The purpose of this study was to examine post-sport event legacy governance. In order to address the research questions, a single-case embedded design focusing on the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Games was employed. Specifically, four sub-studies were built using archival materials and interviews. The first study employed the issues management literature to explore issues in post-sport event legacy governance in relation to polity, politics, and policy governance dimensions. The findings of this study identified ten issues across the three governance dimensions and highlighted the importance of understanding multi-dimensional governance systems in post-sport event legacy governance. Perceived differences in issues among stakeholders was also highlighted. The second study used the Resource-Based View to identify stakeholder’s post-sport event legacy strategies. In doing so, multiple types and attributes of post-sport event legacy resources as well as the resource management systems and practices emerged. The third study of this dissertation explored stakeholder management issues in the post-sport event legacy governance phase by analyzing conflict associated with the Jeongseon Alpine Centre. The study identified drivers, management, and impacts of stakeholder conflict within post-sport event legacy governance.
Lastly, an examination of the PyeongChang 2018 Legacy Foundation was completed to better understand how post-sport event legacies are governed by event stakeholders via a long-term legacy organization. Using the polity, policy, politics governance dimensions that are useful to explore the network mode of a governance system, it was determined that the PyeongChang legacy organization utilized a public-private governance mode. Based on the public-private governance system, the legacy organization served as a platform in which multiple public and private stakeholders collaborated to sustain legacies. This study also highlighted similarities and differences between the PyeongChang’s legacy and legacy organizations associated with the Vancouver 2010 and Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympic Games.
Overall, this dissertation extended our knowledge of sport event management, and more specifically sport event legacy. As a result, a number of theoretical and practical implications about the governance of legacy are proposed.
