That football Head Coaches will be dismissed for poor performance and will quit when they have better outside options … bad luck and may find it difficult to identify and attract talented managers from other clubs. Indeed, most of the … literature indicates little improvement in team performance when one coach replaces another. Equally, Head Coaches may have few …

leaders and organisational performance. Using game-by-game linked employer-employee data for professional football in four … reweight teams' performance prior to the departure of a Coach so that trends in team performance prior to the departure match … spells which ended with a Coach remaining in post. Consistent with theory, Head Coach quits have little or no impact on team …

We investigated the impacts of president longevity and the geographic orientation of owners on team performance and on … tier of French men's football over the 1994-2016 period (n = 4918 observations). To do so, we used a counterfactual based … on the evolution of the team position over the last three games leading to the leader change and estimate linear …

decisions on team performance. We document that managers’ perseverance in playing style is positively related to team outcomes …Using detailed tournament data from four sources on 76 distinct managers coaching 34 teams in 1,580 matches covering …-powered incentives industry where managers receive frequent feedback, our results corroborate and help qualify the “managers matter” view …