English is increasingly the dominant language of academic scholarship. This means that much research produced in other languages is overlooked, a tendency strengthened by the growing power of global publishers and university ranking systems. This initial scoping study provides an exploratory review of non-English scholarship in the field of event management, drawing on an extensive literature search in Arabic, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Slovenian and Spanish. We find a considerable number of event management publications in these languages, which effectively represent a ‘missing body of knowledge’ for scholars working in English. Only about 10% of these non-English sources are covered by Scopus, for example. Our scoping study indicates that this excludes many scholars and potentially interesting areas of work from the global event management corpus. We suggest several strategies which could be employed to address these issues.
Richards, GregCenson, DianineGračan, DanielaHaressy, MossaKiráľová, AlžbetaMarulc, ElenaRossetti, Giulia Barkiđija Sotošek, MarinaSterchel, Davide
Oxford School of Hospitality Management
Year of publication: 2022Date of RADAR deposit: 2022-10-11