ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the framework that follows a multi-level view of governance encompassing the individual level, the board level, the organisation level and the broader system level of sport organisation interactions. The idea of a multi-level conceptual model to embody leadership and governance research in sport management is a notion offered by J. W. Welty Peachey, Z. J. Damon, Y. Zhou and L. J. Burton to map leadership scholarship. The notion of organisational governance has come to be associated with studies that focus on individual directors, the board grouping as well as the individual sport organisation. The drive to view the study of governance as something beyond the confines of an individual organisation boundary or board group setting has seemingly fuelled arguments to adapt a more expansive approach to governance theorising. C. Cornforth has been a strong advocate of the need to push beyond the organisational horizon and encompass multiple organisations in a governance system.
