digital platforms that may well reflect consumer biases and structural inequalities. With this in mind, by relating to the framework of economic discrimination, this study focuses on examining consumer biases among fans of Major League Baseball (MLB) by analyzing the number of followers for every player
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Nicholas M. Watanabe, Grace Yan, Brian P. Soebbing, and Ann Pegoraro
Zachary W. Arth, Darrin J. Griffin, and Andrew C. Billings
( Attiah, 2018 ), making a global sport such as baseball an interesting and useful test case. Considering the history of baseball as “America’s pastime,” Major League Baseball (MLB) has, from the beginning, featured players from a host of different countries. At the sport’s inception, a small segment of
Richard J. Paulsen
( Krautmann, von Allmen, & Walters, 2018 ) and the team-player relationship ( Krautmann, 2018 ; Paulsen, 2018 ). This paper uses variation in contract length in Major League Baseball (MLB) to study the relationship between player performance and years remaining on the player’s contract. While multiyear
Zachary W. Arth and Andrew C. Billings
On April 21, 2015, the televised game of professional baseball saw the introduction of a new technology, which, for the present, has changed the way the game is broadcast. It was on this day that the St. Louis Cardinals took on the Washington Nationals in the first Major League Baseball (MLB) game
Ted Hayduk III
isolating the contribution of owners’ core competencies from their organization’s financial performance. To that end, the present paper investigates this research question using a panel of N = 420 observations tied to 30 Major League Baseball (MLB) teams and 45 majority owners. Relevant Literature Top
Jeffrey Q. Barden and Yohan Choi
this theoretical relationship and its manifestation in the context of this study. Figure 1 —The influence of potential slack and competitive advantage on team risk behavior. We test our hypotheses in the context of the Major League Baseball (MLB) player draft selections of high school players with no
Lindsey R. Turbyfill, Logan J. Hatley, and Alan R. Needle
in Major League Baseball (MLB) and their incidence is 3 to 9 per 100,000 athlete exposures, depending on position. 1 – 3 Yet despite their lower occurrence, the high-velocity mechanisms associated with concussion in baseball can have lasting effects that affect players’ careers and quality of life
Richard J. Paulsen
principal). In this setting, moral hazard may arise if the employee exerts diminished effort and performs at a low level due to this job security, which is referred to as shirking. Professional sports in the United States, and notably Major League Baseball (MLB), present an ideal environment to study this
Michael S. Guss, John P. Begly, Austin J. Ramme, David P. Taormina, Michael E. Rettig, and John T. Capo
Major League Baseball (MLB) players are highly skilled athletes that require full function of their hands to perform at the highest level, and are at risk for hook of hamate fractures while swinging the bat, or from direct blunt trauma, such as a fall on an outstretched hand or an errant pitch. 1
Dennis Smart, Jason Winfree, and Richard Wolfe
Smart and Wolfe (2003) assessed the concurrent contribution of leadership and human resources to Major League Baseball (MLB) team performance. They found that player resources (defense/pitching and offence/batting) explained 67% of the variance in winning percentage, whereas leadership explained very little (slightly more than 1%) of the variance. In discussing the minimal contribution of leadership to their results, the authors suggested that future studies expand their operationalization of leadership. That is what is done in this study. Finding that the expanded operationalization has limited effect in explaining the contribution of leadership, we take an alternative tack in attempting to understand leadership in MLB. In addition, we estimate a production frontier (based on offensive and defensive resources), determine the efficiency of MLB managers relative to that frontier, and investigate the extent to which manager efficiency can be explained by manager characteristics. Finally, manager characteristics are related to manager compensation.
