...Vojtech Kotrba; Adela Striskova Purpose This article examines how cultural and skill diversity are associated with the performance of professional League of Legends teams in tournaments. Design/methodology/approach Using data from the 2018–2023 seasons, the study combines performance metrics...

...John Nowland; Jomo Sankara Purpose Professional football clubs, like other businesses, need to make investments in both human capital and fixed capital. We examine how investments in players, managers and stadiums drive football club performance. Design/methodology/approach Using data from...

... literature in the field for understanding revenue structures and performance in European national football leagues. Performance Cluster analysis Business model League clustering National football leagues Table 1 Summary of the literature review on sport and efficiency Level...

... evaluated the determinants of coaching replacements as well as their effect on team performance. Findings Statistical results revealed that coaching survival is significantly determined by a negative spell of three to four games, parallel competitions and performance expectations with three games...

...Dino Ruta; Luca Lorenzon; Emiliano Sironi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to verify the theoretical assumption about a weaker role of internal governance structures (namely, board and CEO) in determining sporting and financial performances in highly concentrated club ownership environment...

..., an efficiency analysis was conducted thanks to the data envelopment analysis method. This measure of performance was supplemented with the identification of productivity and demand shocks to identify whether clubs suffered from such shock or changed their strategy. It enables to precise the nature...

.... Furthermore, it analyses to what degree the use of younger talents and foreign players influence the performances of clubs. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical data are from Norwegian elite clubs, and come from two web sites: www.altomfotball and www.nettavisen.no. The analyses were done...

...Emma Soane; Christina Butler; Emma Stanton Purpose – Effective leadership is important to performance in both organisational and sporting arenas. The authors theorised that follower personality would influence perceptions of leadership, and that perceived effective leadership would be associated...