...Eliza Bodor-Eranus; Eszter Vit; Ákos Bocskor Purpose This study aims to understand the motivations of volunteers at music festivals, as event volunteering is becoming increasingly popular. By identifying different motivational clusters, the research provides insights that can help event organizers...

... inclusion to gender minority members in the context of music festivals. In doing so, we added knowledge of attitudes and practices that reduce and endanger feelings of access, participation and empowerment. These kinds of experiences lead easily to social exclusion, which, in turn, negatively impacts well...

...Nur Balqish Hassan; Noor Hazarina Hashim Purpose This is amongst the first works to develop a technographic segmentation of smartphone users attending music festivals based on attitudes, motivations and usage patterns. We also aim to describe festivalgoers’ characteristics. Design/methodology...

... and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Music festivals Covid-19 Sharing...

...Amélia Brandão; Mahesh Gadekar Purpose This study aims to examines how renaming music festivals with brand names affect festivalgoers' purchase intention in a Southwestern European country. Design/methodology/approach This study uses 291 festivalgoers' responses attending five music festivals...

...Adrian Bossey Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider perceptions of sustainability, information communication technologies (ICTs)-enhanced performances, authenticity, COVID-19 and performance futures in relation to digital content for use on-site and off-site at music festivals/events...

...Karla Gabriela Alvarado Purpose This investigation aims to critically assess accessibility for persons with disabilities (PWDs) at music festivals in the UK. Design/methodology/approach A systematic review of the literature was conducted, followed by a case study focused on analysing...

...João Pedro Portugal; Antonia Correia; Paulo Águas Purpose Music festivals offer new opportunities for leisure and tourist experiences in Portugal. Some tourists and residents, the so-called festival goers, participate and come back to these events, whereas others, the non-goers, never participate...

...Annamarie D. Sisson Purpose The relationship between leadership style and employee outcomes is well established. However, organizational management research lacks an understanding of the dyadic relationship between supervisors and employees and volunteers at music festivals. This study examines...

...Maarit Kinnunen; Antti Honkanen; Mervi Luonila Purpose The purpose of the study is to compare features of career development and fandom in frequent festival attendance in the context of Finnish music festivals. Design/methodology/approach The study uses a mixed methods research approach...

...Dominique Hazel; Courtney Mason Purpose The purpose of this paper is to increase understandings of the complexity of stakeholder relationships and their impact on environmental practices in music festivals in Western Canada, but also to highlight how managers can leverage their festival platform...

...Maria Gorete Dinis; Celeste Eusébio; Zélia Breda Purpose This paper aims to present a framework to analyse whether information published on social media is accessible for people with disabilities (PwD), namely, visual and hearing disabilities, with an application to a music festival. Design...

...-creation, with a focus on sustainable festivals. Second, data rooted research based on grounded theory is conducted, using 12 semi-structured interviews with music festival attendees. Findings Three distinct festival attendee categories were identified: the sustainable co-creation type, the calculating...

... a sub-category of motivation studies, music festivals, in order to see if this approach can elicit a consistent set of motivation dimensions for the sub-category, which can in turn be compared and contrasted with the broader literature. A new case study of motivations to attend the 28th Macau...

... of research on events and festivals management by applying this new model to events and festivals. Design/methodology/approach – The study uses a case study methodology with a multi-method approach to analyze the use of social media at three major music festivals. Case studies offer depth...