Dr Danny O'Brien

 

Dip Teaching, B Arts, PhD

Senior Lecturer, Griffith Business School

Contact details for Dr Danny O'Brien

Research expertise 

• Leveraging sport events for sustainable benefits in host communities
• Surf tourism and sustainable development in host communities
• Managing organisational and strategic change in sport

Current teaching areas

• Strategic management and organisational change
• Sport event management

Publications

Refereed journal articles

Filo, K., Funk, D., & O’Brien, D. (2008). It’s really not about the bike: Exploring attraction and attachment to the events of the Lance Armstrong Foundation. Journal of Sport Management, 22(5), In Press.

O’Brien, D. & Chalip, L. (2007). Executive training exercise in sport event leverage. International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, 1(4), 296-304.

O’Brien, D. (2007). Points of leverage: Maximizing host community benefit from a regional surfing festival. European Sport Management Quarterly, 7(2), 141-165.

O’Brien, D. & Gardiner, S. (2006). Creating sustainable mega event impacts: Networking and relationship development through pre-event training. Sport Management Review, 9(1), 25-47.

O’Brien, D. (2006). Strategic business leveraging and the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Annals of Tourism Research, 33(1) pp. 240-261.

Merrilees, B., Getz, D., & O’Brien, D. (2005). Marketing stakeholder analysis: Branding the Brisbane Goodwill Games. European Journal of Marketing, 39, 1060-1077.

O’Brien, D. and Slack, T. (2004). The emergence of a professional logic in English rugby union: The role of isomorphic and diffusion processes. Journal of Sport Management, 18(1), 13-39.

O’Brien, D. and Slack, T. (2003). An analysis of change in an organizational field: The professionalization of English rugby union. Journal of Sport Management, 17(4), 417-448.

Book chapters

O’Brien, D. & Chalip, L. (2007). Sport events and strategic leveraging: pushing towards the triple bottom line. In, A. Woodside & D. Martin (eds.), Advancing Tourism Management. CABI Publishing, Cambridge, MA (pp. 318-338).

O’Brien, D. (2005). Leveraging hallmark sport events for long-term business impacts: The case of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre. Gold Coast, Queensland. ISBN: 1 920704 28 0.

Dickson, G., O'Brien, D., & Cousens, L. (2005). Warming the bench: Pacific Island Rugby and entry into an expanded SANZAR competition. In, R. Hess, B. Stewart, & M. Nicholson (Eds.), Football Fever: Crossing Boundaries (pp. 63-71). Melbourne, Maribyrnong Press.

Amis, J., & O’Brien, D. (2005). Organizational theory and the study of sport. In, B. Parkhouse (Ed.) The Management of Sport: Its Foundations and Applications (4th Edition). London: McGraw-Hill (pp. 76-95)..

O'Brien, D. & Slack, T. (2004). Strategic responses to institutional pressures for commercialisation: Case study of a senior English rugby union club. In T. Slack (Ed.), The Commercialisation of Sport, London, UK: Frank Cass (pp. 117-145).

Parent, M. & O’Brien, D. (2003). Organisation theory and sport management. In, L. Trenberth (Ed.), The business and management of contemporary sport, Palmerston North: Dunmore Press (pp. 81-100).

Parent, M., O’Brien, D., & Slack, T. (2003). Strategic management in the context of sport. In, L. Trenberth (Ed.), The business and management of contemporary sport, Palmerston North: Dunmore Press (pp. 101-122).

Amis, J., & O’Brien, D. (2002). Organizational theory and the study of sport. In, B. Parkhouse (Ed.) The Management of Sport: Its Foundations and Applications (3rd Edition). London: McGraw-Hill (pp. 70-92).

Refereed conference papers

Filo, K., Funk, D.C., & O’Brien, D. (2008). The influence of social responsibility on sport tourists. In Richardson, S., Fredline, L., Patiar, A., & Ternel, M. (Ed.), Proceedings from the 2008 Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education Conference. Gold Coast, Queensland. (CAUTHE 2008: Where the Bloody Hell Are We? CD-ROM, 2008 Release)

Filo, K.F., Funk, D.C., and O'Brien, D. (2007). The Influence of Charity on Motivation for Participation in Sport Events.  Presented at Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 29 November – 1 December, 2007.

O’Brien, D. & Chalip, L. (2007). Sustainability and Sport Events: Exploring Synergies Between Economic and Social Leverage. Presented at the European Association for Sport Management Annual Conference, Turin, Italy, 12-15 September, 2007.

O’Brien, D. & Chalip, L. (2007). Sport Events and Strategic Leveraging: Pushing towards the Triple Bottom Line. Presented at the 5th Bi-Annual Symposium of Consumer Psychology of Tourism, Hospitality, and Leisure, Charleston, North Carolina, USA, 4-6 June, 2007.

O’Brien, D. & Chalip, L. (2007). Managing Learning Exercise and Trainer’s Note for Sport Event Leverage. Presented at the 5th Bi-Annual Symposium of Consumer Psychology of Tourism, Hospitality, and Leisure, Charleston, North Carolina, USA, 4-6 June, 2007.

Filo, K., Funk, D., & O’Brien, D. (2007). An Examination of Motivation for Participation in Charity Sport Events. Proceedings from the 2007 Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education Conference. Sydney, NSW, Australia, 11-14 February, 2007.  (CAUTHE 2007: Tourism – Past Achievements, Future Challenges, CD-ROM, 2007 release).

O’Brien, D. & Harrison-Hill, T. (2005). Leveraging a Regional Event for Host Community Benefit: The 2004 Noosa Festival of Surfing. Presented at the North American Society for Sport Management Annual Conference, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, June 1-4 2005.

O’Brien, D., Dickson, G., & Cousens, L. (2004). Analysing the sport-media nexus in North American and Australian professional sport leagues: An organisational field approach. Presented at the 10th Anniversary Conference of the Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, 24-27 November 2004.

Dickson, G., Cousens, L. & O'Brien, D. (2004). An investigation of change in the fields encompassing elite rugby union: A case study of southern hemisphere rugby. Football Fever Conference, Victoria University, Melbourne, September 2004.

Cousens, L., Dickson, G., & O'Brien, D. (2004). Beyond boundaries: A comparative investigation of change in the fields encompassing North American and Australian professional sport organizations. Presented at the North American Society for Sport Management Annual Conference, May 2004.

Harrison-Hill, T. & O’Brien D. (2003). Regional sport events: Investigating the potential for sport, tourism and economic development through stakeholder relationships. Presented at the 9th Annual Conference of the Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand, University of Otago, New Zealand, 27-29 November, 2003.

Recent research grants

O'Brien, D. and Harrison-Hill, T. (2003). The new paradigm of marquee sport events and business leveraging: The 2003 Rugby World Cup experience. 2003 Faculty of Commerce and Management Research Grant ($3000).

Harrison-Hill, T. and O'Brien, D. (2003). Regional sport events: Investigating the potential for sport, tourism and economic development through stakeholder relationships. 2003 Faculty of Commerce and Management Research Grant ($3000).

Merrilees, B., Getz, D., and O'Brien, D. (2001). Local branding and stakeholder management of the Goodwill Games. Griffith University, School of Marketing and Management Research Grant, $3000.

O'Brien, D. (2000). Leveraging hallmark sport events for long-term business impacts: The case of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism ($3000).

Chalip, L., Green, B.C., Zakus, D., O'Brien, D., and Harrison-Hill, T. (2000). Event research: International networking. Research support scheme, PVC Business, Griffith University, $5000.