explores the phenomenon of Inspiration Leadership in the context of professional football. To do so, a multiple case study … design approach has been used to analyse the leadership behaviour of coaches from the highest Swiss football league. By … context of professional football can be actively influenced and shaped by the coach. The concluding Inspirational Leadership …

We investigated the impacts of president longevity and the geographic orientation of owners on team performance and on … tier of French men's football over the 1994-2016 period (n = 4918 observations). To do so, we used a counterfactual based … on the evolution of the team position over the last three games leading to the leader change and estimate linear …

That football Head Coaches will be dismissed for poor performance and will quit when they have better outside options … literature indicates little improvement in team performance when one coach replaces another. Equally, Head Coaches may have few … and quits are more common in Italy and Spain than in Germany and France, suggesting institutions may be important. We …

football. Based on a novel two-stage estimation procedure, we find clear evidence for heterogeneity across teams. In a first …. A team’s group size is positively correlated with its memberships (ˆρ =0.61, p<0.01), fan clubs (ˆρ =0.59, p<0.01), and … merchandising revenues (ˆρ =0.49, p<0.05). Noteworthy, no similar correlations can be found for a team’s hometown population which …