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Sölgén, Samuel, and Daniel Wiklund. "Customer Relationship Management Strategy in Swedish Football Clubs." Thesis, Mälardalen University, School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-6071.

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Aim of the Thesis: To investigate the practice of using a CRM strategy in football clubs by comparing earlier successful and unsuccessful CRM implementations by football clubs and study fan relationship theories in a large Swedish football club, thereby presenting guidelines on how to further develop a CRM strategy in a Swedish football club.

 

Methodology: A quantitative approach and a qualitative approach have been used, first collecting empirical data on supporter views through a questionnaire further strengthened by gathering empirical data through an interview. The quantitative data has been presented with descriptive statistics and the qualitative data has been analyzed using a realist approach.

 

Theoretical Perspectives: A literature review has been conducted and resulted in a theoretical framework illustrating the concepts of benefits and risks with CRM, fan relationship marketing, CRM implementation process, CRM systems in football clubs, and supporter loyalty. A research model, “FRM implementation process” has been developed from the theoretical findings. 

 

Empirical Data: The quantitative empirical data has been collected by distributing a questionnaire to supporters of AIK Fotboll. The qualitative empirical data has been collected through interviews with the head of sales and marketing within AIK Fotboll AB.

 

Conclusion: A CRM strategy can benefit Swedish football clubs in areas such as to better capture customer data, better communication between the club and its supporters and provide customized offers as long as the supporters are informed about the changes in strategy. In order for Swedish football clubs to successfully implement a CRM strategy they need to ensure adequate financing and management commitment since an unsuccessful implementation can be devastating to a Swedish football club’s finances.

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Harris-Reeves, Brooke. "Behaviour Management Strategies of Beginning AFL Coaches." Thesis, Griffith University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366567.

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This thesis investigates the behaviour management practices used by beginning AFL coaches. It examines beginning coaches’ perceptions of their role, and whether they believe it is their responsibility to manage athlete behaviour. The nature of coaching is multifaceted requiring them to take on many responsibilities. Consequently, coaches can have both a positive and negative effect on the athletes they train. Negative effects range from athlete drop out, injuries, and loss of confidence. On the other hand, positive effects include engaged and motivated athletes, increased self esteem and low attrition rates. It is for this reason that coaches need to ensure they create positive environments for athletes. A postmodern ethnographic approach was used to explore the experiences of AFL beginning coaching candidates. Data was collected via questionnaires, interviews and observations. Data analysis techniques were employed to identify themes and issues around beginning coach’s perceptions, strategies and practices in managing athlete behaviour. Analysis also included the use of a methodological tool that was developed, pilot tested and implemented as a mechanism for evaluating the effectiveness of behaviour management practices.
Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Griffith Business School
Griffith Business School
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Hudson, David. "Marketing in English professional football clubs." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/4083.

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Al-Tauqi, Mansour Sultan. "Organizational effectiveness, the case of Oman Football Association." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/mq36655.pdf.

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Hoogstra, Joshua R. "Emergency Management Standards for NCAA Division I-A Football Stadia." ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1023.

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In the best of times, emergency managers of athletic event venues struggle with the responsibilities of venue security. The possibility of terrorist threats exacerbates the situation, especially when security threats can involve a critical mass of spectators at an event. Emergency managers at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) athletic venues were the focus of this study. The overarching research question examined whether the minimum core competencies and qualifications for NCAA emergency managers were perceived by the same managers as being sufficient and in alignment with the work that is expected of the position. Research questions were designed to study what practices emergency managers in the field deemed as the most important minimum work qualifications necessary to competently perform their duties. A quantitative survey instrument was administered to 120 Division I-A football stadium emergency managers. A 42 percent response rate was obtained. Data were collected and analyzed using a 3-round Delphi technique. Data were solicited by an online survey for the first 2 rounds, and either online or by mail for the final round. A total of 50 core competencies were identified with a high rate of agreement (96 percent) among participants. Findings indicate that command level emergency management related experience is vitally important with developing the most competent stadium emergency manager, while advanced educational training opportunities available through the Department of Homeland Security and National Center for Sports Security ranked low. Positive social change implications stemming from this study include a greater understanding of skills required to secure sporting venues, thereby potentially increasing the level of safety to spectators and reducing the possibility of terroristic threat.
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Brugger, Alexander J. "Earnings Management in European Football: How Effective is Financial Fair Play?" Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1169.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of the new Financial Fair Play regulations set forth by the United European Football Association (UEFA) in 2011 on levels of earnings management in European professional football. The Financial Fair Play regulations were imposed as a means of controlling the exorbitant amounts of debt and player’s wages that have threatened the financial stability of many professional football clubs throughout Europe. While UEFA has boasted early success of the new regulations, citing reduced aggregate losses of all football clubs, reduced overdue payables, and less outstanding debt, this study examines levels of discretionary accruals before and after the new regulations were instated to determine if teams are managing earnings to avoid UEFA sanctions. This study collected data from 137 different teams competing in UEFA competition from 2007 to 2013. Discretionary accruals were estimated using the Jones model (1991) as modified by Kothari et al. (2005). The findings of this study were largely inconclusive as a significant difference could not be found in levels of abnormal discretionary accruals before and after the introduction of Financial Fair Play. These findings may suggest that UEFA has succeeded in creating regulations that have curbed an era of extreme leveraging and club losses while simultaneously restricting additional opportunities for club owners to manage earnings that reduce both earnings quality and financial transparency. Overall, the findings from this study highlight the need for more widely available financial information from European football clubs and additional years of financial data under the new regulations.
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Rosenquist, Adrian, and Peter Wiahl. "Playing fair : Swedish football clubs´ social responsibility." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-15008.

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Sports impact on society and how sports activities can contribute to the well-being of individuals have been studied before. Football is a sport which has been studied a lot regarding the football clubs’ impact on the society. These studies have mainly been done on larger and professional football clubs in Europe. However, at the moment there is no study on smaller clubs in lower divisions. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to analyze how, larger and smaller, Swedish football clubs work to contribute to social sustainability through their work with their youths. This was done by interviewing key personnel in a number of selected Swedish football clubs. The result was analyzed by using our modified stakeholder model based on the Salience model described by Mitchell et al. (1997). This model describes different stakeholder groups that could be salient to a firm, which we apply on football clubs. In our findings we discovered that youths were one of the most important stakeholders to a football club. They were strengthened by the local authorities and their parents. Furthermore, in our conclusion we found that there are important stakeholders who affect the ability of the football clubs’ ambition to take social responsibility.
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MOSCA, HUGO MOTTA BACELLO. "INSTITUTIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS WHICH AFFECT PROFESSIONAL MANAGEMENT UPON CLUBS FOOTBALL DEPARTMENTS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2006. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=9440@1.

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A prática de esportes tem sido referendada como uma grande solução para problemas sociais diversos. Dentre todos os esportes, é inegável a influência que o futebol exerce no contexto brasileiro. Entretanto, sua importância como atividade econômica e o conseqüente fomento social para a população ainda não é reconhecida. O futebol promoveu mais transformações, ao longo dos últimos cem anos, do que sofreu dentro das quatro linhas. Foi utilizado como entretenimento pelo povo, como mecanismo de manobra pelos governos e como ferramenta de poder pelos seus diretores, até esbarrar nas pressões de profissionalização de sua gestão, tradicionalmente amadora. Fundamentando-se na Teoria Institucional e, mais especificamente, na corrente do neo-institucionalismo (DIMAGGIO e POWELL, 1991), este estudo tem como objetivo identificar os aspectos relativos ao campo organizacional do futebol que constituem obstáculos ou elementos facilitadores do processo de profissionalização da gestão do futebol nos clubes. A Teoria Institucional ajuda a entender as pressões que afetam a profissionalização da gestão, na medida em que permite melhor compreensão das relações entre os diferentes atores do denominado campo organizacional do futebol. A metodologia do estudo constituiu-se de pesquisa documental e entrevista com representantes das principais entidades que compõem o campo organizacional analisado. Os principais resultados apontam que a percepção da necessidade de profissionalização da gestão do futebol dos clubes já está institucionalizada entre os atores, e sua implementação pode apresentar impactos sociais, econômicos e financeiros bastante positivos para a sociedade. Entretanto, este objetivo ainda enfrenta entraves práticos, arraigados nos mais de cem anos de amadorismo, conservadorismo e oligarquia que têm dominado a gestão do futebol brasileiro.
The practice of sports has proven to be a great solution to several social problems. It is undeniable, among all sports, the strength of football s influence in Brazilian life-context. However, its importance as an economical activity e and its capability to social improvements has not yet been recognized. Football has promoted more changes in society in the past century than it has suffered on the pitch itself. It has been used as entertainment by the people, as a manipulation mechanism by the government, as a power tool by its directors. It has, finally, stumbled into the pressures of professionalizing its traditionally amateur management practices. Based on the Institutional Theory and, more specifically, on the neo-institutionalism line of study (DIMAGGIO e POWEL, 1991), this research seeks to identify the aspects related to the organizational facet of football, which create obstacles or facilitating elements of the professionalization process of this sport s category within the clubs. The Institutional Theory helps to understand the relationships amongst the various actors within the organizational field of football. Study methodology was based upon secondary research and indepth interviews with key representatives of the analyzed organizational field main entities. The main conclusions suggest that the perception of a need for football management professionalization in Brazilian clubs is already recognized by the different actors and its implementation could result in positive social, economic and financial impacts on society. However, the means to reach this objective still face several obstacles, all of which are rooted on the amateurism, conservationism and oligarchism that have been dominating the football management field.
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Moore, Neil Gregory. "Changing business management practices : an examination of the English professional football industry." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.533961.

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Gosnell, Joan. "Kickoffs and Kickbacks: The 1951 Football Scandal at William and Mary." W&M ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625632.

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Herskedal, K. M. "Exploring the managerial cycle of professional football league managers in England and Norway." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2017. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/6722/.

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To gain a critical understanding of the lived challenges within the managerial cycle (recruitment, employment, termination) in professional league football, the research initially followed a qualitative approach in the form of semi-structured interviews. A total of 16 professional league managers completed a face-to-face interview using open ended questions, allowing them to share their true perspectives (Dale, 1996). The interview schedule concerned the managers' perceptions of challenges faced within the role, strategies to deal with the challenges, specific skills and qualities possessed, and future challenges within the role. Data were analysed via deductive and inductive content analysis (Biddle, Markland, Gilbourne, Chatzisarantis, & Sparkes, 2001; Côté, Samela, & Russel, 1995), and emerging themes were subjected to member checking (Sparkes, 1998). The range of experiences revealed a number of proposals for how to deal with cultural, organisational and personal related challenges. The managers’ ability to delegate responsibilities and to adapt effectively to changing environments seemed critical to avoid loops of accumulating problems. Unprofessional attitudes to recruitment and sackings seemed embedded in the culture. The eagerness for short-term results was perceived as a threat to sustainability in managerial work currently and in the future. The managerial cycle model was developed on the basis of Study One findings. Study Two aimed to examine the managerial cycle model by bringing in the internal (senior management and support staff) and external (Norwegian Football Association, League Managers’ Associations) key stakeholder views on the training, development and support of managers within the various phases of the managerial cycle (recruitment, employment and termination). A total of 21 internal (n=18) and external (n=3) key stakeholders completed a semi-structured interview, which was analysed via both deductive and inductive content analysis. The findings gave insight in senior management experiences regarding managerial recruitment and dismissals. Support staff members reported that both frequent changes of managers detracted the ability to work professionally and longitudinally. They also suggested that the managers’ receptivity to support was reduced in periods of high pressure. Further, managers were expected by their leaders to take care of their own development. These findings suggest that managers need to be skilled in self-directed learning to avoid superficiality in work. Preparing managers for the ability to adapt effectively to contextual changes appears to not be sufficiently integrated into the current formal training of managers. Study Three employed a case study approach to critically examine how the managerial lived experience might change over time. Three managers engaged in one Norwegian PL-club (full season) and one manager from an English League One club (four months) were regularly interviewed during various phases of the managerial cycle (recruitment, employment, termination). Ethnographic principles were employed in the study that aimed to better understand how the managerial experience might change across situations and conditions. The managerial experiences changed along with sporting results (ups and downs), and differed in levels of trust and communication internally. The findings argue that shared understanding and trust across organisational levels are needed to facilitate internal stability and long-term efficiency, meaning that the skills to establish these conditions are crucial for sustained sporting and organisational success. All the managers experienced challenges at cultural, organisational and personal levels related to the different phases of the managerial cycle and technical (understanding across professions), human, and conceptual skills were needed to deal with role related challenges. Given the complexity of the role, and the continuous and rapid changes that managers are exposed to, the current study suggests that contextual insights are needed to understand and ultimately advise or prepare managers sufficiently for their future role(s). Managers need consistency in their approach to gain trust from internal stakeholders, and sporting success seems to facilitate the support. To establish managerial consistency, the manager requires a clear philosophy based on cultural, organisational and personal understandings, combined with humbleness toward knowledge.
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Dorneman, James D. "Analysis of concussion management policies and procedures among athletic trainers in the four divisions of NCAA collegiate football." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10450/10952.

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Hochstedler, Jeremy H. "Incorporating spatiotemporal machine learning into Major League Baseball and the National Football League." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112451.

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Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, System Design and Management Program, Engineering and Management Program, 2016.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 53-54).
Rich data sets exist in Major League Baseball (MLB) and the National Football League (NFL) that track players and equipment (i.e. the ball) in space and time. Using machine learning and other analytical techniques, this research explores the various data sets in each sport, providing advanced insights for team decision makers. Additionally, a framework will be presented on how the results can impact organizational decision-making. Qualitative research methods (e.g. interviews with front office personnel) are used to provide the analysis with both context and breadth; whereas various quantitative analyses supply depth to the research. For example, the reader will be exposed to mathematical/computer science terms such as Kohonen Networks and Voronoi Tessellations. However, they are presented with great care to simplify the concepts, allowing an understanding for most readers. As this research is jointly supported by the engineering and management schools, certain topics are kept at a higher level for readability. For any questions, contact the author for further discussion. Part I will address the distinction between performance and production, followed briefly by a decomposition of a typical MLB organizational structure, and finally display how the results of this analyses can directly impact areas such as player evaluation, advance scouting, and in-game strategy. Part II will similarly present how machine learning analyses can impact opponent scouting and personnel evaluation in the NFL.
by Jeremy H. Hochstedler.
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Turick, Robert Michael. "Coaching Motivations Behind Over-Signing in College Football." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1400199034.

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Gilmore, Sarah. "Life in the frying pan : towards the training and development of football managers." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343395.

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Elliott, Dominic Paul. "Organisational learning from crisis : an examination of the UK football industry 1946-97." Thesis, Durham University, 1998. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1045/.

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Lee, Daniel K. "Alignment Between Performance and NCAA Division I Football Head Coach Compensation." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/443.

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According to Fama (1980), the agency theory states that in order to avoid issues of moral hazard and adverse selection problems, executive compensation should be in alignment with performance. However, it is difficult to identify specific performance measures that are both precise and sensitive, especially when concerning corporate executives who typically do not give out public information. In order to analyze the validity of the agency theory, this study uses the scope of NCAA Division I-A football to analyze the relationship between pay and performance with respect to head coaches. We investigate factors that various literature on executive compensation have identified as associated variables such as organization size, job complexity, market competition, ability to attract talent, and mentorship. Through multiple regression analysis, results showed that size, ability to attract talent (recruiting ability), competition, and academic success were significantly positively associated with coach compensation. There was no significant association for winning games or mentorship, however. Because winning had no effect on salaries, we concluded that the agency theory did not hold for the specific context of Division I-A college football.
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Anagnostopoulos, C. "Decision-making in English football : the case of corporate social responsibility." Thesis, Coventry University, 2013. http://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/6b4570ad-c8da-46c8-a5b1-a368474dec63/1.

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has an ever-increasing role in the way commercial businesses operate. Team sport organisations are not immune to this trend. CSR is a strategic issue for sport organisations, with professional teams across a range of sports and national contexts now modifying their organisational structure by establishing charitable foundations tasked with delivering their CSR content. These structural changes inevitably bring in new organisational actors who, in varying degrees, influence ̀the actual implementation of CSR in the professional sports team context. Organisational complexity is therefore increasing regarding CSR, as is the need to capture its elements at both cross-organisational and individual levels. This is especially important given that, unlike mainstream (corporate) foundations that deal directly with a ‘parent’ company, professional sport leagues often mandate the implementation of CSR through central funding mechanisms. This in turn emphasises the intricacy of the process and the dynamics amongst organisational actors at various levels. To date, no studies have attempted to address this complexity. The present thesis aims to help fill the gap by examining the managerial decision-making process in the organisational context of charitable foundations established by English professional football clubs. The current study employs a grounded theory methodology as it aims to develop a substantive theory of how managers responsible for the formulation and implementation of CSR-related programmes in English football make professional decisions. The research utilises the Straussian variant of grounded theory, which accepts that humans shape their institutions as much as institutions shape people. The study also seeks cognitive similarity, a concept that implies some form of similar attribution of meaning, understanding or interpretation amongst individuals in multiple organisations. Although its purpose was to develop an individual-based substantive theory grounded in the way managers make decisions regarding CSR, throughout the focus has been on decision-making itself rather than on the individuals who facilitate this process. The study is populated with the top two divisions of English football and employs two data collection techniques: organisational documents and semi-structured interviews. The fieldwork took place in three different phases, with the first ̀consisting of two sub-phases. Phase 1a emphasised the analysis of organisational documents (a total of 25 documents from 16 football organisations), while the following phases of the fieldwork were based on constant comparative data analysis from 32 interviews. The theoretical framework that emerged from this study is one of assessable transcendence; in a conceptually abstract fashion, ‘assessable transcendence’ concerns a process that, fortified ̀by passion, contingent on trust, sustained by communication and substantiated by factual performance, enables the formulation and implementation of CSR-related programmes in this context. The social process that emerged from this study, therefore, consists of an intrinsic (that is, passion) and an extrinsic (that is, trust) stimulus, both of which are central components of the micro-social process transcending. These two stimuli, however, require the support of both internal and external communication (abstractly expressed through the micro-social process manoeuvring), and thus all three together form a ‘coalition’ which can enhance both business and social performance (largely expressed by the first ̀two micro-social processes, namely safeguarding and harmonising). Accordingly, two interrelated aspects of the decision-making process constitute a common thread in this research: (a) the recognition that social consciousness stimulates the process of assessable transcendence in an indispensable and limitless way, and (b) an understanding that transcendence cannot occur without either continuous achievement or the dissemination of concrete ‘CSR impact’ in social and business forms alike (hence assessable). The significance of this doctoral thesis for the sport management literature is four-fold. First, it focuses on the individual level of analysis, thereby offering a framework that explains the decision-making of those individuals responsible for the application of CSR in professional team sport organisations. By doing so, it bridges the micro/macro divide by integrating the micro-domain’s focus on individuals (i.e., foundation managers) with those of the meso- and macro- domains. Second, it moves away from mono-theoretical approaches that have been mainly used for the examination of CSR in the sporting context. By doing so, it illustrates that different, and often opposing, theoretical approaches may be needed in order to fully capture and theoretically explain the way in which the CSR practice occurs. Third, it shifts the focus of scholarly activity away from CSR content-based research towards more process-oriented approaches. CSR content research does little to explain how professional teams achieve and maintain such positioning through deliberate and trial-and-error CSR actions initiated by the individuals therein. Fourth, an in relation to the previous point, it employs a process-oriented methodology (namely, grounded theory) whose utilisation in sport management research has been either non-existent or a ‘pick and mix’ practice. By doing so, the current thesis responds to calls for internal consistency and methodological coherence, thereby adding to the limited number of studies that have utilised this methodology in a rounded manner. The theoretical framework presented in this dissertation has emerged from exploratory study. As such, the four micro-social processes, their associative meanings and, more importantly, the four principal concepts that hold assessable transcendence are regarded as tentative and require substantiation through further research. To this end, a number of research propositions are offered that can serve as a starting point towards a continued exploration of those moderating and mediating factors on the formulation and implementation of CSR in team sport organisations.
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Claxton, Lawrence J. "Factors that Motivate Attendance At NCAA Division II Football Games| A Multiple Case Study." Thesis, Northcentral University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3623287.

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Government funding shortages are changing the financial landscape of collegiate athletic programs. Athletic administrators struggling to discover alternative financial sources have frequently focused their efforts on increasing home game attendance, which leads to increased concession and licensing revenues. The problem is that schools sporting programs will continue to lose funds if schools do not attract and maintain a larger fan base at athletic events. The purpose of this multiple case study is to identify and explore the factors that motivate fans attendance at NCAA Division II football games using both a survey and interviews at four universities within the Great American Conference, the Lone Star Conference, and the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association. The research study that is employed is based on multiple case study and triangulated data collected from a small sample group at four universities: Northeastern State, Southeastern Oklahoma State, Southwestern Oklahoma State, and West Texas A & M. Data collection methods included the administration of a Sport Fan Motivation Scale survey to fans at a home game for each university, individual interviews of the sample group athletic directors, and review of online sources. Key results of the study yielded significant insight into optimal methodologies athletic administrators can employ to increase program revenues by increasing home game attendance. The findings were evaluated based upon the data collected utilizing four research questions. Economic factors were most likely to affect motivation of fans to attend home football games. Game attractiveness factors have a positive effect on fans at home football games. Demographic factors affect the motivation of fans to attend home football games. Residual factors affect the motivation of fans to attend football games. Many commonalities were found in the collected data that helped to identify themes and connect this information to previous research described in the literature review. A review of economic, team oriented, demographic, and ancillary factors yielded results indicating that integration of promotional activities, ensuring ample parking space for non-tailgaters, and a feeling of commitment or identification with the team are means to increase attendance.

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White, Andrew Robert. "The 'civilizing' of Gloucester Rugby Football Club : a historical sociology of the development and management of an elite English rugby union football club, 1873-1914." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/31040.

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The research encompasses a sociological history of the development of Gloucester Rugby Football Club from its origins in 1873 to the conclusion of the 1913/14 season. The research design is based around a case study of a sports organisation that would become one of the elite Rugby Union Football Clubs. The methodology is qualitative and naturalistic, drawing upon extensive club archives, Rugby Football Union archives, reports of events and developments contained in local Gloucester newspapers, and publications relating to the club's history. Data analysis and interpretation utilises the "grounded theory" methods of open and axial coding recommended by Glaser and Strauss. Themes incorporated into this coding framework and those that emerged from its application are firstly components in the constructions of civic, collective (associated more narrowly with "the club") and masculine identities. With regard to the latter theme, the structuring and nature of a "gender order" and the nature of gender relations that are both implicated in its construction, and emerge from it, provide contributory sub-themes. Secondly, changing patterns of player violence and spectator disorder are explored. Finally the responses of the club's administrators to the managerial imperatives associated with, and contributing to, processes of commercialisation and professionalisation are investigated. These three themes are framed as a series of "transitions" in the club's development. The organising theoretical frameworks that guide the interpretation of data and against which research outcomes will be tested are the Gramscian notion of hegemony and a central component of figurational sociology, the Eliasian theory of a European "civilising process". The research concludes that the early development of the club, from a "team" of middle-class men to a fully-fledged gate-taking club effectively owning its own ground, was firmly in the hands of middle-class groups. The changing composition of the dominant middle class group, from a professional/merchant to a predominantly industrial/retail base, significantly affected the local development of rugby in Gloucester and of the club. Ideological control, in the face of growing diffusion and popularity of rugby amongst Gloucester1 working class communities and as members of these communities were recruited into the club, was maintained through an interlocking set of values and behaviours. These involved, primarily, "rule adherence" and financial probity as guiding principles alongside compromise to local demands for competitive structures and to "ways of playing and spectating" that had a high degree of cultural consonance amongst the local working class. The research uncovers the emergence of a matrix of interlocking components that constitute what has become a robust and enduring cultural paradigm that incorporated a sense of collective sporting identity expressed through Gloucester Rugby Football Club. It was this paradigm that lay at the heart of Gloucester RFC's difficulties, relative to other clubs, in adjusting to developments associated with the transition to the legitimation of professionalism in English Rugby Union football in 1995.
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Jones, Charles W. "The Decline in Student Attendance for Bigtime College Football Programs." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3964.

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Pearson, Bryant. "THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE 2000 NC STATE FOOTBALL SEASON ON WAKE COUNTY, NC." NCSU, 2001. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-20010912-224517.

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The purpose of this study was to objectively assess the economic impact of the 2000 NC State football season on Wake County. Data were collected from several sources to yield an accurate assessment of the economic impact of NC State football on its host community. These sources included: 1) visitor travel and expenditure data, 2) NC State football expenditure data, and 3) relevant data from Wake County. Visitor data were obtained by using two separate samples and surveys. A 20-item questionnaire was mailed to 1,000 randomly selected 2000 NC State football season ticket holders that reside outside of Wake County. In a separate convenience sample, another 1,200 subjects were administered a 12-itmem questionnaire at the Duke game on November 11, 2000. SPSS was then used to generate frequency distributions and summary statistics for the visitors in both samples. NC State football data were supplied by the NC State Athletics Department, and relevant Wake County data were retrieved from several different sources. The economic impact model used in this study (LOCI- Local Area Impact Model) used both local level data and input-output methods to determine the direct, indirect, and induced effects of the 2000 NC State football season on employment, income, and retail activity in Wake County. The multipliers used in this study were derived from input-output analysis of Wake County?s economy using IMPLAN Pro4, and the local level data consisted of the aforementioned visitor data, NC State football data, and relevant Wake County data. The results of the study indicated that the 2000 NC State football season generated 86 new jobs, $2,894,290 of new income, $9,096,507 of new retail spending, and $1,821,707 of new service purchases in Wake County.

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Dawson, Peter Michael. "Measurement and evaluation of managerial efficiency in English league football : a stochastic frontier analysis." Thesis, University of Hull, 2000. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:8401.

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[From the introduction]: The thesis is organised as follows. In Chapters 1 and 2 we present a review of the existing literature. Chapter 1 analyses the role of incentives and human capital attributes as mechanisms for determining performance. Much of the previous literature analyses manager performance using wage equations. What is unique in our approach is that we are able to generate a direct measure of managerial performance. The background to the methodology used is provided in Chapter 2. Here we explore the growing literature on production frontier analysis. We are particularly interested in the available estimation procedures and how previous sports studies have utilised this framework in estimating efficiency. A discussion of the football industry is the focus of Chapter 3, while in Chapter 4 we develop the theoretical model of manager performance. Data and methodological issues are addressed in Chapter 5. Chapters 6 and 7 contain the empirical results. In Chapter 6 we generate managerial efficiency scores and consider how alternative input and output measures and alternative estimation procedures affect these scores. Using the preferred model from Chapter 6, Chapter 7 provides a detailed account of how human capital factors and incentives shape efficiency and some preliminary results as to whether the manager actually matters. Finally, Chapter 8 provides some conclusions and recommendations in the light of the empirical results.
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Yazawa, Daigo. "Environment Change: An Analysis of College Football Operations." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1404234244.

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Hillebrandt, Julia [Verfasser]. "Corporate Social Responsibility in Professional Football : An Investigation of UEFA and the NFL / Julia Hillebrandt." Aachen : Shaker, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1072592185/34.

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Smith, Graham. "The influence of overseas coaching and management on the occupational subculture of English professional football." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2011. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/52324e84-2c14-4fbc-9fea-754379c7d2b7.

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As an area of academic and popular interest it is generally acknowledged that migrant British players and coaches were instrumental in football's global diffusion and that different technical and tactical emphases developed according to particular geographical locations and cultural milieu. As the twentieth century unfolded the trend reversed with increased inward flows of elite foreign playing and coaching labour into the upper tiers of UK football, challenging the distinctive and erstwhile dominant occupational culture of the English game. This study examines this process of sub-cultural adaptation. It is principally concerned with critical evaluation of the dynamics of occupational culture modification and any resultant tensions evidenced between expatriate and indigenous coaching talent and other interest groups operating within the higher echelons of English professional football.
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Ben, Jeddou Roukaya. "Football Selection Optimization through the Integration of Management Theories, AI and Multi-criteria Decision Making." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024UBFCG009.

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Le travail de recherche décrit dans cette thèse s'inscrit dans le contexte de la gestion d'un club de football professionnel, où l'établissement d'un équilibre humain et financier est essentiel pour assurer la pérennité des organisations sportives. Dans le management du football, les méthodes traditionnelles de sélection des joueurs ont historiquement guidé le processus de prise de décision au niveau des clubs. Ce processus de décision stratégique, souvent subjectif et incertain, peut avoir un impact significatif sur les performances financières, économiques et sportives de l’équipe.Alors que le football évolue vers un sport plus axé sur les données, il est de plus en plus reconnu que les méthodes traditionnelles doivent être complétées par des méthodes scientifiques basées sur l'intelligence artificielle et le recours aux méthodes de prise de décision multi-critères pour optimiser la sélection des joueurs et améliorer les performances tant sportives que financières. Il devient essentiel de rechercher un équilibre optimal entre le rendement sportif et la performance financière afin d'optimiser les résultats d'une entité spécifique: le club de football.À cet égard, l'objectif principal de cette thèse est de proposer un modèle qui combine les techniques de machine learning et les méthodes d’analyse multicritères pour améliorer l'efficacité et l'objectivité du processus de sélection des joueurs de football, tout en tenant compte des considérations financières et managériales. Notre première contribution est de prioriser les critères techniques, physiques, tactiques et comportementaux des joueurs en utilisant les algorithmes Random Forest, Entropy et CRITIC. La seconde contribution est de classer les joueurs selon leurs performances en se basant sur la méthode TOPSIS.Afin de valider ces contributions, nous avons créé un système d'aide à la décision permettant au décideur sportif de suggérer des joueurs en fonction de leurs performances. Notre modèle ne vise pas à remplacer les entraîneurs, mais plutôt à intégrer des évaluations subjectives et objectives pour permettre une compréhension approfondie des facteurs de performance sportive et managériale, améliorant ainsi la précision de la sélection des joueurs. Alors que le football s'oriente vers des approches plus axées sur les données, la combinaison de l'IA et du MCDM peut optimiser davantage les processus de sélection des joueurs, en tirant parti des avantages de l'analyse de données objective et de l'expertise subjective.Les résultats obtenus démontrent l'efficacité de notre approche dans l'amélioration des performances des équipes de football, particulièrement lorsqu'elle est soutenue et assistée par l'intelligence émotionnelle, à savoir la capacité du manager à détecter l'état substantiel du joueur
The research outlined in this thesis falls within the context of professional football club management, where establishing a balance between human and financial aspects is essential for long-term viability of sports organizations. In football management, the traditional methods of player selection have historically guided decision-making processes within clubs. This strategic decision-making process, which is often subjective and uncertain, can have a significant impact on the club's financial, economic and sporting situation.As football is increasingly becoming a data-driven sport, there is a growing recognition that traditional approaches need to be complemented by scientific methods based on artificial intelligenceomenclature{AI}{Artificial Intelligence} and multi-criteria decision makingomenclature{MCDM}{Multi-Criteria Decision Making} approaches to optimize player selection and improve both sporting and financial performance. It is becoming increasingly important to find an optimal balance between sporting success and financial performance to optimize the results of a specific entity: the football club.In this respect, the main purpose of this thesis is to propose a model that combines machine learning techniques with multi-criteria analysis methods to improve the efficiency and objectivity of the football player selection process, while taking into account financial and managerial considerations. Our first contribution is to prioritize the physical, technical, tactical, and behavioral criteria of players using Random Forest, Entropy, and CRITIComenclature{CRITIC}{CRiteria Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation}algorithms. The second contribution is to rank players based on their performance using the TOPSIS method.To validate these contributions, we designed a decision support system that assists the sports decision maker by proposing players in order of performance. Our model does not aim to replace coaches but rather to integrate subjective and objective evaluations to provide a thorough understanding of the factors influencing sporting and managerial performance, thereby improving the accuracy of player selection. As football moves towards more data-oriented approaches, the combination of AI and MCDM can further optimize player selection processes by leveraging the benefits of objective data analysis and subjective expertise.The results obtained show the effectiveness of our approach in improving the performance of football teams, especially when supported and promoted by emotional intelligence, which refers to the manager's ability to recognize the substantial state of the players
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Koo, Ja Joon. "Brand management strategy for Korean professional football teams : a model for understanding the relationships between team brand identity, fans' identification with football teams, and team brand loyalty." Thesis, Brunel University, 2009. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/3588.

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This research recommends a new approach to brand strategy for Korean professional football teams, focusing on the relationships between team brand identity as the basic element of sports team branding, team brand loyalty as the most desirable goal, and identification between fans and teams as the mediator between identity and loyalty. Nowadays, professional football teams are no longer merely sporting organisations, but organisational brands with multi-million pound revenues. It is vital for football teams to build a relevant brand strategy based on the relationship with their fans. Existing research on sports branding suggests that fans who are deeply identified with a specific team tend to possess extremely high loyalty, holding a particular team as central to their identity. Therefore, managing the relationships between team brand identity, fan-team identification, and team brand loyalty can be the most powerful brand strategy for football teams, particularly for Korean football teams that do not retain strong fan bases and yet desire to gain consumers who identify with them. Through two empirical studies and case study analysis this research investigated a construct of team brand identity in the professional football context. Consumers’ associations with football teams were examined and 13 elements of a team brand identity scale were developed. It was revealed that team brand identity is composed of four identity dimensions which are experience, visual, non-product, and product. Case studies, with a further literature review of team brand identity, clarified and confirmed the first study findings. The final empirical study tested and confirmed the correlated and serial relationships, and provided the basis for the new theoretical model on which to build the brand strategy.
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Plaatjie, Mzwandile Ronald. "A comparison of coping strategies of ethnically diverse football players." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/1163.

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Chapweteka, Isaac. "The current state of injury related care for Malawi super league football players." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3867.

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The study aimed at identifying the current state of injury related care for Malawi super league football players. To achieve this the study determined the average time taken by soccer players in Malawi to return to active participation following an injury, identified the type of treatment received by football players, determined the management of football injuries by team doctors in Malawi, established the responsibilities of football coaches in the management of injuries in Malawi and established the financial and medical support received by football players after sustaining an injury
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Contreras, Anthony. "An Exploration into the Influence on Share Prices for Publicly Traded Football Clubs." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1157.

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The present paper explores the effects player transfers have on share price for publicly traded football clubs in Europe. The study utilizes two samples: one English sample from 1997—2004, and another more contemporary European sample from 2007—2014. Preliminary analysis assesses share price links with team performance, financial variables, and two STOXX indices. Further analysis includes 12 event studies testing for abnormal returns resulting from player transfers. Of these 12 event studies, half of the transfers yield abnormal returns. Though results varied, there remains ample evidence from this paper for academics to further study the topic of player news and share prices for publicly traded football clubs.
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Mitra, John Paul. "Optimizing Construction Estimation: A Case Study of the ETSU Football Stadium and the ETSU Fine Arts Center." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/445.

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Considering the complexity of the construction industry, it is vital to predict costs accurately throughout the entire planning, design, and construction process of a project. Various factors such as overhead, delays, cost variation, and program and scope play significant roles in determining the viability and profitability of a project. Thus, it is important to learn about what makes construction estimates so variable even among expert estimators within the same company. This study will look at the estimation methods used by BurWil Construction Company and Denark Construction, Inc. for the ETSU Football Stadium and the ETSU Fine Arts Center, respectively, as case studies for both post- and in-development construction projects. The estimates used in different phases of the projects will be compared against the most current cost of the project; the final cost for the Football Stadium and the most up-to-date costs for the Fine Arts Center. Also, the different phases of design and construction and their corresponding estimates will be inspected thoroughly. As an ending discussion of the study, optimization efforts will be considered to assess how current planning and estimation methods can be improved to reduce cost and time for all parties involved in the project.
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Gerstner, Ludwig. "Investigating the business model of a professional rugby union in South Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97325.

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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to investigate the business model of a professional South African Rugby Union by determining the core logic and practices of the Boland Rugby Union. Information was gathered mostly through semi-structured interviews conducted with board members of Boland Rugby. Additional information was gathered through observation, the media, the collection of relevant documents, as well as other secondary research methods. Boland Rugby, similar to most South African rugby provinces, has both an amateur and a professional arm. The study indicates that Boland Rugby Union offers a strong value proposition to its target segments focused on development and creating a platform for the different rugby codes to participate and develop. The professional arm is focused on providing the Boland Kavaliers with the necessary resources to compete against other provinces. Boland covers a wide geographical area and therefore a good structure is needed to make governance easier. Market limitations and especially financial resources create challenges towards creating a stronger commercial value. Therefore partnerships with local businesses are essential in providing the necessary value proposition. As shown by the literature review, there are strong links between the different business model components. An important finding was the co-creation that occurs continuously throughout the value creation process. Boland Rugby, its consumers, and all relevant stakeholders play an essential role in creating this value. The Osterwalder model used during the study acted as a good structure to capture the business activities. Looking forward, Boland Rugby will have to explore different business avenues through which they can create revenue and further develop their value offering. It was clear that there is a lack in strategic drive to meet a changing market environment, although the union finds itself in a comfortable position as their geographical area will remain theirs. Boland Rugby has financial challenges that accompany professional sport, and it requires a sustainable financial model with a clear strategy towards long-term objectives. The study recommendations indicate that a change towards professionalism is not necessarily the only option, and is not always well received within a structure that is built on an amateur approach. Depending on the future strategy going forward, commercial rationale will play a central role in future decision-making. One thing is certain, good governance and corporate values are necessary to increase the faith of stakeholders in the decision-making processes and leadership of Boland Rugby.
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Stickney, Wayne Joshua. "An examination of the issues impacting athletic directors at NCAA Division I football bowl series non-automatic qualifying institutions." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3684803.

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This study attempted to identify the issues confronting athletic directors at the NCAA Division I FBS membership institutions from the following athletic conferences: American Athletic Conference, Conference USA, Mid American Conference, Mountain West Conference, and Sun Belt Conference. These conferences are considered to be non-BCS automatic qualifying conferences. Since the literature showed a lack of research on most of the issues that impact the university athletic director, this research attempted to present an enhanced perspective of the issues that the athletic director must confront in his or her career and daily life. The researcher utilized an explanatory sequential mixed methods research design to identify and explore the issues. Twenty-two of sixty-one athletic directors responded to a thirteen item electronic survey. Follow-up interviews were administered to six of the athletic directors who indicated a willingness to participate. Athletic directors identified fundraising, managing the budget and finance issues, and student-athlete welfare as the top three issues affecting his or her career. Athletic directors identified the following as those issues that consumed most of their time: fundraising, managing his or her department's budget, and staying current on NCAA regulations. Athletic directors identified the following as their most stressful issues: fundraising, budget, decision making, personnel, the pending autonomy of the high resource conferences, and general uncertainty. Warning signs identified by the athletic directors included: national lawsuits, declining attendance (both alumni/fans and students) at sporting events, and decreasing state support. In addition, individual athletic directors identified the following issues that may impact the future: negative impact on the United States Olympic movement due to significantly increased emphasis on football and men's basketball, impact of non-practioner perspective in governance of collegiate athletics, and possible significant change in the definition of amateurism.

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Malinowski, Mateusz. "Capital Market Efficiency : an event study on the incorporation of football transfers." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-12770.

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We live in an era where internationalization and globalization are two extremely attractive concepts. People aim to create a society where limits and restrictions are erased and a thriving society is a reality. Numerous transformations have occurred in order to realize this and one of the most vital ones is the globalization of the economy. The globalization was made possible through the discovery on the capital market. This market enables people to trade with each other, no matter place or time. Thus, a more efficient solution is offered for rapid and significant transfers such as loans and investment. According to various researchers, the capital market determines, in a way, which company will grow and which will stagnate in development. However, the capital market needs to be efficient in order to offer the services intended. The aim of this dissertation is to explain how efficient the capital market is when incorporating information regarding football player transfers. By examining the empirical findings, it will also be able to establish if assets of the same market value cause different share price fluctuations depending on if they are acquired or sold.
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Mullane, David K. II. "School Choice Factors and Varsity Football Success in Ohio Interscholastic Athletics." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu159256400822049.

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Rikardsson, Hampus, and Linus Rikardsson. "Strategic Management in Football : How the European top club could adjust to UEFA financial fair play and simultaneously create conditions for competitive advantage within the changing UEFA football industry." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-94537.

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Background The external requirements for the European top clubs within the UEFA football industry are changing. Due to mismanaged finances during a significant period of time derived from the clubs’ ruthless aim for short-term sporting success, UEFA (The Union of European Football Association) has decided to change the rules of the game. UEFA’s newly implemented financial fair play regulations, with the main requirement of breaking even, force clubs that aim to participate in future UEFA competitions to drastically improve their financial performance. Consequently, we are witnessing a fundamental shift in the European top club’s upcoming strategy. From now on, the club must go from pursuing a short-term strategy almost exclusively based on the quest for sporting success, to successfully implement a long-term strategy that besides being based on the main purpose of sporting success also is characterized by the quest for financial success. Purpose The purpose with this thesis is to provide guidance towards the European top club’s adjustment to UEFA financial fair play and its simultaneous achievement of competitive advantage within the changing UEFA football industry. Approach With the more decisive aim for profitability, the similarities between the European top club and a profit-seeking firm become evident. Consequently, the authors apply and adapt business strategic management theories to formulate a long-term strategy based on the simultaneous achievement of profitability and improved sporting performance.   Results Formulating a long-term strategy based on the simultaneous quest for financial and sporting success, the authors finally come to an understanding of how the European top club possibly could comply with financial fair play and simultaneously create conditions for competitive advantage within the changing UEFA football industry.
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Mosola, Moeketsi Emmanuel. "The business of sport : towards a viable commercial model for the management of professional football in Africa." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/62652.

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Sport plays a big part in the lives and psyche of not only South Africans and the world's citizens, but also those of the corporate world. As the era of professional sports grows and gains a foothold in more and more sporting codes, so the amount of money that is being spent is growing as well. Humphreys and Ruseski (2009) recognise the challenges confronting economists in both defining and measuring the size and scope of the sport industry. According to Chalip (2006) the development of the recreation and sport management field requires two complementary streams: one that tests the relevance and application of theories derived from other disciplines, such as finance and economics, and one that is grounded in sport phenomena. Linking economic and financial theory to the context of the sport industry, and specifically professional football, to try and understand this most popular and universal of activities from a business perspective in Africa, is the basis for this study. Professional football clubs as an element of the South African sport industry depend largely on four main sources of revenue: sponsorships, gate revenue, television and broadcasting rights, and merchandising. The challenges these professional football clubs face include rising ticket prices; corporate sponsorship facing economic and regulatory concerns; broadcasters facing a great challenge in integrating social media into their offerings; and rising player costs and talent development with long lags before they pay off. As a result professional football clubs are increasingly finding it difficult to balance the needs of stakeholders and be commercially viable at the same time. It is this new reality reflected by the challenges mentioned above, that has caused many organised professional football clubs to look beyond the traditional financing concepts and strategies that have been used and to supplement them with innovative approaches. It is postulated in this research that professional football clubs in Africa are required to seek out scarce resources from a wide range of possible revenue sources and to use their knowledge of sport and financing skills to ensure that the scarce revenue sources are allocated in such a way as to yield optimum satisfaction for their fans and commercial profits for their club owners. Further, failure to do so by these professional football clubs in Africa has resulted in these clubs not being commercially viable and lagging behind Europe in so far as the commercialisation of professional football is concerned. The reality that South African and most African professional football clubs are not financially viable and thus do not yield healthy returns on investment for their owners, resulted in formulating two research questions to guide this study: 1. Why are African professional football clubs not commercially viable? 2. Can commercially relevant, practical, measurable and consistent variables from successful European professional football clubs be transferred to develop a viable business model for the effective management of professional football in Africa? This study followed a mixed-method design. The data collection also involved gathering both quantitative numeric information (three-year financial records of leagues and clubs in Europe and Africa) as well as qualitative text information (semi-structured interviews and professional football expert research document analysis). The procedure for both qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis was conducted rigorously. The study began with a detailed financial analysis of leagues and clubs in Europe and Africa in order to generalise results to a population and then focuses, in the second phase, on detailed qualitative, semi-structured interviews to collect detailed views from professional football experts. Why is the African professional football business model not commercially viable? From the collective results obtained it became clear that the answer to this important study question is both complex and multi-layered. Triangulation protocol was used determine reliability and consistency of the results.
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Evans, James O. "School Resources, Social Media Capabilities, and Recruiting Effectiveness in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Football Bowl Subdivision." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1563223839479203.

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Greene, Amanda E., Kason O'Neil, Gary Lhotsky, and Kylie Russell. "Exploring Fans of a New NCAA Division I Football Program: An Application of Collaborative Action Research in Sport Management." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4951.

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Kim, MJ Min Jun. "Money Craving in China and Korea: Football Club Performance and the Share Prices of Owning Corporations." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1044.

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This event study analyzes the share price reactions of the owning corporation investors in relation to the Chinese and Korean football clubs' success. Guangzhou Evergrande FC, Beijing Guoan FC, Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors FC, and Pohang Steelers FC are examined which are owned by Evergrande Group, CITIC Group, Hyundai Motors Company, and POSCO Group, respectively. It is assumed that successful events of the football clubs such as winning championships and major players and head coach acquisitions will have a positive boost to the daily returns of the owning corporations. The results are strongest for Pohang Steelers FC but other football clubs also suggest similar trends. The findings offer some tangible support for the assumption that the recent global arms race in transfer spending by football clubs can create value for the owners and suggest that the investments may lead to positive returns.
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Christiansen, L. A., Amanda Greene, and Charles W. Jones. "College Football Revival: Analyzing a Commuter School’s Marketing Efforts and How They Impact Key Stakeholders." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3965.

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Acker, Enrico. "The personal financial management attitudes and practices of South African rugby players." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/11363.

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When rugby became professional in 1995, both the game and the social and financial position of the players changed (Basson, 2003). Players started to train full-time and earned annual salaries (Goldman& Johns, 2009). Due to the transition from amateur to professional status, rugby players needed to make adequate personal financial management decisions. The purpose of this study is to investigate the personal financial management attitudes and practices of South African rugby players. Previous research about personal financial management largely focussed on the general public, and did not focus on South African rugby players. Rugby is a professional sport where players earn money from a young age. It is expected of rugby players to make adequate personal financial decisions from as early as 19 years old. The literature review provided an overview of personal financial management and a discussion on the various components that should be included in personal financial management. A framework for this study was developed. The framework used these components as the base for the personal financial attitudes and practices and how it relates to the demographics of the respondents. Three hypotheses were also formulated based on the literature overview and framework. The objectives of this study were achieved by adopting a quantitative research methodology. A convenience sample of 132 rugby players was drawn for this study. Rugby players from NMMU Madibaz, Eastern Province Rugby Union (EP), South Western Districts Rugby Union (SWD) and Sharks Rugby Union participated in this study. The results of the empirical survey showed that respondents have positive attitudes towards the importance of budgeting, retirement planning, risk management, debt management and investment and the importance of employing a financial planner. On the other hand the personal financial management practices of the respondents in this study can be described as weak. From the results of the empirical survey it is clear that the respondents have weak practices towards the majority of the personal financial management practices. Only one of the three hypotheses was accepted namely that there is a relationship between the demographics of rugby players and their personal financial practices. There is no relationship between personal financial management attitudes and personal financial management practices of South African rugby players and that there is also no relationship between demographic variables and personal financial management attitudes of South African rugby players. This study has provided insight into the personal financial management attitudes and practices of South African rugby players. Valuable information was obtained that could help to address the personal financial management needs of rugby players.
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Perri, Pascal. "Les nouvelles techniques de billetterie pour augmenter les revenus des clubs professionnels de football en France." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017BORD0643/document.

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Le football professionnel est devenu une industrie du spectacle audiovisuel dont il tire une partie importante de ses revenus. Cependant, les recettes dites Matchday et les revenus annexes de la billetterie constituent un gisement de croissance important pour les clubs français. Ceux ci devraient pouvoir maitriser les capacités offertes au public du spectacle vivant dans les stades et devenir propriétaires de leurs enceintes en utilisant la technique des baux emphytéotiques. Les politiques de prix variables ou de prix dynamiques conduites dans d’autres secteurs comme les transports, l’hôtellerie ou les centres de loisir sont applicables dans la gestion de la billetterie. La digitalisation de l’offre ouvre de nouvelles perspectives de relation client. Elle améliore la traçabilité des consommateurs et permet de déterminer leur propension optimale à payer. Les solutions de CRM, Customer Relationship Management améliorent la connaissance client et permettent de mieux segmenter l’offre pour mieux adresser les différents publics du stade. Dans une activité fondée sur l’incertitude du résultat mais sur la certitude des coûts de production, les ressources digitales permettent de fidéliser les différentes catégories de fans et d’augmenter le panier moyen. Les clubs français très engagés dans la gestion à court terme ont négligé les outils du pricing et tardent à adopter les solutions digitales qui ont donné des résultats satisfaisants dans des secteurs comparables. Nous formulons des propositions adossées à des expérimentations concrètes pour augmenter les performances de la billetterie dans le secteur de l’industrie du football en France
Football has become a major industry of entertainment for TV networks and also for companies running football squads. TV rights represent at least 50% of the French clubs incomes. Meanwhile, most of them have disregarded Matchday revenues. For a large majority of them, they don’t own their arenas. Moreover, they play in (too) large stadiums with overcapacities according to average attendances. This is why average prices are below the European average price when we compare French League One with the other major’s championships in Europe. In this field, we suggest long-term leases between public owners and football firms in order to transfer both property and ability to refit arenas and stadiums. In addition, French firms running football clubs have not yet fully used technics of variable prices and dynamic prices. They should also display CRM resources in order to address each segment of costumers, including fans, year ticket holders, walk in customer or families. The target is to hit as close as possible the willingness to pay of each category of customers. We have experienced such policies for Year ticket holders in French third division. Digital resources increase customer insights and sustain cross selling policies increasing revenues as it is done in other comparable sectors such as air transportation, leisure parks, hotels and resorts. We make some suggestions and recommendations to strengthen home revenues in the French professional football League
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Andersson, Tobias, and Anja Falck. "“Football Without Fans is Nothing” : En fallstudie om relationen mellan Djurgården Fotboll och dess supportrar." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Företagsekonomi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-34846.

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Supportrar är en viktig intressent för fotbollsföreningar. Fotbollssupportrar är konsument av samma produkt som de är medproducent av då de betalar för att gå på fotbollsmatcher samtidigt som de är med och skapar stämningen kring matchen. Svensk fotboll är reglerad av 51%-regeln vilket innebär att föreningens medlemmar också är ägare av föreningen. Denna tredelade roll som supportrarna besitter är en del av komplexiteten i relationen mellan en fotbollsförening och dess supportrar. Med bakgrund av tidigare forskning gjord kring Stakeholder Theory har fokus till störst del har varit att identifiera fotbollsföreningars olika intressenter och hur viktiga de är för organisationen. Denna studie kommer endast att fokusera på en intressent i en förening i Sverige med ambitionen att utifrån Stakeholder Theory beskriva relationen mellan en fotbollsförening och dess supportrar, ur båda parters perspektiv, vilket även efterfrågats av tidigare studier inom ämnet. En kvalitativ studie har genomförts där empiriskt material samlats in genom semi- strukturerade intervjuer med valda representanter från Djurgården Fotboll samt föreningens supportrar. Det empiriska materialet analyserades utifrån Stakeholder Theory för att sedermera besvara studiens syfte och frågeställning. Resultatet visar att supportrar är den viktigaste intressenten för Djurgården Fotboll och att Stakeholder Theory grundläggande kan ge en förklaring till supportrarnas betydelse som intressentgrupp.
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Lenz, Marc Valentin [Verfasser], Sascha L. [Gutachter] Schmidt, and Jochen [Gutachter] Menges. "Talent management as a vital business model component : the case of european professional football clubs / Marc Valentin Lenz ; Gutachter: Sascha L. Schmidt, Jochen Menges." Vallendar : WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, 2018. http://d-nb.info/117458677X/34.

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Lenz, Marc Valentin Verfasser], Sascha Leonard [Gutachter] [Schmidt, and Jochen [Gutachter] Menges. "Talent management as a vital business model component : the case of european professional football clubs / Marc Valentin Lenz ; Gutachter: Sascha L. Schmidt, Jochen Menges." Vallendar : WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, 2018. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:992-opus4-7140.

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Пєсоцький, Сергій Миколайович, Сергей Николаевич Песоцкий, and Serhii Mykolaiovych Piesotskyi. "Методы управления командой в мини-футболе (футзале)." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2011. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/24256.

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Lake, Christy. "Exhibit Construction: Conservation, Preservation, Materials, and Design Focus on the Pro Football Hall of Fame Canton, Ohio." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1320685649.

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Randolph, Jessica L. "A Mixed-Methods Investigation of FMS Shoulder Mobility and Reported Upper Body Injury in Collegiate Football Athletes at a Division II Midwestern University." Thesis, Lindenwood University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10643168.

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Since the introduction of the Functional Movement Screen (FMS), researchers explored how resulting scores related to injury incidence, often by utilizing the sum score of all seven patterns. This study isolated the shoulder mobility screen and upper body injury incidence for collegiate Division II football athletes at a private Midwestern university. The researcher was interested in determining if pain on the screen indicated by a score of 0, too much or too little mobility, left to right asymmetry, and general score of the screen were related to upper body and/or shoulder injuries for football athletes during the 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 academic years. Injuries were classified as all reported and recorded and as injuries resulting in three or more days lost from practices or games. Additionally, the head football strength and conditioning coaches and head football athletic trainer were interviewed to provide information related to perceptions of effectiveness of the FMS in identification of injury and barriers to implementation of FMS results. Many significant conditions were identified in the 2014-2015 cohort related to shoulder mobility score and injury likelihood, while only one condition was identified in the 2015-2016 cohort. This lack of transferability from one academic year to the next, in conjunction with the limitations of time and resources identified by the strength and conditioning and athletic training staff, led the researcher to express concern in the utilization of the FMS shoulder mobility screen as a consistent primary tool in the identification of potential injury of the upper body and prescription of individual corrective exercise for this population.

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