GAA Management Changes in Senior Championship Football, 1986-2015 – Deceleration or Repetitive Momentum Hypothesis?

This study examined management changes in the GAA Senior Football Championships over thirty years to discover which hypothesis could be applied – the Deceleration Hypothesis or the Repetitive Momentum Hypothesis. Logistic regression was used with panel data. The Kaplan-Meier method calculated the survival distribution and Cox regression was used to obtain a graph of the survival curve. The results showed that management change was due to the repetitive momentum hypothesis – once an organisation gets used to changing managers, subsequent changes are easier and more likely to be carried out