Unlike most major U.S. sport teams, it is common for professional soccer clubs around the world to trade players for cash. This article develops a model of the player-transfer market in soccer in which observed transfer fees are determined by player characteristics, selling-club characteristics, buying-club characteristics, and time effects. The model is based on data on 1,350 transfer fees in English professional soccer from June 1990 to August 1996. The estimated model is used to investigate the rate of inflation in transfer fees. In addition, the determination of transfer fees is considered within different segments of the transfer market. It is found that the determination of transfer fees differs markedly among segments.
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The Determination of Player Transfer Fees in English Professional Soccer
Stephen Dobson and Bill Gerrard
Motivations for Crowdinvesting in European Football Clubs
Szczepan Kościółek
the motivations for investments in football clubs through equity crowdfunding campaigns, this study uses the self-determination theory (SDT; Deci & Ryan, 2008 ; Ryan & Deci, 2000 ). Related studies are inconsistent in terms of the role of particular intrinsic and extrinsic motivations and financial
Play Calling Strategy in American Football: A Game-Theoretic Stochastic Dynamic Programming Approach
Jess S. Boronico and Scott L. Newbert
This manuscript presents a model to assist in the determination of optimal American football play selection for first down and goal situations. A game theoretic approach is embedded within a stochastic dynamic programming formulation, resulting in a mixed strategy satisfying the ex-ante declared objective of maximizing the probability of scoring a touchdown. The methodology provides a quantitative framework to a problem that impacts on team performance and addresses a gap in the literature concerning the application of quantitative methods to sports.
Intercollegiate Athletic Success and Donations at NCAA Division I Institutions
Brad R. Humphreys and Michael Mondello
The authors tested the hypothesis that donations to universities vary with athletic success using a comprehensive panel data set drawn from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) over the period of 1976–1996. Estimation of a linear reduced-form model of the determination of donations to colleges and universities indicates that postseason football bowl-game and NCAA Division I men’s basketball-tournament appearances were associated with significant increases in restricted giving and no increases in unrestricted giving to public institutions the following year, whereas only postseason basketball appearances were associated with increases in restricted giving to private institutions.
Organizational Behavior in Sport Management: An Applied Approach to Understanding People and Groups
Eddie G. Walker II
motivational theories that could influence employee attitudes and emotions. In most instances, motivation is not completely intrinsic or extrinsic. Therefore, the authors’ inclusion of Deci and Ryan’s ( 1985 ) self-determination theory is particularly beneficial as it provides the broad spectrum of potential
The Gradual Normalization of Behaviors Which Might Challenge Ethical and Professional Standards in Two British Elite Sports Organizations
Niels Boysen Feddersen and Simon Edward Phelan
antidote to the rationales you have not spent enough time in the trenches and it has always been like this is to involve coaches and athletes in co-determination. Co-determination, in this case, relates to athlete rights. It goes beyond participation, which refers to the daily work that occurs in
“Back in the Day, You Opened Your Mine and on You Went”: Extractives Industry Perspectives on Sport, Responsibility, and Development in Indigenous Communities in Canada
Rob Millington, Lyndsay M.C. Hayhurst, Audrey R. Giles, and Steven Rynne
” ( Rowe & Tuck, 2017 , p. 8), Indigenous communities need to have the power to decide what Indigenous self-determination and sovereignty in SFD look like for them. In saying this, we return back to the recognition discussed earlier in our paper, that SFD is in and of itself rooted in Western imperialism
Feeling Vital by Watching Sport: The Roles of Team Identification and Stadium Attendance in Enhancing Subjective Vitality
Masayuki Yoshida, Mikihiro Sato, and Jason Doyle
identification exerts a direct impact on future subjective vitality. Self-determination theory ( Ryan & Deci, 2000 , 2008 ) and the interrelated basic psychological needs theory ( Deci & Ryan, 2000 ) maintain that subjective vitality is enhanced when people engage in activities that fulfill their basic needs
The Effects of the 2018 Commonwealth Games Service Environment on Athlete Satisfaction and Performance: A Transformative Service Research Approach
Eric MacIntosh, Keita Kinoshita, and Popi Sotiriadou
.M. , & Deci , E.L. ( 2002 ). An overview of self-determination theory: An organismic- dialectical perspective . In E.L. Deci & R.M. Ryan (Eds.), Handbook of self-determination research (pp. 3 – 33 ). Rochester, NY : The University of Rochester Press . Schafer , J.L. ( 1999 ). Multiple
All the News That’s Fit to Print? How the Media Frames Professional Athlete Philanthropy
Kathy Babiak and Stacy-Lynn Sant
giving is a “self-determination” perspective. This view suggests that donors experience high levels of intrinsic motivation and commitment when they involved in charitable and philanthropic activities. Moreover, their actions and behaviors are considered to be driven by the contentment and personal
