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Sport Governance and Policy
... of Canadian sport policy over the past decade, Chinese football policy reform, an analysis of community sport and health policy and programmes in the UK, policy regarding transgender athletes in the US, and a conceptual paper on the understanding of good governance in sport. Key theoretical frameworks/concepts employed include Kingdom’s Multiple Streams Approach for policy analysis, policy implementation, figurational sociology, and the multiple governance framework. The following discussion provides ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... governance in terms of how governance convergence occurs in the context of sport. They adapt Jamali and Neville’s (2011) institutional framework and add a new element - governance convergence – to examine the drivers and barriers of the adoption of good governance principles in Indian sport. Another study led by McLeod and his colleagues (2021) articulate the roles of board directors of Scottish football clubs. Although the roles of sports boards have been a focused research area in early sport governance ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... policies and discourses had influenced the day-to-day work of local sport managers, they continued to focus on the building of good sport facility infrastructure. Wicker, P., Feiler, S., & Breuer, C. (2022). Board gender diversity, critical masses, and ... ... financial problems can be significantly reduced by gender diversity on boards. Kelly, S., Derringtonm S., & Star, S., (2022). Governance challenges in esports: a best practice framework for addressing integrity and wellbeing issues, International Journal ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... a significant degree of first-hand knowledge and experience with doping cases and anti-doping polices which could be put to good use to help prevent doping violations. Sports Integrity Agencies Demands for overarching sports integrity agencies to oversee ... ... complexities of designing national sports integrity systems (NSIS) where there are so many differences in the way sports are governed and managed in each country. The author takes on the daunting task of presenting a conceptual framework of an NSIS that ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... uncover the racially charged language directed toward these athletes. Three salient, interrelated themes were discovered: (1) good Aggie versus bad Aggie dichotomy, (2) dumb/misguided, and (3) thug. Feddersen, N. B., Morris, R., Storm, L. K., Littlewood,... ... Theory. Data collection included ethnography and focus group discussion (n=10) with athletes, coaches, parents, and the national governing body. The core concept found was power relations further divided into systemic power and informational power. Systemic ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... their human rights obligations; ii) a recognition that MSEs can be leveraged as a vehicle to promote human rights; iii) the emergence of a more balanced and constructive relationship between MSE award bodies and advocacy groups; iv) implementation of good governance and structural change. Event manipulation Tanking, or the deliberate underperformance by a team or individual, usually with a view to obtaining longer term competitive advantage, such as a better draft preference, has been a specific topic ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... Drawing on archival data the authors outline the evolution of disability sport policy, highlighting key initiatives of government sport agencies from 1937 to the contemporary disability sport policy landscape. They identify the diffusion of power between government agencies and national sports organisations as a notable problem for inclusive disability sports policy and practices. They conclude that attitudes which they characterise as ‘enlightened ableism’, whereby intentions are often good but are not matched by effective action, serve to continue to marginalise athletes with disabilities from effective participation in sport. Mueller, L. (2022). ‘Do Americans Really Support Black Athletes Who Kneel During the National Anthem? Estimating ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... findings highlighted the existence of both gender-segregated and seemingly gender-neutral discourses, along with notions of "good parenting" that suggest purchasing these items reflects parenting values. The study concluded that to promote gender ... ... Zembura, P. (2024). ‘Athletes’ participation in the National Anti-Doping Organisations of Germany and Poland: democratic governance?’. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 16(1), 93–115. https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2024.2306331 ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... While this study provides limited new theoretical insights about accountability, it does however, illustrate the problem with governing bodies’ poor implementation of sanctions, which contributes to crime syndicates continuance to engage in match-fixing.... ... reactions). Last, users were overall critical of the University and its crisis management approach. This case analysis also is a good teaching case for studying image repair. Milford, M. (2021). Full contact: Sexual assault, combat sports, and the myth of ...
Sport Leadership
... Exploring administrative and governance hierarchies, Piggot et al. (2021) examined gender power relations within the national governing body context of England Golf and the Lawn Tennis Association. The authors begin by noting the documented gender imbalance ... ... qualified. However, the findings also noted a lack of clarity about merit (i.e., what is specifically is being considered as good or qualified) which could serve as an exclusionary tool. Second, discourse of neoliberalism relates to the perceived curtailment ...
Sport Leadership
... legislation (USA), the Commonwealth Games (Australia), international rugby union, the National Football League (USA), national governing bodies (USA), national sport federations (Poland), and interuniversity athletic departments (Canada). In the following ... ... relationships to help understand the complexity and nuances of a head coach’s positioning within the system. The study also provided good examples of how the head coach must navigate this environment and strategically manage nuanced relationships with and between ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... whistleblowers were censored. Using structural constraints provides an important extension of our understanding of the failures of sport governance that can influence sports match fixing. Schyvinck, C., Babiak, K., Constandt, B., & Willem, A. (2021). What does entrepreneurship ... ... findings showed racial discourse included using dehumanizing language including a dichotomy where white athletes were depicted as Good/true and Black athletes were deemed Bad, and Black activist athletes were perceived as unintelligent and labeled “thugs”....
Sport Leadership
... qualitative interviews involving personnel from two SDP collaboratives under a larger SDP umbrella foundation, the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation. Through an inductive coding process for data analysis, Kang and Svensson (2023a) identified four antecedents ... ... insights to sport leadership, such as the work done by O’Boyle and colleagues (2023). In countries such as Australia where sport governing boards are common and influential, it is paramount to continue to explore how members of these boards view, enact, and ...
Sport Economics Research: New Perspectives on the Demand for Sport
... including Private Equity (PE) funders and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), which invests funds on behalf of the Government of Saudi Arabia. The NFL and NBA, for example historically had only allowed individuals to own shares in teams, have ... ... differences between domestic- and foreign-owned clubs. 2. Berkowitz, J.P., and Rotthoff, K.W. (2023). Real Options Applied to Consumer Goods: Maximizing Profits and Fan Welfare. Journal of Sports Economics. 24 (2) 139-158. Abstract: The use of pre-sale options ...