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Governance in Sport: A Scoping Review

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posted on 2023-08-30, 15:12 authored by Mathew Dowling, Becca Leopkey, Lee Smith
This article examines the current state of sport governance research within the field of sport management. In adopting Arksey and O’Malley’s (2005) framework, a scoping review was conducted involving a comprehensive search of all published literature between 1980 and 2016. The process involved searching four electronic databases and a manual search of sport management journals. The search identified (n=243) journal articles that examined sport governance related issues. Findings are presented as a frequency and thematic analysis. The frequency analysis reveals a notable increase in sport governance research in recent years with a large number of non-empirical studies focused on the not-for-profit sector. The thematic analysis draws upon and extends Henry and Lee’s (2004) three notions of governance and identifies sport governance-related topics, research contexts and social issues. Findings indicate that all three forms of governance (organizational, systemic, and political) have contributed to our understanding of sport governance but more empirical and theoretically driven research is needed.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

32

Issue number

5

Page range

438-451

Publication title

Journal of Sport Management

ISSN

1543-270X

Publisher

Human Kinetics

File version

  • Supplemental material

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2018-03-13

Legacy creation date

2018-03-13

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Science & Technology (until September 2018)

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Accepted author manuscript version reprinted, by permission, from Journal of Sport Management, 2018, 32(5): 438-451, https://doi.org/10.1123/jsm.2018-0032. © Human Kinetics, Inc.

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