An Integrity System Framework for the FIFA World Cups
(2022) Routledge Handbook of Business of the FIFA World Cup — ISBN: [9780367640170], published
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- Integrity has been a long-standing issue for many international sports bodies (Pielke, 2016). FIFA, the international governing body of world football, represents no exception. The purpose of this chapter is to examine how the processes of bidding for and hosting of World Cup tournaments is governed. This will be underpinned by an analysis of ethical practices in both organisation and governance, as well as by focusing on the recent attempts to improve ethical standards applied to tournament decisions. Acknowledging the definitional ambiguity and the breadth of the constructs of governance, corruption, and ethics, we considered it is appropriate to synthetise these complementary constructs under the notion of integrity. This chapter uses - and argues the utility of applying - the lens of a sport integrity system framework as conceptualised by Kihl (2020) as a relevant governance approach to analyse FIFA’s governance and integrity reforms. This chapter employs this framework to offer a number of critical points to take into consideration for future governance and integrity-enhancing initiatives in FIFA.
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Zeimers, G., & Constandt, B. (2022). An Integrity System Framework for the FIFA World Cups. In S. Chadwick D. Parnell, P. Widdop, C. & Anagnostopoulos (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Business of the FIFA World Cup (Routledge). Routledge. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/223195