Governance in Sport Organizations: Analyzing the Good Governance in Vietnamese Sport Organizations

Abstract

In recent years, the development of sport has led to many changes in sport organizations. To meet the requirements upon the expansion of environment for sport, such as increases of stakeholders, commercial concerning, social contribution, et cetera, sport organizations need appropriate adjustments in operating and managing their structure. Sport governance, therefore, has been concentrated by many organizations and authors, and considered as the key to assess and develop the sport organizations activities. Action for Good Governance in International Sports Organization ? AGGIS is a project completed by the coordination of Danish Institute for Sports Studies and six European universities and European Journalism Centre to develop a measuring tool for governance assessment: The Sports Governance Observer. With 47 indicators of 4 dimensions, this tool allows any person to analyze the quality of good governance of international and major national sport organizations. Currently, there are 25 national sport organizations in Vietnam, which are playing an important role to the development of Vietnamese sport. By using AGGIS Sports Governance Observer, this study analyzes the good governance of Vietnamese Sports Organizations (VSOs) to build an overall picture of the issue in VSOs. It also aims to figure out the problems of VSOs in terms of good governance. Hence, the study wishes to suggest some solutions for VSOs to enhance its good governance for further development.