This study explores market value depreciation among soccer players across the top five European leagues, addressing a critical gap in the sports finance literature by focusing on post-prime valuation dynamics. Leveraging a dataset from the 2023/2024 season, player market values and attributes...

Our study examined and compared the type, process, conditions, and consequences of radical and incremental innovations in community sport organizations (CSOs), which are a type of nonprofit membership association. Interviews were conducted with the president (or representative) of 14 CSOs...

The impact of hierarchical differentiation on team effectiveness is heavily discussed in scientific research with strong argumentslined up on both the pro and the contra sides. To contribute to this debate, I investigated the relationship between a specificfacet of hierarchical differentiation,...

This study delves into the financial strategies of Italian Serie A football clubs, focusing on the relationship between revenues obtained through the sale of players' tags and those from broadcasting and media rights. Using Resource Dependence Theory (RDT) as lens, this research aims to...

The inception of financial fair play (FFP) regulations in 2011 prompted debates about their potential impact on competitive balance within European football. Divisive arguments emerged: some anticipated a negative influence, foreseeing a decline in competitive balance, while others posited a...

The purpose of this study is to explore the approach of a sustainable governance in terms of sustainability strategies that firms have been implementing towards different stakeholders. The study adopts the stakeholder theory lens to advance research on the area. A qualitative approach was used...

The concept of impact, referring to short-term effects resulting from the implementation of sustainability practices and initiatives, and its connection to the longer term perception of sustainability for the brand, is becoming increasingly pervasive in various businesses, including the sports...

This study investigates the CSR communication and reporting practice of professional football clubs to examine the range, variety, and visibility of their CSR information communicated to stakeholders. Adopting a case study strategy, this study focuses on Juventus football club (hereby Juventus)....

Background Understanding the motivations behind consumer engagement on sports club social media can help clubs and marketers tailor their strategies to better connect with fans, fostering deeper loyalty and more meaningful interactions. By identifying what drives fans to engage-whether it is a...

[Vorwort der Herausgeber:] Die Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Sportökonomie im Juni 2022 war in mehrfacher Hinsicht ein besonderes Ereignis: Zum einen konnte nach den mühsamen Pandemie-Jahren zum ersten Mal wieder in Präsenz getagt werden. Zum anderen handelte es sich um die mittlerweile 25....

Background: This paper is the first-ever discussion of sport logistics as an intersection of the academic disciplines of logistics and sport management. Methods: It reviews past literature and states that logistics in sport is widely overlooked in academic literature. It illustrates the...

The paper analyzes the influence of profitability on on-field performance in the English Premier League. The paper achieves this goal by collecting on-field data for the seasons 14/15 to 20/21 from the Premier League website and financial data from the Deloitte Annual Football Review....

Guided by the uses and gratification theory (UGT), this research aims to investigate the influence of gratification (i.e., personal, social, and tension release gratification) sought from social networking sites (SNS) on customer engagement behaviour of satellite fans. Additionally, this...

This study evaluated discrimination against children with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) in Swedish sports clubs through a field experiment. Two fictitious fathers sent emails to 193 top-division clubs in football, floorball, ice hockey, and handball, one disclosing his son's T1DM condition....

Sports fans participate in supporting sports teams by demonstrating various attitudinal behaviors such as loyalty, purchase intention, and stadium attendance. However, although the literature indicates that sports fans who are fanatics can demonstrate advanced attitudinal behavior such as...

The author talks about the evolution of the football system from the perspectives of the markets, sport, and its centrality in a state's economy and internationally. The paper analyzes its exponential growth, which makes a financial change and improvement to respond to important competition...

Does social capital always promote solidarity and democracy, or are social networks such as sports clubs also vulnerable to populism? We exploit quasi-experimental variation in sports club membership in German cities. Sports clubs are booming in cities with successful soccer teams which pass the...

The increasing influence of international sports organizations in international commerce has sparked the interest of worldwide regulators. The FIFA corruption scandal highlights the need for effective regulation in this field. As a non-profit association registered in Switzerland, FIFA operates...

Sporting associations that act as regulators and are also active in organizing sporting events are well-established in many sports. However, given that there is a risk that they might exploit their regulatory power to foreclose organizers of rival events, the question arises as to how far EU...

Does social capital always promote solidarity and democracy, or are social networks such as sports clubs also vulnerable to populism? We exploit quasi-experimental variation in sports club membership in German cities. Sports clubs are booming in cities with successful soccer teams which pass the...