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Entrepreneurship and human capital in professional sport : a longitudinal analysis of the Italian soccer league
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Radaelli, Giovanni, Dell'Era, Claudio, Frattini, Federico and Messeni Petruzzelli, Antonio (2018) Entrepreneurship and human capital in professional sport : a longitudinal analysis of the Italian soccer league. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice , 42 (1). pp. 70-93. doi:10.1177/1042258717732957 ISSN 1042-2587.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/1042258717732957
Abstract
The discovery and deployment of human capital are overlooked topics in entrepreneurship research. Professional sport can illuminate these phenomena as sport directors take huge risks in innovating rosters. Our longitudinal analysis of the Italian Serie A investigated if sport directors with greater entrepreneurial orientations toward the acquisition of new players outperformed rivals. While soccer organizations with better roster quality and accomplished managers achieved superior rankings, the acquisition of new players had non-significant effects and was moderated negatively by accomplished managers. We argue that entrepreneurs risk with ‘too many’ talents while conformity mechanisms attenuate the entrepreneurial opportunities offered by human capital.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Operations Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Soccer managers -- Statistics -- Italy, Entrepreneurship | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1042-2587 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 January 2018 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 42 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 70-93 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/1042258717732957 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 6 July 2017 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 23 January 2018 |
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