Governing Sports in the Global Era: A Political Economy of Major League Baseball and its Stakeholders
2000; Indiana University Press; Volume: 8; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1543-0367
Autores Tópico(s)Sports Analytics and Performance
ResumoThe globalization of professional sports, such as Major League Baseball (MLB), raises anew the issue of how international associations, nation-states, and national sports leagues should or could share responsibilities for the management of a sport. Underpinning this issue is how sports governance systems represent the interests of club owners, players, fans, other affected businesses, and the public interest of different societies. Developing governance systems that include the varied interests of these diverse stakeholders has become more complex now that the leagues in separate nations are themselves developing linkages with international organizations created to govern specific sports. Even baseball leagues in North America and Europe are developing international marketing programs that create transnational relationships. At the same time, international sports organizations exist for virtually every sport, and the governance of the world of sports has become exceedingly complex in the global era. For example, the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)1 is the international governing body for world soccer. FIFA is responsible for regulating the elite domestic soccer leagues in England, Italy, Spain, and Germany, each of which markets team products internationally and in countries where they do not have teams. Unlike the baseball and hockey leagues in North America, the English Premiership and the first-division national leagues of Italy, Spain, and Germany do not have teams in other countries.2 Each of these elite soccer
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