Governance indicators in sport federations: good governance approach

Mehrabi, Ghasem; Sajjadi, Seyed Nasrollah; Jalali Farahani, Majid

doi:10.30473/fmss.2019.30752.1494

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

https://doi.org/10.30473/fmss.2019.30752.1494

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the evaluative indicators dedicated to managers' behavior for appropriate governance in sports federations. This research was carried out in quantitative & qualitative steps, C-OAR-SE Procedure used in order to design the questionnaire and identify indicators. In the first step, appropriate governance indicators were identified through review of literature as well as interview with 29 raters through which 114 indicators were identified. In the second step, 11 expert raters expressed their ideas about the content validity of the questionnaire with CVI & CVR and 9 indicators were removed in this step. The reliability of the questionnaire was confiremed by using Comunality test and then handed out among 305 raters and the stakeholders of 8 selected federations. SPSS and SMART-PLS(SEM) was used to analyze the data. According to the results of this study, extracted indicators were stood in eight dimentions: transparency and accountability, participation, rule-oriented, responsibility, fight against corruption, ethic principal, control and monitoring and effectiveness. They could pridicted 0.773 percent of managers' behavior for appropriate governance. Results showed that Transparency and accountability dimensions were the most important one (β=4.886) and ethic principal was the least important (β=2.966) in explanation of appropriate governance concept in sport federations.

Keywords

20.1001.1.25384023.1397.5.4.2.1

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Governance indicators in sport federations: good governance approach

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Volume 5, Issue 4 - Serial Number 4
March 2019
Pages 19-30

Governance indicators in sport federations: good governance approach

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Volume 5, Issue 4 - Serial Number 4March 2019Pages 19-30

Volume 5, Issue 4 - Serial Number 4
March 2019
Pages 19-30