Voting Rules in Sports Governing Body Constitutions
To identify, classify, and explain the implications of different types of voting rules (for the election of company directors, constitutional amendment and other identified purposes) in the corporate constitutions of sports governing bodies including National Sporting Organisations and national league competition organisers.
Project Owner: University of MelbourneYear commenced: 2011
Anticipated completion:
Status: Ongoing
Project ID: ID-231106-5689
Publications
| Title: | The diversity of director election rules in Australian National Sporting Organisations. |
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| Type | Academic Article |
| Details: | Ian Ramsay and Robert D. Macdonald (2023). The diversity of director election rules in Australian National Sporting Organisations. Company and Securities Law Journal, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 37-53. |
| Link: | https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4615744 |
| Access/Audience: | Open |
| Date: | 2023 |
| Title: | The Australian Sports Commission's 'Governance Reform in Sport' discussion paper and voting rules in corporate constitutions. |
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| Type: | Academic Article |
| Details: | Robert D. Macdonald and Ian Ramsay (2016). The Australian Sports Commission's 'Governance Reform in Sport' discussion paper and voting rules in corporate constitutions. Company and Securities Law Journal, Vol. 34, No. 5, pp.387-402. |
| Link: | https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2828512 |
| Access/Audience: | Open |
| Date: | 2016 |
| Title: | Constitutional voting rules of Australian National Sporting Organizations: comparative analysis and principles of constitutional design. |
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| Type: | Academic Article |
| Details: | Robert D. Macdonald and Ian Ramsay. (2016). Constitutional voting rules of Australian National Sporting Organizations: Comparative analysis and principles of constitutional design. Harvard Journal of Sports & Entertainment Law, Vol. 7. No. 1, pp.53-132. |
| Link: | https://journals.law.harvard.edu/jsel/wp-content/uploads/sites/78/2016/04/HLS102.pdf |
| Access/Audience: | Open |
| Date: | 2016 |
| Title: | The evolution of governance in the Australian National Basketball League, 1979–2013. |
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| Type: | Other |
| Details: | Robert D. Macdonald and Rick Burton. (2014). The evolution of governance in the Australian National Basketball League, 1979–2013. In Young Hoon Lee and Rodney Fort (eds). (2014). The Sports Business in The Pacific Rim: Economics and Policy, Springer Cham, pp.207-232. Chapter First Online: 01 January 2014 |
| Link: | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-10037-1_12 |
| AccessAudience: | Restricted (contact owner for more information) |
| Date: | 2014 |
Project owner
| Contact Name: | Robert Macdonald |
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| Contact Information: | rdmac@unimelb.edu.au |