Companies increasingly shift from hierarchical to team-based organizational structures. Scholars and practitioners … performance time-wise, but also team organization, without reducing the originality of solutions. Hence, leadership encouragements … can serve as a cost-effective tool to foster team performance. …

the game, measured by the referee's assignment of cards, with a significantly higher probability if his team is behind the …

This paper examines the relation between crowd support and home advantage in professional football in making use of a … football divisions during the 2019/2020 season. We find that there is a reduced home advantage in the first division, whereas … advantage and the heterogeneity across divisions are not sensitive to a variety of performance, location, and team covariates …

this incentive mechanism is reinvigorated after a management change - but only when the team is sufficiently homogenous … on coach dismissals in the German football league where the selection of players is indeed a key task of the coach …. Indeed, we find substantial evidence that coach replacements enhance team performance (only) in homogenous teams. Moreover …

. Focusing on football (soccer), we built a novel dataset of national teams of European countries that have participated in the … between the genetic scores of every players'origins in the team. Genetic endowments for each player are recovered using a …

universe of professional football matches played out in Germany's top three football leagues over the period 2011-2015. To …This paper quantifies how much of violent crime in society can be attributed to football-related violence. We study the … violent crimes on days with and without professional football matches while controlling for date heterogeneity, weather, and …

show that if the choice of leadership in a team is imprecise or noisy - which may arguably be the case if appointment … selected as team members. On the contrary, and in line with what has been called the "Apollo effect," a "dream team" consisting … of unambiguously higher performing individuals may perform worse in terms of team output than a group composed of lower …