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Simon GERARD

simon.gerard@ichec.be

Expertise

  • Inégalités sociales
  • Organization Theory
  • Sport management & Gouvernance

Teaching

  • 22XP072-A - Internship Thesis Combination
  • 22XP060-A - Mémoire
  • 21XP013-A - Mémoire
  • 22XP040-A - Mémoire en gestion de projet
  • 22XP052-A - Parcours stage et mémoire
  • 21XP022-A - Thesis
  • 22XP080-A - Thesis

Publications

  • Gérard, S., Brittain, I. & De Vita, G. (2024). Dis(abling) conceptions of disability sport: An analysis of institutional change in the Paralympic movement through the lens of boundary and practice work. Business History. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2023.2297788.
  • Duignan, M., Brittain, I., Hansen, M., Fyall, A., Gérard, S.,Page, S. (2023). Leveraging Accessible Tourism Development Through Mega-Events, and the ‘Disability-Attitude Gap’: A Focus on Physical Disability and Mobility-Related Challenges. Tourism Management. 99, 104766 . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2023.104766.
  • Marin Vandenbroucke, G., Gérard, S., May, A. (2021). The Impact of Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games on the visitor economy: a human rights perspective. In M., Duignan (Ed.), Managing Events, Festivals and the Visitor Economy: Concepts, Collaborations and Cases (pp. 145-160), Cab.
  • Gérard, S (2020). Paralympic Brand Governance: The Best of Both Worlds?. In D., Chatziefstathiou, B., Garcia, B., & Seguin, B. (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Olympic and Paralympic Studies (pp. 84-97). Routledge.
  • Brittain, I., Biscaia, R., Gérard, S. (2020). Ableism as a regulator of social practice and disabled people’s self-determination to participate in sport and physical activity. Leisure Studies. 39(2), pp. 209-224. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2019.1694569.
  • Gérard, S., Brittain, I., Jones, A., Thomas, G. (2020). The Impact of Austerity on the London 2012 Summer Olympics Participation Legacy from a Grassroots Sports Club Perspective: An Institutional Logics Approach. Leisure Studies. 39:5, 629-643 . DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2020.1776756.
  • Choluj, K., Gérard, S., & May, A. (2019). The Interdependence Between a Football Club and its Ultra-Fandom in Relation to ‘Modern’ Football: A Case Study of Legia Warsaw. Managing Sport and Leisure. Managing Sport & Leisure, 25(3), pp.64-78. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2019.1684836.
  • Bason, T., Salisbury, P., Gérard, S. (2019). FIFA. In S., Chadwick, D., Parnell, P., Widdop, & C., Anagnostopoulos, (eds), Routledge Handbook of Football Business and Management (pp. 423-440), Routledg.
  • Zintz, T., Winand, M., Gérard, S (2019). Gouvernance des Fédérations sportives : défis actuels dans une perspective internationale. internationale In M., Desbordes, P., Aymar, & C., Hautbois, (eds). Management global du sport (pp. 367-391). Amphora.
  • Zintz, T., Winand M.,Gérard, S. (2019). The Governance of Sports Federations: Current Challenges in an International Context. In M.,Desbordes, P., Aymar, & C., Hautbois, (eds), The Global Sport Economy: Contemporary Issues (pp. 274-294). Routledge.
  • Zintz, T., Gérard, S. (2019). Support the Implementation of Good Governance in Sport: a European Project for National Olympic Committees and National Sport Federations . M., Winand, & C., Anagnostopoulos (eds), Research Handbook on Sports Governance (pp. 53-71). Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Gérard, S., Legg, D., Zintz, T. (2019). The Governance of the Paralympic Movement: An Institutional Approach. In M., Winand & C. Anagnostopoulos (eds.). Research Handbook on Sports Governance (pp. 185-200). Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Gérard, S., & Zintz, T. (2017). The International Paralympic Committee as a change-marker? Insights from the institutional theory. International Academic Journal on Olympic Studies. Diagoras: International Academic Journal of Olympic Studies, 1(1), pp. 96-116, http://diagorasjournal.com/index.php/diagoras/article/view/9.
  • Gérard, S., Legg, D., Zintz, T. (2017). Multi-level analysis of institutional formation and change: The case of the Paralympic movement. Sport, Business and Management. Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal, 7(5), pp.515-541. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/SBM-10-2016-0068.
  • Gérard, S. (2017). Sport et loisirs, une histoire des origines à nos jours by Turcot Laurent (2016). DOI: https://journals.openedition.org/lectures/22004.
  • Gérard, S., Zintz, T. (2016). Shifting logic in the Paralympic Movement: towards an institutional explanation. Disability Sport: Why do we ‘dis’ people’s abilities, Coventry (United Kingdom), 27-29th June 2016.

Autres contributions intellectuelles

  • Gérard S., Brittain, I., Jones, A. (2020). L’influence des politiques d’austérité budgétaire sur l’héritage des Jeux Olympiques de Londres 2012 en termes de participation sportive : le point de vue des clubs sportifs amateurs en Angleterre. 1er Congrès de Société Savante de Management du Sport, Valenciennes (France), 11-12th June 2020.
  • May, A., Gérard, S., & Choluj, K. (2019). Ultra Fandom at Legia Warsaw: Against Modern Football?. International Sport Economics and Sport Management Conference, Berlin (Germany), 16-18th May 2019.
  • Gérard, S. (2018). The creation of new organizational forms and the interplay between boundary work and practice work: A processual analysis. FBL Research Event, Coventry University (United Kingdom), 13th September 2018.
  • Gérard, S. (2018). From disability-based to sport-based organisations: boundaries and practices at play during institutional change processes. Disability Sport: What will its legacy be?, Coventry University (United Kingdom), 2-5th September 2018.
  • Gérard, S., Brittain, I., & Zintz, T. (2018). Institutional Work and new Organizational forms: the case of the early development of the Paralympic Movement. European Academy of Management, Reykjavik (Iceland), 20-23rd July, 2018.
  • Gérard, S., & Zintz, T. (2016). Multi-level Analysis of Institutional Formation and Change: The Case of the Paralympic Movement. European Academy of Management, Paris (France), 1-4th July, 2016 (Best Paper Runner Up in SIG Sport Management).
  • Gérard, S., Zintz, T. (2015). What Causal mechanisms contribute to or constraint the inclusion of Paralympic Sport in the mainstream ‘’able-bodied’’ Sport Movement?. 31st European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, Athens (Greece), 2-4th July 2015.
  • Gérard, S. & Zintz, T. (2015). Les trajectoires institutionnelles des sports paralympiques : logiques récurrentes ou différenciées ?. 8ème Congrès International de la Société de Sociologie du Sport de Langue Française, Montpellier (France), 3-5th June 2015.
  • Gérard, S., Zintz, T. (2014). The inclusive management of Paralympic Sports . Conference on “Disability Sport: Changing lives, changing perceptions?”, Coventry (United Kingdom), 15-17th September 2014.
  • Gérard, S., Zintz, T. (2014). The inclusion of Paralympic Sports: from a managerial perspective. 22nd European Association for Sport Management (EASM) Conference, Coventry (United Kingdom), 9-12th September 2014.
  • Gérard, S., Zintz, T. (2014). The inclusion of Paralympic Sports: a managerial perspective. European Association for Sociology of Sport (EASS) Conference. Utrecht (Netherlands), 7-10th May 2014.
  • Gérard, S., Zintz, T. (2013). Splitted Sports: toward a better inclusion of Athletes with a disability. 1st SPLISS Conference. Antwerp (Belgium), 13-14th November 2013.