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Top Prospects and Minor League Baseball Attendance
Gitter, Seth R.; Rhoads, Thomas A. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 12 (2011) 3, pp. 341-351
Minor League Baseball attracts over 40 million fans a year. One potentially important attendance draw is the ability …€™s attendance. Their results suggest that only those prospects ranked in the top 5 and at the highest level (AAA) have an impact on … their team’s attendance and their impact on attendance is small. …
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Stadium Alcohol Availability and Baseball Attendance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Chupp, Andrew; Stephenson, E. Frank; Taylor, Ron - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 2 (2007) 1, pp. 36-44
Although conventional wisdom holds that alcohol availability increases baseball attendance, little evidence exists on … the complementarity between attendance and alcohol availability. To address this gap in the literature, we examine the … effect of Rome, Georgia’s November 2004 legalization of Sunday alcohol sales on a minor league baseball team’s attendance …
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A CLIMATE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY ENHANCES THE SUCCESS OF FRONT END TEAMS
NIENABER, ANN-MARIE I.; HOLTORF, VERENA; LEKER, JENS; … - In: International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim) 19 (2015) 02, pp. 1550027-1
This paper contributes to the discussion about initiative in teams at the front end of new product development processes (innovative teams). In contrast to the general opinion presented in the literature, this study points out that unstructured innovative teams are as much initiative in...
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The effectiveness of coach turnover and the effect on home team advantage, team quality and team ranking
Balduck, Anne-Line; Prinzie, Anita; Buelens, Marc - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 37 (2010) 4, pp. 679-689
The effectiveness of coach turnover on team performance is widely discussed in the literature due to the indirect impact of a team's performance on a club's revenues. This study examines the effect of coach turnover within a competition season by focusing on the change in team quality and the...
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The effectiveness of coach turnover and the effect on home team advantage, team quality and team ranking.
BALDUCK, A-L.; PRINZIE, A.; BUELENS, M. - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent - 2008
The effectiveness of coach turnover on team performance is widely discussed in the literature due to the indirect impact of a team’s performance on a club’s revenues. This study examines the effect of coach turnover within a competition season by focusing on the change in team quality and...
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The Impacts of Promotions/Marketing, Scheduling, and Economic Factors on Total Gross Revenues for Minor League Baseball Teams
Cebula, Richard; Coombs, Christopher; Lawson, Luther; … - In: International Advances in Economic Research 19 (2013) 3, pp. 249-257
The purpose of this empirical study is to identify the key marketing and scheduling determinants of game attendance at … league teams in similar environments with information to more efficiently pursue the goal of game attendance maximization. To …
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Called up to the Big Leagues: An Examination of the Factors Affecting the Location of Minor League Baseball Teams
Davis, Michael C. - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 1 (2006) 4, pp. 253-264
baseball team, combined with past studies suggesting income does not affect minor league baseball attendance, leads us to …
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The Economic Impact of Stadiums and Teams
Agha, Nola - In: Journal of Sports Economics 14 (2013) 3, pp. 227-252
This article uses an extensive unique data set to investigate the efficiency of government subsides for minor league baseball teams and stadiums by measuring pecuniary gains in a local economy. Specifically, a dynamic panel data model incorporating 238 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) that...
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When can economic impact be positive? Nine conditions that explain why smaller sports can have bigger impacts
Agha, Nola; Rascher, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This explanatory research reviews the economic impact literature to identify the conditions that would theoretically allow any sport, large or small, to generate positive economic effects. Nine conditions are identified that, when present, could allow a community to experience a positive...
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Television and Minor League Baseball
Surdam, David G. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 6 (2005) 1, pp. 61-77
€™ attendance provides mixed support for the historians’ thesis. Instead, the minor leagues over expanded into small towns …
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