Event management literature: exploring the missing body of knowledge

English is increasingly the dominant language of academic scholarship. This means that much research produced in other languages overlooked, a tendency strengthened by growing power global publishers and university ranking systems. initial scoping study provides an exploratory review non-English scholarship field event management, drawing on extensive literature search Arabic, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Slovenian Spanish. We find considerable number management publications these languages, which effectively represent ‘missing body knowledge’ for scholars working English. Only about 10% sources are covered Scopus, example. Our indicates this excludes many potentially interesting areas work from corpus. suggest several strategies could be employed to address issues.