performance by examining the effects of players’ international career diversity on the performance of national football teams …

professional football teams in the First Division of the Spanish Football League. Design/methodology/approach – In team sports, the … managers halfway through the season. Practical implications – Changing managers can be a good move when a football team is not … techniques to deal with the analysis of the effect of a change of manager on the performance of football teams.  …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the increasing commercialisation of professional football in France … pluralism of football clubs; thus opening up new perspectives for future research on clubs’ governance. It does not, however … organisational identity and make it more consistent. Practical implications – Governance and management issues in football might be …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue for the necessity of regulating European club football financially, in … it within the field of European professional football. Findings – The paper finds substantial evidence of soft budget … constraints in professional football clubs, and argues that softness punishes the few financially well‐managed clubs in sporting …

changes in share prices of three football clubs involved in the 2006 Italian “Calciopoli” scandal. Design … to three benchmark indices – FTSE MIB, DJ Stoxx Europe 600, and DJ Stoxx Europe Football – indexed from 2 Jan 2006 … particular scandal in Italian football.  …

compared to a one‐stage approach in measuring a football club's efficiency. Moreover it provides best practice benchmarks for … the research sample which supports football officials to orient themselves to the right clubs. Design … efficiency of English Premier League football clubs from an off‐field and an on‐field perspective. The results are compared with …

football clubs. Design/methodology/approach – This paper, drawn from 22 semi‐structured interviews with key individuals in the … English professional football (soccer) industry, employs an interpretivist approach of semi‐structured interviews of key … personnel to provide an account of the business practices prevalent in the English football industry. Findings – The findings …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study if and how the evaluation of the boards in the top Nordic male football … on the following functions of football boards: review of business plan, strategy, objective and budget; discussion on …

. Originality/value – The paper confirms empirically that football clubs that float on the stock market are in better financial …