Accepted abstracts

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(Please observe that for various reasons not all accepted abstracts were presented at the conference)

Abstracts that were presented at Play the Game 2017:

• The requirements of integrity in Sport Global Governance, Alberto Carrio Sampedro
• Any spares? I’ll buy or sell: An ethnographic study of black market ticket sales, Alessandro Moretti
• Football’s Secret Trade, Alex Duff
• Governance in sport: Legitimacy in the Colombian sports federations, Ana Arias Castaño
• Elephant in the Room? Prevalence of Doping in Elite Sport, Andrea Petroczi
• Toward an Olympic Governance Legacy, Andrew Spalding
• Kristen Worley\s case & what it means for the rights of athletes, Andy Brown
• Publish or perish: The need for transparency at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, Antoine Duval
• Extended Athletes’ Rights - A Necessary Power Shift in Elite Sport?, Benjamin Bendrich
• Norwegian Ski Federation and two doping cases: crisis management and lost reputation, Berit Skirstad
• VOICEs for truth and dignity - combatting sexual violence in European sport through the voices of those affected, Bettina Rulofs
• Expanding the National Football League to the European and Global Sports Marketplace: An Examination of Sports Consumption and Cultural Differences, Bradley Ridpath
• Perceptions of Differences in American educationally based sports and the European Club Sport Development system, Bradley Ridpath
• Embedding the human rights of athletes in world sport, Brendan Schwab
• Does revenue growth make football\s financial regulation obsolete?, Christian Mueller
• Rendering the Games: the essence of the mega-event accumulation regime, Christopher Gaffney
• Money Matters: The Impact of Prize Money on Doping Behavior - An Agent-based Analysis, Daniel Westmattelmann
• How to protect the clean athletes?, David Müller
• The Third Team: A New Model for Analysing Board Potential and Performance, Denis Mowbray
• From Rio to Hamburg and Back: The Sport Mega Event Politics of Camouflage,  Dennis Pauschinger
• Culture Matters: Compliance in sports, Dolf Segaar
• Pirates of the Caribbean. Censorship and alternative in the Cuban sports press, Eloy Viera Cañive
• Matchfixing: what makes an athlete rig a match?  A study on the personal and contextual determinants of the willingness to fix a match in Football, Els De Waegeneer
• Good Governance in International Sport Federations: the use of ethical codes. Els De Waegeneer
• For a good governance starting by the law of sport, Elvira Baze
• City of Exception, Emanuel Mello Mattos
• Romanian Football Federation: In search of good governance, Florian Petrică
• Understanding the applicability of good governance guidelines in developing sports systems, Geoff Schoenberg
• Fight against doping in the top level sport of the FRG - expression of good governance?, Gerhard Treutlein
• Who Belongs to the Nation? Sport, Migration and Citizenship Changes, Gijsbert Oonk
• Introducing the way how marathons can become more exciting television product, Grzegorz Lagowski
• Money Laundering in professional football, Hans Nelen
• 040Beweeglab: living lab Sports & Vitality Eindhoven, Harmen Bijsterbosch
• Hosting major events: Why all the problems?, Harry-Arne Solberg
• Obsessed with perfect pictures, Ian Mengel
• Sustainable mega-events: A look at some of the solutions related to the organization of the Olympic Games, Igor Kováč
• Diversity in football and sport coaching and leadership, Jacco Sterkenburg
• Innovative approach creates new arenas for sport, Jakob Færch
• Piracy in the world of watersports, Jacob Færch
• Drug Anti-Diversion Strategies to Address Sports Anti-Doping Programs, Joe Harris
• The Businesses of the Austrian Ski Federation, Johann Skocek
• Whistleblowing in sport contexts: some moral and psychological problems, Jose Luis Pérez Triviño
• Anti-Doping Reform: Proposals from the Coal Face, Joseph de Pencier
• Towards new modes of conflict and representation? The rise of labor relations in European sport, Juergen Mittag
• A Post Brexit Impact: A Case Study on the English Premier League, Karen Perry
• The dangers of sports journalism, Kirsten Sparre
• Workers conditions in the sports industry, Lars Andersson
• Can democratic participation and good governance be supported by digitalization processes?, Lars Houbak
• A new chapter - How intelligence and investigation can change the anti-doping work,  Lars Mortsiefer
• Not Above the Law: Using Human Rights Laws to Address Abuse Allegations in Sport, Laura Robinson
• Big Games in Small Places: The Perceived Impact of the African Youth Games on Organizational Capacity in Botswana Sport Organisations, Louis Moustakas
• Football for good and the football3 method: can football in three halves lead to social inclusion?,  Louis Moustakas
• Governance change for National Governing Bodies of Sport Is this leading to the alignment of strategy and governance in England, the UK?, Marc Taylor
• Participation of Athletes by Means of Digital Tools in the Context of Anti-Doping, Marc Wonneberger
• Negotiating privacy. Athletes assessment and knowledge of the ADAMS, Marcel Scharf
• Full Contact Martial Arts and Combat Sports need joint regulation to safeguard health, integrity and its promising social value!, Marianne Dortants
• Can we fix the Match Fixing problem? An agent-based model to fight the biggest threat to modern sports, Marius Sprenger
• Rethinking the pyramidal structure of sport- an insight from the national perspective,  Marko Begović
• Too small to win? National Anti-Doping Organizations and their fight against doping. The perspective of organizational theory, Markus Seyfried
• Cash & Carnival- World Cup’s boost and Brazil’s setback, Matthias Fett
• Perception of Doping in Switzerland, Matthias Kamber
• Employment Relations within the Olympic Movement: Consequences of the Monopoly Power of Organized Sport, Maximilian Seltmann
• An assessment of the pyramidal network of professional cycling and the underrepresentation of athletes in governance and decision-making, Michael Carcaise
• Discrimination for Indian sportswomen at all levels, Murali Krishnan
• Can World Sport Embrace Human Rights?, Nikki Dryden
• Match fixing in Europe is here to stay, Nikolaos Theodorou
• The effectiveness of anti-doping policies, Olivier de Hon
• Corporate Cheerleaders: Major League Soccer\s new breed of manufactured ultras, Owen Evans
• RIO 2016: Between national and Olympic challenges, Paul Hover
• Study of European National Anti-Doping Organizations (NADO) Reporting Practices, Paulina Tomczyk
• Major Sports Events: The Challenges of Hosting Them Efficiently, Per Ståle Knardal
• How Danish sports leaders are changing the international federations from within, Poul Broberg
• Demand for Stadium Attendance in the Danish football, Rasmus K. Storm
• Innovate and collaborate for physical activation of citizens, René Wijlens
• The future of sport in the Netherlands: challenges and opportunities for sport policies, Robert Vonk
• Stadium Financing as a Good Governance Problem, Ryan Gauthier
• Paradigm repair and the hero myth in American sports journalism: An analysis of Lance Armstrong coverage, Sada Reed
• A Compatibility Issue: International Sporting Events and Domestic Polities 1945-2016, Scott Jedlicka
• Impact and Legacy of the 2013 EuroBasket I Slovenia, Simon Licen
• The sport-related legacy of London 2012: Five years on, Spencer Harris
• The Gambit - Who benefits from reducing chess to a sport and what are the costs?, Stefan Löffler
• Introductory statements: Transforming the business of Pro Cycling, Steve Maxwell
• The breakaway leagues that no-one noticed, Steve Menary
• Sports Journalism on TV at Football EURO 2016 - a Comparison of Live Commentary in Four Different Countries, Thomas Horky
• Clean Athletes Beliefs about Anti-Doping Policy Legitimacy and Support, Vassilis Barkoukis