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almahu_9948633169502882
Format:
1 online resource (224 pages).
ISBN:
9781786430915 (e-book)
Series Statement:
New horizons in the economics of sport
Content:
This book examines personnel economics within the context of the professional sport industry. Sport is an effective industry in which to empirically test theories of personnel economics, primarily because the employer-employee relationship in sport is much more visible and transparent than in almost any other industry. Researchers benefit from having data on a host of variables pertaining to individual employees (players), such as their age, race, national origin, and experience. Researchers also have data on each employee's performance, on their salary, and on who their co-workers (teammates) and managers (coaches) are. The chapters are organized around the core functional areas of personnel economics and cover all aspects of the employment relationship in sport - from recruiting and selection, to pay and performance, to work team design. Each chapter contains a thorough literature review that provides the reader with a sense of the breadth and depth of the work being done in the area, and with a sense as to how the literature can move forward, both in a sport and non-sport context. The book is suitable for an advanced undergraduate course right through to a postgraduate field-course in both management and economics. Academic researchers in the fields of sports economics, personnel economics, human resource management, strategic management and sport management will also find the book of interest.
Note:
Includes index.
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Contents: Preface -- 1. An introduction to personnel economics and its application to sport / Neil Longley -- Part I Recruiting and human capital development -- 2. The failed promise of the draft in the NFL and NBA / David Berri -- 3. The golden generation: the personnel economics of youth recruitment in European professional soccer / Joachim Prinz and Daniel Weimar -- Part II Pay, performance, and incentives -- 4. Determining the drivers of player valuation and compensation in professional sport: traditional economic approaches and emerging advances / Christian Deutscher -- 5. Multi-period contracts as risk management in professional sports / Joel Maxcy -- Part III Teamwork, and the impacts of management -- 6. Impacts of coworker heterogeneity on team performance / Rob Simmons -- 7. Pay dispersion and productivity in sports / Leo Kahane -- 8. Magicians, scapegoats and firefighters: the peculiar role of head coaches in professional soccer / Bernd Frick -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781786430908 (hardback)
Language:
English
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