This paper develops a framework for illustrating why sponsored sports entities, the "sponsees", often struggle to … experts from sponsors, sponsees, and sports agencies, we identify six sources of inefficiencies at the sponsee side that can … management's "degree of professionalism". While previous research in sports sponsorship has concentrated mainly on the sponsor …

Comparisons between European and North American sports leagues have occurred over the years. In this paper, we attempt …

that the professional team sports industry, the only industry with substantial experience in the regulation of compensation … arrangements, provides valuable insights for the regulation of executive pay. Based on the experience from professional sports …

This paper outlines and compares the organizational structure of major sports leagues, explores the reasoning behind … their formation, and derives implications for salary caps in European football. To understand why sports leagues have … developed a specific organizational structure, one must take the economic peculiarities of team sports leagues into …

This paper outlines and compares the organizational structure of major sports leagues, explores the reasoning behind … their formation, and derives implications for salary caps in European football. To understand why sports leagues have … developed a specific organizational structure, one must take the economic peculiarities of team sports leagues into …

This paper applies contest theory to provide an integrated framework of a team sports league and analyses the …

This paper develops a contest model of a professional sports league in which clubs maximize a weighted sum of profits …

In this paper, we provide an analysis of the principal economic issues in the professional team sports industry. We …

Comparisons between European and North American sports leagues have occurred over the years. In this paper, we attempt …