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Teams, in both firms and in sports, jointly produce a product. While a fixed task is assigned to each member of a team …, the individual team productivity of a worker or player is difficult to conceptualize. This is particularly true, if this … individual team productivity which is closely related to eigenvalue centrality; accordingly we refer to it as eigenvalue …
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the effects of recruiting on team success. We also split our sample to investigate whether recruiting displays … heterogeneous effects across schools. Additionally, we find evidence that the benefits of recruiting are driven by team …-specific effects, indicating that team success may be more heavily derived from the ability of teams to nurture their recruits than …
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This article examines whether the player draft used since 1986 in the Australian Football League has caused clubs to tank; that is, to seek to lose matches to obtain improved draft choices. A comparison of clubs’ performances in regular season matches played before and after introduction of...
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players will average the same number of points per shot. This prediction is tested and found to be consistent with …
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Team production is ubiquitous in the economy, but managing teams effectively remains a challenge for many organizations …. This paper studies how familiarity amongst teammates influences the performance of specialist teams, relative to non …-specialist teams. Applying theories of team production to contexts where team members coordinate interdependent activities …
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We use data from top-level soccer to examine determinants of individual misbehaviour in team contests. Our estimates …
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A panel data analysis was used to delineate the effects of selected team and marketplace variables on attendance in the … among spectators between rival teams promoted loyalty, team identification, and consequently increased attendance; and (e) a …
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between profitability and sporting performance in European … of sporting performance and profitability has implications for the existence of clubs with owners with different … performance has a negative influence on clubs' sporting performance, while sporting performance does not have a negative influence …
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This paper analyzes national and regional efficiency and total factor productivity of Spanish hotels. The nonparametric … frontier DEA methodology has been used to assess the levels of efficiency of the hotel firms and Malmquist indices to estimate …. The results also show the rates of change in productivity in the period and its main determinants: efficiency change and …
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