E-Sports Management and Organizations

The main aim of this research is to examine the role of e-sports in sports management bycontributing to the conceptual discussions about e-sport management and organization. One of the mostimportant features of today’s World is the rapid technological changes. These rapid changes naturally createchanges in the structure of society and living conditions. On of the changes that took place in the twentiethcentury was video games. These video games have developed over time, attracting more people’s attentionand it has created an understanding of e-sports that has become a protession or occupation for large masses.E-sport or electronic sports are defined as words that can be watched live or on the internet by their viewerswhile playing video game protessionally. When it is evaluated in terms of sports management andorganizations, it seen that with the establishment of international e-sports federation and its evaluation as asport, the countries are formed in the administrative sense with the organizations organized after theestablishment of federations and clubs. E-sport, which departs from traditional sports concept, consist of newtechnolohies, areas that differ in terms of management and organizations and its own special arbitrators,managers, athlets and followers. With this aspect, in parallel with the increase in the number of environmentswithin the ecosystem it has created, it has also ensured the formation of a large economy. This research, e sport management and organizations are evaluated with descriptive method. It is thought that e-sport willshed light on the studies that will be done by determining its place in sports management.