Academic interest in the economics of professional team sports dates back as far as the mid-
1950s. Since then, many books and journal articles have been written on the subject. Much …

Performance prediction is an issue of vital importance in many real managerial applications.
This paper will propose a prediction approach for sports team performance based on data …

Arguing about sports is as old as the games people play. Over the years sports debates
have become muddled by many myths that do not match the numbers generated by those …

This paper provides evidence of the importance of what might be termed 'expert leaders'.
Although it is widely assumed that leaders affect the performance of their organizations, the …

This study integrates upper echelons theory into the sport management literature by
investigating general manager (GM) strategic decision-making in the National Basketball …

Research question: A key task for sports managers of elite sports clubs is to create an ideal
environment that enables athletes to perform at their best. Therefore, we investigate the …

As on‐field success is nowadays the main objective of European soccer clubs, good
management needs to extract the highest sport success from the squad talent at hand …

There is significant debate about compensation of college athletes in revenue generating
sports. In college football, the potential heterogeneity in player value has received little …

This paper evaluates the efficiency of National Basketball Association (NBA) teams under a
two-stage DEA framework. Applying the additive efficiency approach, we decompose overall …

In 2010 UEFA, the governing body of European soccer, announced a set of financial
restraints, that clubs must observe when seeking to enter its competitions, notably the UEFA …