Education as a compliance mechanism for good governance in sport: the case of GReFORM

ABSTRACT

Τhe growing crisis of legitimacy of sport organisations has led to the need for these organisations to adhere to, and practice, principles of good governance. Yet, recent studies have shown that levels of compliance to such ‘external pressures’ vary across countries and organisations. In this lecture, the reasons and logics of non-compliance are given before a specific set of compliance mechanisms are offered. This becomes possible by drawing on the GReFORM programme that has been developed to provide basic (e-)training for volunteer board members on principles of good governance.

ABOUT THE RESEARCHER

Dr. Christos Anagnostopoulos is the Deputy Dean of the School of Business and Management of the British University of Central Lancashire in Cyprus, and an Associate Professor in sport management at the Faculty of Business Administration and Social Sciences at Molde University College (Norway). He is an editorial board member in nine international scientific journals related to sport management, and he has more than 120 scientific publications (books, articles, international conferences). He has served the Board of Directors of the European Association for Sport Management (EASM), while he now is the Secretary General of the charitable foundation of Cyprus Basketball Federation. In 2018, he was commissioned by the highest authority of sport in the Republic of Cyprus to write the first ever Code of Good Governance for the national sport federations, while in May he was appointed as the sole consultant for the development of a multi-criteria evaluation scheme that assesses the performance of the national sport federations in Cyprus. Since November 2020, he is leading the ‘working group’ 'Science, Research and Technology in Sport' that serves as the consultancy body in the area of sport of the Greek political party New Democracy (currently the ruling party in Greece).