O processo de modernização das organizações nacionais de basquetebol da América Central, América do Sul e Caribe

Abstract

Sports organizations increasingly need to strengthen governance mechanisms by defining and implementing guidelines for their better functioning. Modernization, as an important element of good governance, has become a key driver for the application of performance management techniques in the areas of structure, strategy, and operations within sports organizations. In line with this context, the present study aimed to measure the characteristics of the modernization process of the National Basketball Federations of Central America, the Caribbean and South America, through a documentary-based research, collecting documents from the official websites of 20 National Federations. The research instrument was adapted from the work developed by Furtado et al. (2022) and consists of 25 items for assessing the modernization process in structural, strategic, and operational areas. The results show that, although good examples of modernization were found among the federations analyzed and there is an international effort by competent organizations such as the IOC and FIBA to improve the modernization of organizations, there is evident fragility in the modernization process, which, overall, still appears weak in all these areas. These findings highlight the need for greater concern of sports organizations with modernization processes as a key element for better management and governance, and for the consequent development of basketball in the investigated context.