ABSTRACT

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.

摘要

英语越来越成为学术学术的主要语言。这意味着以其他语言制作的许多研究被忽视了，全球出版商和大学排名系统的力量不断增强，这一趋势得到了加强。这项初步的范围界定研究利用对阿拉伯语、克罗地亚语、捷克语、荷兰语、意大利语、葡萄牙语、斯洛文尼亚语和西班牙语的广泛文献检索，对事件管理领域的非英语奖学金进行了探索性审查。我们发现大量使用这些语言的事件管理出版物，它们有效地代表了以英语工作的学者的“缺失的知识体系”。例如，Scopus 涵盖了这些非英语资源中的大约 10%。我们的范围研究表明，这将许多学者和可能感兴趣的工作领域排除在全球事件管理语料库之外。我们提出了几种可以用来解决这些问题的策略。