This paper investigates the formation of unofficial fan groups in the S.League, Singapore’s professional football league, and their fascination with the term ‘ultras’. Using data drawn from interviews with members of two unofficial fan groups in Singapore, and incorporating the...

This paper was written to explore the rationale behind English football clubs' entry to Chinese market. English football clubs were among the first to enter and have so far the best business practice in China. Italian football clubs enjoy the same popularity in China, however, they had rather...

We analyze a dynamic model of strategic interaction between a professional sport league that organizes a tournament, the teams competing to win it, and the broadcasters paying for the rights to televise it. Teams and broadcasters maximize expected profits, while the league's objective may be...

The purpose of this article is to develop models that can help team selectors build talented teams with minimum possible spending. In this study, we build several predictive models for predicting the selection of a player in the Indian Premier League, a cricket league, based on each player’s...

This Article argues that the government should break up both Major League Baseball and the NFL to provide for competing economic entities in each sport. Part I details the harm monopoly sports leagues cause in several different markets and explains why a competitive league structure can correct...

The 1997 collective bargaining agreement between the Major League Baseball (MLB) owners and players' union introduced a luxury tax on club payrolls. The purpose of the tax was to restrain spending by the highest revenue producing clubs, thus enhancing completive balance. The 2003 collective...

In the literature, CSR has been studied as a mean to reconnect sport organizations and society. Nevertheless, little attention has been paid to Porter and Kramer's "shared value". Therefore, after presenting the management of sport organisations as well as CSR, this article will be drawn on...

Outside of an earlier set of research questions, it was amateur football club focus group data which revealed previously unidentified research questions of key interest to participants: how do amateur sports organisations weather a crisis for survival? What are the roles of leadership which...

A dramatic surge in revenues from TV broadcasting and brand-selling forced modern football clubs, simultaneously involved in domestic and European competitions, to operate in a new environment. In response, the Union of European Football Associations introduced the Financial Fair Play...