The Olympic Games of Rio de Janeiro

: project : related events and their political, aesthetical, economic and tecnological impacts on the main project actors

Abstract

This study is concerned on Rio 2016 megaproject management undertaken by the principal project actors: The International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (OCOG) and the Brazilian Government. Firstly, an introduction into megaprojects precedes the explanation of two intrinsically linked concepts, Complexity and Risk Management. Only after that fundamental portrayal two widely adopted theories in Megaproject research will be reviewed, namely Stakeholder theory and Institutional theory.
In light of the literature and by means of a content analysis to local and international newspapers articles, the main project related events that occurred shortly before, during and after the Olympic Games were extracted and categorized. In total, twelve project related events were identified. The broader project management 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 the academic research on the complexity of the Olympic Games as there is a lacking explanatory and evaluative capability of the
aforementioned theories in assessing the main conceptual undertakings of such a particular megaproject. After all, the unexpected issues that the bovementioned actors had to manage are best described by four impacting megaproject dimensions: The political impact, the aesthetic impact, the economic impact and the technological impact.

Date of Award	11 Apr 2017
Original language	English
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Marcos Lopez (Supervisor)