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Talent and/or Popularity - What Does it Take to Be a Superstar
Franck, Egon; Nüesch, Stephan - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2007
We show that both talent and popularity significantly contribute to stars’ market values in German soccer. The talent-versus-popularity controversy on the sources of stardom goes back to Rosen (1981) and Adler (1985). All attempts to resolve the controversy empirically face the difficulty of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005463838
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Talent and/or Popularity - What Does it Take to Be a Superstar
Franck, Egon; Nüesch, Stephan - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2007
We show that both talent and popularity significantly contribute to stars’ market values in German soccer. The talent-versus-popularity controversy on the sources of stardom goes back to Rosen (1981) and Adler (1985). All attempts to resolve the controversy empirically face the difficulty of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739933
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Talent, Past Consumption and/or Popularity - Are German Soccer Celebrities Rosen or Adler Stars?
Franck, Egon; Nüesch, Stephan - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2005
Based on the competing theories of superstar formation proposed by Rosen (1981) and Adler (1985) it is controversial if firsthand observable talent or other factors like past consumption and popularity influence stardom. This article investigates the emergence of superstars in German soccer. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752144
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Local Heroes and Superstars - An Empirical Analysis of Star Attraction in German Soccer
Brandes, Leif; Franck, Egon; Nuesch, Stephan - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2006
Recent studies of the demand for sports clearly indicate that stars play an important role in promoting fan interest. However, on theoretical grounds it is controversial if a starÕs talent superiority and/or a starÕs popularity drive match attendance and hence increase gate revenues. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752145
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Collective vs. Individual Sale of TV Rights in League Sports
Falconieri, Sonia; Palomino, Frederic; Sakovics, Jozsef - School of Economics, University of Edinburgh - 2004
In many countries, the collective sale of TV rights by sports leagues has been challenged by the antitrust authorities. In several cases, however, leagues won in court, on the ground that sport cannot be considered a standard good. In this paper, we investigate the conditions under which the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005086761
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Local Heroes and Superstars - An Empirical Analysis of Star Attraction in German Soccer
Brandes, Leif; Franck, Egon; Nuesch, Stephan - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2006
Recent studies of the demand for sports clearly indicate that stars play an important role in promoting fan interest. However, on theoretical grounds it is controversial if a starÕs talent superiority and/or a starÕs popularity drive match attendance and hence increase gate revenues. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005634655
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Talent management in SMEs : an exploratory study of Polish companies
Pauli, Urban; Pocztowski, Aleksy - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 7 (2019) 4, pp. 199-218
Objective: The main goal of the study is to identify and map practices of TM in SMEs and search for common patterns. The main questions during the design of the research were: How do SMEs define talent and what are its indicators? What is the approach to TM in SMEs? What kind of activities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012515988
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Risk and the CEO Market: Why Do Some Large Firms Hire Highly-Paid, Low-Talent CEOs?
Edmans, Alex; Gabaix, Xavier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper presents a market equilibrium model of CEO assignment, pay and incentives under risk aversion and … distorted by the agency problem as firms involving higher risk or disutility choose less talented CEOs. Such firms also pay … higher salaries in the cross-section, but economy-wide increases in risk or the disutility of being a CEO (e.g. due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530386
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Talent discovery, layoff risk and unemployment insurance
Pagano, Marco; Picariello, Luca - 2018
, but also increases layoff risk. Firms cannot insure workers against this risk if they compete fiercely for talent. In this … case, the more risk-averse workers will choose less quality-revealing jobs. This lowers expected productivity and salaries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011918894