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The Knowledge Bank is a collection of articles from a wide variety of professional and academic sources.

We welcome new contributions to the collection. Please contact us at info@playthegame.org with your suggestions and articles.

 


 

 

The Challenge for Europe in the Governance of Sport

09 April 2013

On 8 April 2013, Play the Game hosted a one-day seminar in Brussels titled 'the Challenge for Europe in the Governance of Sport'. The seminar marked the conclusion of the AGGIS project, and provided a platform to reveal the final...[more]

The seminar 'The Challenge for Europe in the Governance of Sport' was attended by more than 100 researchers, journalists, governance experts and sports leaders.


The London 2012 Olympics - a gender equality audit

03 April 2013

In this report from the Centre for Sport Policy Studies at the University of Toronto, Peter Donnelly and Michele K. Donnelly has analysed gender equality in sport using the case of the 2012 London Olympics. The specific focus of...[more]

New report has analysed the gender equality of the London Olympic Games and found that there is still some way to go. Photo: catfordCelt/Flickr


AGGIS: Existing governance principles in sport: a review of published litterature

22 January 2013

In this paper, Jean-Loup Chappelet and Michaël Mrkonjic examines the theme of "good" governance and present an overview of existing and published governance principles in sport.[more]



AGGIS: Limits to the autonomy of sport: EU law

11 January 2013

This paper by Arnout Geeraert seeks to provide a concise overview of the application of EU law on sporting rules as it delineates the boundaries of the autonomy of sport with regard to EU law. It also provides an overview of the...[more]



AGGIS: Implementation and compliance of good governance in International Sport Federations

11 January 2013

Part I: ImplementationIntroduction “Sports organizations and their members and events are often dependant on a mix of revenues including public and private subsidies. Therefore, it is in the clear interest of European tax...[more]



AGGIS: Transparency

11 January 2013

In this paper, Aline Bos and Frank van Eekeren adress the concept of transparency, by looking at its definition, its different approaches and ways of operationalizing it.[more]



AGGIS: Accountability and good governance

11 January 2013

One of the central elements of good governance is the existence of effective accountability processes. Yet, as with so many aspects of good governance, the concept is hard to define and even harder to operationalize. Of...[more]



AGGIS: Monitoring systems of good governance

11 January 2013

The aim of this first draft report on the role of monitoring and indicators, prepared by the research team from the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences is three-fold: To give a general theoretical overview of the...[more]



AGGIS: Stakeholders, stakeholding and good governance in international sport federations

11 January 2013

In this paper, professor Barrie Houlihan raises a number of fundamental questions about the application of stakeholder theory in the world of international sports organisations. Can stakeholders be properly defined, and are they...[more]



AGGIS principles of Good Governance in sport

10 January 2013

Three lists presenting Good Governance principles from three different senders; international governmental and non-governmental organisations, scholars and the sports organisations. The lists describe when specific Good...[more]



AGGIS: The ‘Social dialogue’ in European professional football

10 January 2013

Social dialogue in professional football is essentially about the credibility of the sports stakeholders and their capacity to self-regulate their activities in the name of the autonomy that they claim, argue the authors Michele...[more]

Photo: afroboot/Flickr


AGGIS: The governance network of European football: introducing new governance approaches to steer football at the EU level

10 January 2013

The authors of this article, Arnout Geeraert, Jeroen Scheerder and Hans Bruyninckx, aim at introducing a new approach in the academic debate on governance failures in professional football.[more]



AGGIS: The Olympic and Paralympic Games Through the Lens of the State's and the Public Interest in Sport

10 January 2013

This paper by Simona Kustec Lipicer discusses the implementation dilemmas of Slovenian sport policy through time.[more]



AGGIS: The Swiss Regulatory Framework and International Sports Organisations

10 January 2013

This paper is written by Michaël Mrkonjic, Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration, Switzerland, Lausanne, as a part of the AGGIS project. It gives an overview on the Swiss regulatory framework on fiscal and corruption...[more]



Playing by the rules: Financial fair play and the fight against corruption in sport

19 December 2012

Intervention by Jens Sejer Andersen, International Director, Play the Game & the Danish Institute for Sports Studies at a public hearing organized by the European Parliament, 18 December 2012.[more]

Jens Sejer Andersen speaking at the EU Parliament. Photo: Screenshot from http://www.europarl.europa.eu


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