Research in the field of customer discrimination has received relatively little attention even if the theory of discrimination suggests that customer discrimination may exist in the long run whereas employer and employee discrimination may not. This paper examines customer discrimination...

Research in the field of customer discrimination has received relatively little attention even if the theory of discrimination suggests that customer discrimination may exist in the long run whereas employer and employee discrimination may not. This paper examines customer discrimination...

Eine Reihe von Autoren - vor allem im deutschsprachigen - Raum begründet die Notwendigkeit regulatorischer Eingriffe in Profisportmärkte damit, dass der Wettbewerb auf diesen Märkten systematisch versage. Als wesentliche Ursache für Wettbewerbsprobleme innerhalb dieser Ligen oder...

A simple decision theoretic model shows the doping incentives for a member of a professional sports team. Depending on the detection probability and the punishment, a sportsman dopes not at all, at a medium or at the maximal level. The whole team has a higher incentive than an individual team...

We study the impact of managers on the success of professional soccer teams using data from the German "Bundesliga". We evaluate the performance impact of individual managers by estimating regression models that include both team and manager fixed effects, where we are exploiting the high...

During the last few decades, the role of the service sector in the overall economic activities has become more significant in many countries, particularly the most developed ones. This has provoked increased scholars' interest so they have begun researching many service markets more extensively....

Introduction / Mark Dodds, Kevin Heisey and Aila Ahonen -- Part 1: International Sport Business Strategy Export of National Sport Leagues / Herbert Woratschek, Guido Schafmeister and Tim Ströbel -- Sport Business Intelligence and Data-Driven Decisions: The Case of AKK Sports Ltd and WRC...

Die Führungsforschung hat das Thema der Inspirational Leadership bis heute vernachlässigt. Dies ist neben der Komplexität und Interdisziplinarität der Thematik besonders dadurch begründet, dass in weiten Teilen der Scientific Community davon ausgegangen wird, dass Inspirational Leadership...

This study examines whether there are gender-specific differences in regard to physical attractiveness of professional tennis players and their performance. For this purpose, the top 100 male and female tennis players of the tennis world ranking in 2014 are examined. Athletic performance is...

Die vorliegende empirische Dissertation untersucht verschiedene Forschungsfragen im Bereich der Sportökonomie. Die empirischen Analysen werden anhand von individuell zusammengestellten Datensätzen mit Informationen zur finanziellen und sportlichen Leistungsfähigkeit der vier großen...

Machine generated contents note: Prologue 1 1 The Son of Jesús 9 2 The Chess Champion 23 3 The British Tax Exile 41 4 An East End Scandal 53 5 The Prime Minister's Men 67 6 The 100-to-1 Shot 79 7 The Switzerland of South America 93 8 "Todo Pasa" 107 9 Buenos Aires to Manchester 121 10 "I Want...