Purpose - This study aims to address the challenge many organizational leaders face in fostering workforce cohesion. Focusing on the context of sports club volunteering, this study investigates how leaders can enhance group cohesion among volunteers. The study findings provide valuable insights...

The impact of hierarchical differentiation on team effectiveness is heavily discussed in scientific research with strong argumentslined up on both the pro and the contra sides. To contribute to this debate, I investigated the relationship between a specificfacet of hierarchical differentiation,...

This study explores market value depreciation among soccer players across the top five European leagues, addressing a critical gap in the sports finance literature by focusing on post-prime valuation dynamics. Leveraging a dataset from the 2023/2024 season, player market values and attributes...

Our study examined and compared the type, process, conditions, and consequences of radical and incremental innovations in community sport organizations (CSOs), which are a type of nonprofit membership association. Interviews were conducted with the president (or representative) of 14 CSOs...

This study investigated the readiness of non-football sports clubs in the Balkans to adopt sustainability reporting under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), addressing a gap in a sector with limited regulatory alignment. Unlike previous corporate-focused CSR research, it...

We propose a fundamental valuation model for sports clubs and stadia using discounted (adjusted) revenues. We argue that a sports club is a "quasi firm" that aims to balance budgets, achieve an efficient allocation of financial resources, and maximize revenues. Under this objective the sports...

The purpose of this study is to explore the approach of a sustainable governance in terms of sustainability strategies that firms have been implementing towards different stakeholders. The study adopts the stakeholder theory lens to advance research on the area. A qualitative approach was used...

The concept of impact, referring to short-term effects resulting from the implementation of sustainability practices and initiatives, and its connection to the longer term perception of sustainability for the brand, is becoming increasingly pervasive in various businesses, including the sports...

This study investigates the CSR communication and reporting practice of professional football clubs to examine the range, variety, and visibility of their CSR information communicated to stakeholders. Adopting a case study strategy, this study focuses on Juventus football club (hereby Juventus)....

Background Understanding the motivations behind consumer engagement on sports club social media can help clubs and marketers tailor their strategies to better connect with fans, fostering deeper loyalty and more meaningful interactions. By identifying what drives fans to engage-whether it is a...

This study delves into the financial strategies of Italian Serie A football clubs, focusing on the relationship between revenues obtained through the sale of players' tags and those from broadcasting and media rights. Using Resource Dependence Theory (RDT) as lens, this research aims to...

The inception of financial fair play (FFP) regulations in 2011 prompted debates about their potential impact on competitive balance within European football. Divisive arguments emerged: some anticipated a negative influence, foreseeing a decline in competitive balance, while others posited a...

The aim of the paper is to analyze relations between perceived quality, service convenience and satisfaction of squash customers to present implications for managers who address parents enrolling their children for extracurricular activities with their services. Applying the research framework...

The paper analyzes the influence of profitability on on-field performance in the English Premier League. The paper achieves this goal by collecting on-field data for the seasons 14/15 to 20/21 from the Premier League website and financial data from the Deloitte Annual Football Review....

In the past three decades, the robust capital market has led to the accelerating commercialisation of the football industry, and the financial operations of football clubs have gradually entered the limelight. This study aims to construct a financial risk assessment model applicable to the...

Guided by the uses and gratification theory (UGT), this research aims to investigate the influence of gratification (i.e., personal, social, and tension release gratification) sought from social networking sites (SNS) on customer engagement behaviour of satellite fans. Additionally, this...

This study evaluated discrimination against children with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) in Swedish sports clubs through a field experiment. Two fictitious fathers sent emails to 193 top-division clubs in football, floorball, ice hockey, and handball, one disclosing his son's T1DM condition....

Sports fans participate in supporting sports teams by demonstrating various attitudinal behaviors such as loyalty, purchase intention, and stadium attendance. However, although the literature indicates that sports fans who are fanatics can demonstrate advanced attitudinal behavior such as...

The author talks about the evolution of the football system from the perspectives of the markets, sport, and its centrality in a state's economy and internationally. The paper analyzes its exponential growth, which makes a financial change and improvement to respond to important competition...

Background: This paper is the first-ever discussion of sport logistics as an intersection of the academic disciplines of logistics and sport management. Methods: It reviews past literature and states that logistics in sport is widely overlooked in academic literature. It illustrates the...