That football Head Coaches will be dismissed for poor performance and will quit when they have better outside options … literature indicates little improvement in team performance when one coach replaces another. Equally, Head Coaches may have few …

leaders and organisational performance. Using game-by-game linked employer-employee data for professional football in four … reweight teams' performance prior to the departure of a Coach so that trends in team performance prior to the departure match … spells which ended with a Coach remaining in post. Consistent with theory, Head Coach quits have little or no impact on team …

this incentive mechanism is reinvigorated after a management change - but only when the team is sufficiently homogenous … on coach dismissals in the German football league where the selection of players is indeed a key task of the coach …. Indeed, we find substantial evidence that coach replacements enhance team performance (only) in homogenous teams. Moreover …

which teams enjoy different levels of support from the crowd - the home team has many more supporters, mainly because of …

the UEFA European Football Championship (from 1960 to 2012). We relate team performance (in terms of points gained and …We investigate the role of fatigue in soccer (football). Although this issue is important for the "productivity" of … international tournaments, there are no relevant effects of enjoying different days of rest on team performance. However, we find …

This paper examines the relationship between customer preferences and ethnic team composition in German professional … soccer. Ethnic team composition is measured using facial recognition techniques, player names, and nationality. The study ….6 percentage points. When examining the impacts of these changes in ethnic team composition on team productivity and economic …

have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour market, the Fantasy Football Premier League …

One of the potential avenues for former professional football players to pursue their career is to become a head coach … of a club’s first team. An important question is how to best prepare for such a reconversion. This letter is the first in …

Does national team performance boost birth rates? We compiled a unique dataset combining country-level monthly birth … rates for 50 European countries, along 56 years, with measures of national teams' performance in 27 international football …