Assessing international sport federations governance

Jean-Loup Chappelet and Mickaël Terrien

Chapter 2 in Sport Management in Europe, 2025, pp 9-24 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The first indicator-based governance assessment tool for international sport organizations — the Basic Indicators for Better Governance in International Sport (BIBGIS) — was published in 2013. Other such tools quickly followed. This chapter draws on documents published by their underlying research projects to provide brief summaries of the main sport federation governance assessment tools currently available, and a more comprehensive description of the tool developed by the Association of Summer Olympic International Sport Federations’ (ASOIF) Governance Task Force (GTF). It then presents the main criticisms of indicator-based governance assessment methods and, without referring to a theory of governance (none is widely accepted), provides constructive suggestions for improving these tools, especially the GTF. Despite their limitations, reviews carried out using these tools encourage sport federations to improve their governance. However, improved governance does not necessarily lead to improved performance, so governance assessments should not be confused with performance assessments.

Keywords: Governance principles; Indicators; Assessment tools; ASOIF GTF; Sport autonomy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035333134
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