compared to a one‐stage approach in measuring a football club's efficiency. Moreover it provides best practice benchmarks for … the research sample which supports football officials to orient themselves to the right clubs. Design … efficiency of English Premier League football clubs from an off‐field and an on‐field perspective. The results are compared with …

football clubs. Design/methodology/approach – This paper, drawn from 22 semi‐structured interviews with key individuals in the … English professional football (soccer) industry, employs an interpretivist approach of semi‐structured interviews of key … personnel to provide an account of the business practices prevalent in the English football industry. Findings – The findings …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study if and how the evaluation of the boards in the top Nordic male football … on the following functions of football boards: review of business plan, strategy, objective and budget; discussion on …

. Originality/value – The paper confirms empirically that football clubs that float on the stock market are in better financial …

expand internationally? Design/methodology/approach – The study involves four football cases for the 2009‐2010 season: Paris … Saint‐Germain and Nike, Olympique de Marseille and Adidas, Olympique Lyonnais and Umbro, and the French national football …

the decision-making and implementation processes involved in an advisory programme was performed in ten selected football …

foundations for the first two divisions of English football. Findings The present study illustrates empirically that strategic … football clubs’ charitable foundations, and does so by employing a multi-paradigm perspective on strategy formulation and …

football league and its impact on clubs’ brand image. Design/methodology/approach – The first part of this research discusses … for this particular sector will be outlined. The CSR values adopted by sport clubs are observed in first division football … considerations to professional football clubs and argue that Keller's model of customer‐based brand equity has to be reconsidered for …

on individuals (i.e. managers) with the meso-domain's and macro-domain's focus (i.e. leagues/football clubs and the socio …-political environment, respectively). The examination takes place within the context of English football and in relation to the … charitable foundation managers of the top two divisions of English football. The interviews were recorded and transcribed …