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Claudio Ballor

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Managerial Ability, Players’ Cultural Diversity, and Sporting and Economic Performance in English Soccer

2012

We use a large homemade database on professional soccer in England to estimate the relevance of managerial ability on performance and the managerial skills in keeping up cultural diversity. The team manager faces a set of very complex tasks. Not only he is the head coach of the soccer team, thus influencing sporting performance, but he can also have an impact on performance, by improving economic efficiency or by limiting the organization innovation in order to foster the creation of organizational routines. The sporting competitive advantage translates into economic and financial performance; therefore the manager is a dominant voice in the financial viability of the club, too. We also mea…

Economic efficiencyComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSIONAttendancemanagerial capabilities performance of soccer clubs cultural diversity and xenophobia in sportsCompetitive advantageSkills managementOrder (exchange)Cultural diversityCultural diversity sport economicsManagerial ability Cultural diversity team performanceBusinessClubMarketingSet (psychology)Settore SECS-P/08 - Economia E Gestione Delle ImpreseInternational Journal of Marketing Studies
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The Role of Financial and Managerial Variables on the Policy towards Home-grown Players in English Soccer

2012

The training and development of young players both as athletes and individuals is one of the task soccer governing bodies assign to professional soccer team in order to fully exploit the social aspects of sport activities. Recently UEFA imposed new rules to improve the use of home-grown players. We analyze a panel data of English Premier and Championship league clubs for the seasons 2001-02 to 2005-06 in order to understand what clubs characteristics lead to the employment of young players in the team during official matches. Sport commercialization and the employment of star players have been considered harmful to this role. Our findings suggest that, counter-intuitively, economic and comm…

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