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Tiwisina, Johannes; Kuelpmann, Philipp - Institut für Mathematische Wirtschaftsforschung, … - 2014

soccer, American football and tennis and also use our framework to compare the performance of empirically applied ranking …

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Beating thy Neighbor: Derby Effects in German Professional Soccer

Bäker, Agnes; Mechtel, Mario; Vetter, Karin - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 232 (2012) 3, pp. 224-246

“normal” soccer matches. Terms such as “Old Firm” (Rangers vs. Celtic), “Merseyside” (Liverpool FC vs. Everton FC … respective countries of origin. Using data from the German Bundesliga from 1999 to 2009, we test whether derbies differ from … other soccer matches with respect to the number of goals scored by each team, match results, and referee evaluations. The …

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Does Managerial Turnover Affect Football Club Share Prices?

Bell, Adrian R. - 2012

This paper analyses the 53 managerial sackings and resignations from 16 stock exchange listed English football clubs during the nine seasons between 2000/01 and 2008/09. The results demonstrate that on average, a managerial sacking results in a post-announcement day share price rise of 0.8%,...

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GAA Management Changes in Senior Championship Football, 1986-2015 – Deceleration or Repetitive Momentum Hypothesis?

McGrath, Patricia - 2016

This study examined management changes in the GAA Senior Football Championships over thirty years to discover which hypothesis could be applied – the Deceleration Hypothesis or the Repetitive Momentum Hypothesis. Logistic regression was used with panel data. The Kaplan-Meier method calculated...

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Racial Disparity In Leadership : Evidence of Valuative Bias In The Promotions of National Football League Coaches

Rider, Christopher I.; Wade, James; Swaminathan, Anand; … - 2023

We propose that racial disparity in organizational leadership representation will persist until valuative bias favoring white men ceases to influence advancement from the lower-level positions where most careers begin. We consider how racial disparity results from the organizational matching of...

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Personal Attributes Associated with Successful Management in the Hospitality Industry - A Pilot Study in Licensed Retail Operations

Ineson, Elizabeth - 2012

The research sought to identify key qualities associated with successful licensed retail managers, defined as effective, efficient and profitable operators. Through semi-structured in-depth interviews, managers' views on success criteria, and problems associated with this type of employment,...

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The Signing of a Professional Athlete : Reducing Uncertainty with a Weighted Mean Hemimetric for Fuzzy Subsets

Rojas-Mora, Julio; Gil-Lafuente, Jaime - 2010

In this paper we present a tool to help reduce the uncertainty presented in the decision-making process associated to the selection and hiring of a professional athlete. A weighted mean hemimetric for fuzzy subsets with trapezoidal fuzzy numbers (TrFN) as their elements, allows to compare...

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From 'Fair Play' to 'Serious Play' : Any Leadership Lessons from The Russian Football League?

Madichie, Nnamdi O. - 2013

This paper builds on previous studies on the management and leadership, and the attendant insights that can be garnered from football – highlighting how this ‘perceived play’ has evolved into ‘serious play’ in the boardroom. Two academic papers (Madichie, 2009; Haskins, 2013) form the...

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Fördert sportliche Aktivität den beruflichen Aufstieg?

Müller, Michael - 2016

Eine höhere Entlohnung von sportlich aktiveren Arbeitnehmern konnte in den letzten Jahren bereits mehrfach nachgewiesen werden. Diese wurde u. a. auf eine höhere Durchsetzungsfähigkeit sowie auf bessere soziale Fähigkeiten zurückgeführt. In diesem Beitrag wird mit Daten des...

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Support on the way to the top? The effect of organisational equal opportunities measures on women's promotion prospects

Wanger, Susanne - 2022

Even though women have been able to increase their participation in management positions to a small extent in recent years, they are still significantly underrepresented in management positions. Organisational measures to promote gender equality and work-life balance are seen as an option to...

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