IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bpj/evoice/v16y2019i1p9n5.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Quid Pro Quo! Organization Theoretical Remarks about FIFA’s Legitimacy Under Blatter and Infantino

Author

Listed:
  • Richau Lukas

    (Saarland University, Faculty of Human and Business Sciences (HW), Homburg, Saarland, Germany)

  • Emrich Eike

    (Saarland University, Faculty of Human and Business Sciences (HW), Homburg, Saarland, Germany)

  • Follert Florian

    (Saarland University, Faculty of Human and Business Sciences (HW), Homburg, Saarland, Germany)

Abstract

This article addresses the question of the legitimacy of sports organizations, with a particular focus on the football organization FIFA. By applying elements of the public choice theory as well as the concept of political machines to FIFA, we show that the FIFA leadership established an allocation system that works on a discretionary basis in addition to the formal rule-based allocation process. FIFA uses this exchange system to please selected member associations, which in return vote in favor of the leadership’s plans and secure its legitimacy. We further illustrate that such a system can only exist in the long run if the majority of both internal and external stakeholders approves the system.

Suggested Citation

  • Richau Lukas & Emrich Eike & Follert Florian, 2019. "Quid Pro Quo! Organization Theoretical Remarks about FIFA’s Legitimacy Under Blatter and Infantino," The Economists' Voice, De Gruyter, vol. 16(1), pages 1-9, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:evoice:v:16:y:2019:i:1:p:9:n:5
    DOI: 10.1515/ev-2019-0014
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/ev-2019-0014
    Download Restriction: For access to full text, subscription to the journal or payment for the individual article is required.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1515/ev-2019-0014?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Emrich, Eike & Pierdzioch, Christian & Pitsch, Werner, 2014. "Die "Marke" Olympia und die besondere Bedeutung von Vertrauenskriterien: Eine Geschichte von Markt, Macht und Moral," Working Papers of the European Institute for Socioeconomics 11, European Institute for Socioeconomics (EIS), Saarbrücken.
    2. Berno Buechel & Eike Emrich & Stefanie Pohlkamp, 2016. "Nobody’s Innocent," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 17(8), pages 767-789, December.
    3. Daumann, Frank & Hofmeister, Hannes, 2012. "Die Vergabe der Olympischen Spiele durch das IOC: Eine institutionenökonomische Analyse," Edition HWWI: Chapters, in: Büch, Martin-Peter & Maennig, Wolfgang & Schulke, Hans-Jürgen (ed.), Zur Ökonomik von Spitzenleistungen im internationalen Sport, volume 3, pages 147-193, Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI).
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Follert Florian & Richau Lukas & Emrich Eike & Pierdzioch Christian, 2020. "Collective Decision-making: FIFA from the Perspective of Public Choice," The Economists' Voice, De Gruyter, vol. 17(1), pages 1-15, December.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Kasim Music, 2020. "The Undesirable Consequences of Doping Regulations: Why Stricter Efforts Might Strengthen Doping Incentives," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 21(3), pages 281-303, April.
    2. Barth Michael, 2015. "Contemporary Research in Sports Economics: Proceedings of the 5th ESEA Conference: Besprechung des von Oliver Budzinski und Arne Feddersen herausgegebenen gleichnamigen Tagungsbandes," ORDO. Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, De Gruyter, vol. 66(1), pages 353-359, January.
    3. Andreas Goetsch & Christian Salzmann, 2018. "The Role of Ex Post Audits in Doping Enforcement," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 19(7), pages 960-976, October.
    4. David Hirschmann, 2017. "May Increasing Doping Sanctions Discourage Entry to the Competition?," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 18(7), pages 720-736, October.
    5. Haut, Jan, 2016. "International prestige through sporting success? Searching empirical evidence," Working Papers of the European Institute for Socioeconomics 17, European Institute for Socioeconomics (EIS), Saarbrücken.
    6. Jeffrey Cisyk & Pascal Courty, 2017. "Do Fans Care About Compliance to Doping Regulations in Sports? The Impact of PED Suspension in Baseball," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 18(4), pages 323-350, May.
    7. Herrmann, Konstantin & Emrich, Eike & Frenger, Monika & Rasche, Christoph, 2018. "First step developing a early-warning system against corruption for sports associations," Working Papers of the European Institute for Socioeconomics 24, European Institute for Socioeconomics (EIS), Saarbrücken.
    8. Jeffrey Cisyk, 2020. "Impacts of Performance-Enhancing Drug Suspensions on the Demand for Major League Baseball," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 21(4), pages 391-419, May.
    9. Daniel Westmattelmann & Marius Sprenger & Sascha Hokamp & Gerhard Schewe, 2020. "Money matters: The impact of prize money on doping behaviour," Sport Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(4), pages 688-703, October.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    FIFA; organization theory; political machine; public choice theory; sports economics;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • L20 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - General
    • L22 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Organization and Market Structure
    • Z28 - Other Special Topics - - Sports Economics - - - Policy

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bpj:evoice:v:16:y:2019:i:1:p:9:n:5. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Peter Golla (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.degruyter.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.