Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction to the Events Management Theory and Methods Series -- Preface -- Editors and contributors -- 1 Theoretical Perspectives of Crisis Management and Recovery for Events -- Background: Understanding the concept of crisis for events -- Event crisis recovery and resilience planning -- Building resilience for events -- 2 Crisis: The Juncture of Stability and Development -- Crisis, back to normal -- Maturity model -- Standards level 4 -- Interview with Steven Wood Schmader, CFEE President & -- CEO International Festivals & -- Events Association (IFEA World) -- Practice Insight 1: -- 3 From Risk to Resilience: Contemporary Issues in Event Risk Management -- The perception of risk: Making sense of the risk management construct -- Decision-making under uncertainty -- The emergence of domestic terrorism threats -- Cyber-criminal risks and digital age of events -- 4 Stakeholder Management -- Classifying stakeholders and formulating appropriate strategies in a time of crisis -- Strategy and action -- Resilience and the roles of stakeholders -- Practice Insight 2: -- 5 Events Employment: Crises' impacts and resolutions -- Importance of event workforces -- Case Study #1 -- Case Study #2 -- Discussion and conclusions -- Practice Insight 3: -- 6 Redesigning Events in the Post COVID-19 Crisis: A design thinking approach -- Literature review -- Practice Insight 4: -- 7 The Future of Events will be Hybrid -- Virtual events -- Defining virtual and hybrid events -- COVID-19 and the pivot to online -- Benefits of virtual and hybrid events -- Designing virtual and hybrid event experiences -- Current trends of virtual and hybrid events -- The future of events will be hybrid -- Practice Insight 5: -- 8 Response and Recovery through Event Portfolio Management: A Case Study from Des Moines, Iowa.

Festivals and events in Des Moines -- Impact of COVID-19 on the Des Moines event industry -- The future of Des Moines events -- Practice Insight 6: -- 9 Swedish Sports Clubs and Events during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Impacts and responses -- Theoretical background: Crisis management and resilience -- Methodology -- Findings -- Practice Insight 7: -- 10 A Chronicle of Event Postponement and Reorganization: Coming Back Stronger -- Organizational context and case study approach -- Making the decision and rescheduling -- 11Agility in the Events Sector: A case study of a business event in Finland -- 2020: A crisis or a VUCA situation? -- Agility -- New technology and virtual events -- Case study: Overview of SHIFT festival -- Discussion and Conclusion -- 12 Crisis Management and Recovery for Events: Issues and Directions -- Stages in crisis management -- Issues and processes: A rounded crisis management framework for events -- Lessons from industry insights -- Trends and transformations -- Future research.