The network of value captures in football club management : a framework to develop and analyse competitive advantage in professional team sports

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The network of value captures in football club management: a framework to develop and analyse competitive advantage in professional team sports

This paper uses structural equation modeling to examine the linkages between financial performance, sporting performance and stock market performance for English football clubs over the period from 1995 to 2007. The results indicate that there is a strong correlation between financial and sporting latent constructs. Additionally, the study indicates that the sports managers seek to achieve a minimum level of profit and maximize sporting performance. This situation remains even when the club is owned by a group of investors. On the other hand, the confirmatory factor analysis and regression analysis show that financial and sporting factor scores are statistically correlated with stock returns, but not with risk.

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Sporting, financial and stock market performance in English football: an empirical analysis of structural relationships

A significant number of tourists now wish to combine their concern for the degradation of the environment with their vacation activities. This concern, together with the need for educated people to work on ecological and scientific projects, has led to the emergence of a small but growing number of UK organisations that bring together paying volunteers and research projects to support research into sustainable development. There is little academic literature on the organisations that provide this travel service. The article examines key dynamics of the research volunteer market examined with data from questionnaire responses, interviews and observation. The article uses Porter's five forces model and the Strategic Position and Action Evaluation (SPACE) framework to strategically analyse this sector. The findings suggest that none of the five forces are strong enough to depress profits and therefore, the balance sheets should be healthy; however, this is not always the case. Consequently, the SPACE factors...

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A strategic analysis of volunteer tourism organisations

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between the financial and the sports performance of Italian football teams. To achieve this aim, a panel data analysis was performed, using financial statements and data from sports results. The panel dataset covers seven seasons (from 2007–2008 to 2013–2014) and 29 clubs that belong to the Italian “Serie A.” The results indicate positive effects between the expenses for football players’ salaries and the clubs’ sports performance but no significant effects between player transfer fees and sports performance.

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Financial Versus Sports Performance: The Missing Link

The literatures on strategy and finance have developed very separately, notwithstanding the fact that they have a common economic underpinning. Whilst a number of strategic theorists have looked at how strategic management facilitates the most effective leverage of economic resource, studies of the linkages between strategy and finance literatures are relatively few.


This appears odd because finance is pivotal in making the resource allocation decision in management, especially in major business investment and divestment decisions and in the financing strategies needed to accomplish this. Both financial management as a discipline and financing strategies also play a role in influencing stakeholder behaviour, which is critical in strategy.


Rarer still are studies of how strategy, financial management, financial strategies and stakeholders interact. With continuing examples of devastating corporates such as Enron and more recently Parmalat, it would seem surprising that theorists have been relatively disinterested in this important border between these disciplines.


This paper seeks to make a contribution to our understanding of the topic by focusing on the interesting case of the football industry. Whilst an earlier paper in this journal (Grundy, 2004) dealt with techniques for appraising strategic options to exploit product/market opportunities, financing strategy options warrant separate exploration.



Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Strategy and financial management in the football industry

British soccer has become a large, high-profile industry, but it is constantly dogged by accusations of poor management practices at club level. Yet there are few explorations into what kind of management practices would be most suitable for this industry. In this paper, the authors explore the possible financial benefits that have accrued to English professional football clubs that have developed their market orientation.

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Market orientation and financial performance of English professional football clubs

The football business has been transformed from a tawdry pastime to a major industry that is scrutinized by city analysts and is the subject of important take-over bids. Yet as Grundy observes in an earlier issue of this journal, there are few serious attempts to examine the industry with strategic rigour.




This paper reports on and analyses data from professional football clubs and uses SPACE analysis to generate strategic positions for individual clubs and a prognosis for the overall industry. This evidence enables Grundy's model of the industry to be contextualized and shows that in most respects, his ideas are supported. The paper also reveals that environmental factors play a significant role in the business success of a club. This identifies the paradox that success on the football field can have a deleterious effect on the strategic future of the club.




The paper also concludes that the structure of the industry would not support reasonable business expectations and suggests that we are observing a corporate hobby rather than modern business activity.






Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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