The limits and opportunities of self-regulation: achieving international sport federations’ compliance with good governance standards

Research question: This article explores whether self-regulation has the potential to achieve the universal adoption of good governance by international sport federations (IFs). It introduces a framework on the basis of compliance theory to analyse IFs’ recent self-regulation initiatives, namely the Basic Universal Principles of Good Governance of the Olympic and Sports Movement (PGG) and the Key Governance Principles and Basic Indicators...