
Vas GirginovBrunel University London · Department of Life Sciences
Vas Girginov
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September 2006 - October 2014
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The study examines governments' policy responses in sport during the pandemic casued by Covid-19. Applies Hood and Margetts' (2007) NATO approach to analysing national governments in China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, UK and USA use of policy instruments to affect the governance, access to and consumption of sport. Regardless of ideological persuasions,...
Research question: The paper interrogates the growing quantification of good governance and its implications for sport organisations. It addresses what shapes the production of governance codes and who decides what aspects of governance to be quantified and how we govern and study the quantification of good governance in sport.
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The aim of this study is to map the challenges that sport clubs face in using good governance and ethical leadership principles. The research question can be summarised as: what are the challenges that sport clubs of different organisational capacity face in implementing good governance and ethical leadership principles a...
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Intangible legacy encapsulates the essence of Olympism and its manifestation, the Olympic Games. Despite significant interest in the capacity of the Olympics to produce notable changes in society, conceptual difficulties in defining and measuring intangible legacy persist. The study develops a conceptual definition of intangible Olympic leg...
Elite sport in Russia is a part of a comprehensive state system of physical culture rooted in long traditions for the harmonious development of the person. It is governed by laws and regulations and is subject to a good degree of bureaucratic control. The elite sport system serves a number of social, political, ideological and economic functions. T...
In this document the results of the literature review of the project “Promoting health enhancing physical activity and social welfare through outdoor running events/RUN for HEALTH” are described. The project aims to promote sports, exercise and social well-being through the organization of running events. The mission of the project is fourfold:
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This chapter interrogates the changing nature of fitness provision in Bulgaria: from the predominantly collective forms of provision and consumption until 1990s to the current more individual and deregulated market in urban settings. The study utilises an inductive qualitative methodology and builds on two data sources: (i) a comprehensive literatu...
Wearable technology has become increasingly popular and available since the mid-2000s, raising hopes for new and innovative ways to address long-standing issues of physical inactivity that have plagued modern societies. Despite growing interest in the field and a voluminous body of literature, analyses of wearable technology-induced social interact...
Recent scandals across the word of sport can be directly related to poor governance. This Research Handbook gathers the state-of-the-art research on sport governance by leading international scholars on various issues across various sports, offering a vital reference point for advancing research.
Illustrating different approaches and perspectives...
Delivering Sport-for-All is a major challenge for sport organizations and policy-makers worldwide. Sport-for-All is a practical activity and a knowledge intensive field, characterized by dispersed knowledge creation and sharing processes involving numerous agencies, professionals and volunteers; in other words, it is a community of practice. Commun...
This study interrogates the ramifications for the integrity of sport of the McLaren Report (2016a McLaren, R., 2016a. The independent person report. Montreal: WADA, Available from: https://www.wada-ama.org/sites/default/files/resources/files/20160718_ip_report_newfinal.pdf [Accessed 3 January 2017]. [Google Scholar]) into doping allegations concern...
When London hosted the 1948 Olympic Games, volunteering was the only way to deliver them, as there were no government subsidies, global commercial sponsorship or broadcasting fees (The Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, 1948). By the time London staged the Games in 2012, volunteering had become a strategically planned and professionally man...
This chapter explores leisure’s role in the construction of totalitarian politics in Eastern Europe. A meaningful understanding of the contribution of leisure to totalitarian politics needs to go beyond the master narrative of the total state domination over civil society through a reign of terror and submission of the individual to the collective....
Strengthening the work of national voluntary sport organisations (VSOs) is of strategic importance as they are considered custodians of their sport and have been entrusted with its governance, management of significant public funds and provision of services to a vast network of clubs and millions of participants. Using a mixed method approach, the...
The role and statue of the UK sport governing bodies of sport (NGBS) in determining and delivering the national sport policy over the past twenty years have undergone significant changes. This chapter tracks the conceptual and structural evolution of NGBs and, in particular, their relationship with government policies. Two discernible trends are hi...
Research question: This study explores the link between management competencies of 15 presidents of Brazilian Olympic Sport Federations (OSF) from the state of Minas Gerais and how they actually manage. Overemphasizing the conceptual importance of managers’ competencies at the expense of what they actually do can lead to the creation of an illusory...
The organisers of the 2012 London Olympics have endeavoured explicitly to use the Games to inspire a generation. This is nothing short of putting the main claim of Olympism to the test, but surprisingly the Inspire project has received virtually no scholarly scrutiny. Using an educationally-informed view of inspiration, this paper interrogates the...
Research question: There is a paucity of knowledge about how national public sport agencies create and leverage information and knowledge to increase participation in sport. This paper addresses what is the role of public governing bodies (PSO) in creating new models for understanding participation in sport? how do they mediate knowledge on sport p...
The Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is the first authoritative and comprehensive account of the world’s greatest sporting and cultural event. It tells the complete story of the 2012 Games from inception, through the successful bidding process and the planning and preparation phase, to delivery, the post-Games period and leg...
The Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is the first authoritative and comprehensive account of the world’s greatest sporting and cultural event. It tells the complete story of the 2012 Games from inception, through the successful bidding process and the planning and preparation phase, to delivery, the post-Games period and leg...
This study addresses the governance of the London 2012 Olympics legacy. It presents legacy not as a retrospective but a prospective concept concerned with shaping the future through interactions between the state, market and society. This entails designing systems of governance to guide and steer collective actions towards a consensus amongst vario...
In the case of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, 70,000 volunteers were selected from more than one million applicants and the majority were university students in Beijing (BOCOG, 2008). Drawing upon theories of social, human and political capital, as developed by Bourdieu (1986; 1991), Coleman (1988) and Putnam (2000) respectively, this research ana...
The paper follows on from an earlier study and addresses our understanding of the construction of Olympic legacy. It poses the question what counts as knowledge and who is responsible for producing it and questions the value of rational, objectively-produced knowledge which continues to dominate the sport legacy policy agenda at the expense of othe...
This paper addresses the under-explored culture-sport management nexus and answers the question owhy does it matter?o. After reviewing the current culture debates, seven main aspects of culture and related underlying processes, which provide both the focus of and the milieu within which sport management operates, are identified, including (i) norma...
This study attempts to develop a research agenda for understanding the process of constructing a sustainable Olympic sports development legacy. The research uses a social constructivist perspective to examine the link between the 2012 London Olympic Games and sustainable sports development. The first part of the paper provides justification for the...
Sport participation development requires a systematic process which involves knowledge creation, dissemination and interactions between National Sport Organisations, participants, clubs and associations as well as other agencies. Using a relationship marketing approach (Grönroos, 1997, Gummesson, 2002, Olkkonen, 1999), this paper addressed the ques...
The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games have stimulated discussions about the success of different sport systems, and the Chinese model in particular. Revisiting explanations of sport in the former Communist countries of Eastern Europe during the Cold War seems timely, as the current Chinese model of sport was largely designed after the Soviet example estab...
The London 2012 bid was based on the promise to use the Olympic Games to promote sports participation for all groups across the UK. This is the most ambitious project in the history of the Olympic Games in terms of both its scope and level of change, as, in order to be implemented successfully, it has to address not only people's behaviour but also...
'Dancing Beijing' and 'Join in London' are the official emblems of the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games. The 'Dancing Beijing' is a static image; 'Join in London' is a dynamic image. Both emblems represent core cultural values of two civilizations. The former epitomizes the Eastern way of thinking and conveys the unique cultural quality and elegance of...
The paper examined the process of changing in three Bulgarian national sport organisations (NSO) in swimming, weightlifting and field hockey, as the country is undergoing fundamental political, economic and social transformations from state socialism (1945-1989) to democratisation (1990-present). Drawing on the contextualist approach to organisatio...
The World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) vision to promote a new moral order in sport and new forms of organization and management through the World Anti Doping Code (WADC) amount to creating a new corporate culture. The WADC's emphasis on policy implementation places sport governing bodies (SGBs) and managers at the heart of the enterprise. This repr...
Various interpretations of sport management are cultural constructs underpinned by core assumptions and values held by members of professional communities. Sport managers world wide share common problems, but differ in how they resolve them. These universal differences emerge from the relationships they form with other people, and their attitude to...
Sport sponsorship is perceived typically as a transaction within the dyad of sport and commercial organisations. Subsequently, existing research displays preoccupations with the behaviour of the commercial organisations, and neglects the interests of other important actors including mediating agencies, the media and governments. Drawing from the co...
Literature on totalitarianism has systematically ignored the development of sport as an essential aspect of the ideology and practices of totalitarian regimes. This void is addressed by considering the conceptual grounding, politics, cultural form and legacy of totalitarian sport. Three different conceptions of totalitarianism are employed to analy...
The dismissal of totalitarian regimes across Eastern Europe challenged the strategic orientation of sport in these countries. A central issue concerning the shaping of the new sport policies and the role of democratic states surprisingly as yet has not generated thorough academic analyses. As a result of transformations, the sport sector is undergo...
Estudio de carácter introductor a la historia y significado de los Juegos Olímpicos, en el que es presentada una visión de conjunto del olimpismo desde sus orígenes en la antigua Grecia hasta el movimiento olímpico global y las complejidades para organizar este suceso multideportivo a inicios del siglo XXI, pasando por el reestablecimiento de los J...
A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy of Loughborough University. More specifically, it seeks to examine the making of sports policy as a field of state activity and as a process involving various projects, agents and transformations, by uncovering the underlying structures and...
The World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) vision to promote a new moral order in sport and new forms of organisation and management through the World Anti Doping code (WADC) amount to creating a new corporate culture. WADC’s emphasis on policy implementation places sport governing bodies (SGB) and managers at the heart of the enterprise. This represent...
The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games have stimulated discussions about the success of different sport systems and the Chinese model in particular. Revisiting explanations of sport in the former communist countries of Eastern Europe during the Cold War seems timely, as the current Chinese model of sport was largely designed after the Soviet example establ...