ABSTRACT
Sport governance forms part of the broader sport management landscape. By definition sport management covers a wide array of subject areas, ranging from management, human resource management, marketing, Sport sociology, sport history, finance, sport and the law, data analytics, information systems and, naturally, the study of the sport industry and its component parts through which the management of people and organisations is executed. Governance practices were largely an afterthought in these changing times until commercial pressures and the need for heightened accountability began to emerge as important for the ongoing survival and legitimacy of sport organisations. The research team classified 74 articles as organisational governance, 49 as political governance and 120 as systemic governance providing insight into the range and scope of work published across all sources. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
