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

the professional football teams in Ligue 1. Second, to understand why some teams swing from a win orientation towards a …

advantage”, and possible “umpire bias”, in the Australian Football League (AFL). Design/methodology/approach – Using categorical …

Purpose – Prior research has argued that business practices within English football clubs are amateurish and outdated …

European football clubs could capitalize on in order to build or rebuild the brand identity of their respective team via the … the promise these teams articulate to their fans, on and off the football pitch. Moreover, the values that a team … one of the first studies looking at the leverage a European football competition could provide to previously successful …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of superstars (and other factors) on football fans … on professional German football players and clubs as well as survey data of more than 900 football fans is used. The … superstars, team loyalty and team identification prevent football fans from being attracted to competition, the team's recent …

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 …