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Gender and Self-Selection into a Competitive Environment : Are Women More Overconfident than Men?

Nekby, Lena; Skogman Thoursie, Peter; Vahtrik, Lars - 2021

Using a large running race in Sweden, this study shows that there are male-dominated environments in which the selection of women who participate are more likely to be confident/competitive and that, within this group, performance improves equally for both genders

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Understanding rivalry and its influence on sports fans

Havard, Cody T. (ed.) - 2019

"This book examines what causes and influences rivalry and how it impacts sports fans. It contains studies and …

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Sport business in Alpine tourism destinations : analysing factors of competitiveness

Happ, Elisabeth - 2020

This doctoral thesis investigates deeper in competitiveness and sports businesses dealing with the following overall … research question: Which factors determine the competitiveness of sports businesses in Alpine tourism destinations? In context … of this doctoral thesis, Porter's Diamond (1990) serves as a basis for researching competitiveness in the sports …

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Outcome uncertainty in sporting events : winning, losing and competitive balance

Rodríguez, Plácido (ed.); Kesenne, Stefan (ed.); … - 2020

the 21st century: Hawk eye on competitive balance -- 3. Stephen Jenkins (Berry College, USA), E. Frank Stephenson (Berry … College, USA): When teammates are a drag: The effect of "spingate" on the benefit of NASCAR drivers having teammates -- 4 …. Mikala Lowrance (Southern Utah University, USA), Jacob Miller (Southern Utah University, USA) and Joshua Price (Southern Utah …

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Order of play advantage in sequential tournaments : evidence from randomized settings in professional golf

Brady, Ryan R.; Insler, Michael A. - In: Journal of behavioral and experimental economics 79 (2019), pp. 79-92

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Vitalizing effect of athlete-drafting task in fantasy sports : the role of competitive goal-framing, involvement, and competitiveness trait

Jang, Wonseok; Kwak, Dae Hee; Ko, Yong Jae - In: European Sport management quarterly : ESMQ 20 (2020) 4, pp. 403-420

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Fair elimination-type competitions

Arlegi, Ritxar; Dimitrov, Dinko - In: European journal of operational research : EJOR 287 (2020) 2, pp. 528-535

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Anti-tanking pair matching before an elimination phase of a two-phase tournament

Stronka, Waldemar - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 3/66, pp. 1-13

Perverse incentives are ubiquitous in different economic settings. In sports, they often take the form of temptation to …

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Enhancing destination competitiveness through disability sport event legacies : developing an interdisciplinary typology

Dickson, Tracey J.; Misener, Laura; Darcy, Simon - In: International journal of contemporary hospitality management 29 (2017) 3, pp. 924-946

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On outcome uncertainty and scoring rates in sport : the case of international rugby union

Scarf, Philip A.; Parma, Rishikesh; McHale, Ian - In: European journal of operational research : EJOR 273 (2019) 2, pp. 721-730

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