2014
DOI: 10.3727/152599514x13883555341887
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Business Events and Friendship: Leveraging the Sociable Legacies

Abstract: Business events are celebrated for their contributions to community and industry. They are understood to be shared social contexts in which people meet to advance knowledge, sell products, and network. Less celebrated and, arguably, less understood is that business events provide a context for the development of friendships. In 2011 an online survey was conducted with the delegates of five international business events held in Sydney, Australia in the period 2009–2011. The survey was designed to investigate b… Show more

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“…In an overview of the nexus of leisure and event studies, Patterson and Getz (2013) discuss the concept of liminality, which is described as a state of social limbo during which participants play with elements of culture, and note that events can be defined as liminoid experiences. In a study of the sociable legacies of business events, Foley et al (2014) recognize that people are drawn to events by the expectation that they are going to have some fun. They draw on play theory (Huizinga, 1980;Simmel, 1964;Wearing, 1998) and play's associations with social bonds and creativity to elucidate their findings that business events spark both friendships and innovation.…”
Section: Modernitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In an overview of the nexus of leisure and event studies, Patterson and Getz (2013) discuss the concept of liminality, which is described as a state of social limbo during which participants play with elements of culture, and note that events can be defined as liminoid experiences. In a study of the sociable legacies of business events, Foley et al (2014) recognize that people are drawn to events by the expectation that they are going to have some fun. They draw on play theory (Huizinga, 1980;Simmel, 1964;Wearing, 1998) and play's associations with social bonds and creativity to elucidate their findings that business events spark both friendships and innovation.…”
Section: Modernitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Much of the research suggests that the social aspects of an event experience remain the most important motivation for many attendees (Dodd, Yuan, Adams, & Kolysnikova, 2006;Nicholson & Pearce, 2001). Even within business events the friendships formed have been found to be one of the most important legacies of attendance (Foley, Edwards, & Schlenker, 2014). Crompton and McKay's (1997) early research found that meeting new people and socializing with friends and family were key motivators to event attendance.…”
Section: Understanding the Personal Benefits Of Participatory Eventsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…They emphasise how the innovation process is characterised by social complex interactions of knowledge sharing across individuals and organisations, and the entrepreneurial activity is the capacity to seize where events take place are important in facilitating these knowledge ecosystems as they provide the setting for socialisation, (Fjelstul et al, 2009) engender the required trust and therefore coalesces collaborators. In this context the expedient role of playful settings encourages a more casual and creative environment within which the desired relationships can be built (Foley et al, 2014).…”
Section: Events As Opportunities For Innovation and Entrepreneurshipmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Socialisation and trust, and the creation of a shared social reality, underpin the potential for entrepreneurial outcomes through events (Foley at al., 2014). In this inherently sociable space people, have the potential to be, detached from their own personal and social constraints, finding themselves in an artificial environment of temporary equality which enables a freedom to experiment and engage in creativity (Simmel, 1964).…”
Section: Designing Opportunities For Social Bondingmentioning
confidence: 99%
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