale, sia positive che negative. Per questo motivo, l’industria degli eventi necessita una gestione sostenibile, coerente con il contesto attuale che richiede uno sviluppo più sostenibile. La ricerca condotta identifica delle lacune per quanto riguardo studi focalizzati sulla fase di pianificazione degli eventi, mentre, al contrario, sono stati proposti diversi modelli allo scopo di misurarne la sostenibilità, adottando cioè una prospettiva a posteriori, prendendone in considerazione tutti i potenziali impatti e adottando una metrica comune che permetta di stabilire un rapporto tra le tre diverse prospettive di impatto. Pertanto, lo scopo di questa tesi è quello di sviluppare un modello di riferimento che possa essere utilizzato durante la fase di pianificazione di un evento. Il modello proposto rappresenta una procedura innovativa per la valutazione di sostenibilità degli eventi; si basa infatti su diversi indicatori, combinati e aggregati insieme in un indice finale, che abbiamo chiamato JUMP, in grado di misurare le prestazioni di ciascuno dei pilastri della sostenibilità e/o dell’evento nel suo complesso. L’indice è piuttosto analitico e consente di tenere in considerazione i vari aspetti che rappresentano dei fattori chiave in fase di pianificazione di un evento. Inoltre, il modello è semplice da applicare, dal momento che si presenta come un questionario da sottoporre a chi volesse valutare la propria pianificazione, ed è sufficientemente flessibile da adattarsi alle diverse caratteristiche che gli eventi possono presentare. Il World Manufacturing Forum Annual Meeting 2018 e il Festival Balla coi Cinghiali, entrambi tenutisi in Italia, sono stati selezionati per testare il modello che è stato proposto.
Development of a holistic framework to assess sustainable management of planned events
TRABATTONI, ELENA;ROMANISIO, MARCO
2017/2018
Abstract
In the course of the last decades planned events and festivals have been growing worldwide, and this upward trend is likely to continue in the future. This path, despite representing a relevant economic opportunity, may also be a threat for human development. Indeed, like any human activity, all events by their nature can have important consequences for the economic, social and environmental perspective, both in positive and negative terms. For this reason, event industry requires to be managed in a sustainable way, coherently with the current context which calls for a more sustainable development. The conducted research identifies a lack for what concerns studies focused on the events development stage, while, on the contrary, various models have been proposed with the purpose of measuring the event sustainability, thus adopting an ex-post perspective, taking into account all its potential impacts and adopting a common metric in order to achieve commensurability among the three different impact perspectives. Therefore, the aim of this thesis is to develop a reference framework to be used during the planning phase for an event. The proposed model represents an innovative assessment procedure to evaluate the event sustainability; in fact, it is based on several indicators, combined together and aggregated into a final index, which we called JUMP, that can measure the performance of each sustainability pillar and/or of the event as a whole. The index is fairly analytical and it allows to take into account various aspects that represent key factors in the event planning stage. In addition, the model is simple to be applied, since it is structured as a questionnaire to be submitted to those wishing to evaluate their planning process, and it is flexible enough in order to be adapted to the different characteristics that events may present. The World Manufacturing Forum Annual Meeting 2018 and the Balla coi Cinghiali Festival 2018, both held in Italy, were selected in order to test the proposed evaluation framework.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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