Titre :

Organisational efficiency of national football leagues in Europe

Auteur(s) :

Terrien, Mickael [Auteur]
Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Sport, Santé, Société (URePSSS) - ULR 7369 - ULR 4488 [URePSSS]
Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Sport, Santé, Société (URePSSS) - ULR 7369
Andreff, Wladimir [Auteur]
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne [UP1]
Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne [CES]

Titre de la revue :

European Sport Management Quarterly

Nom court de la revue :

Eur. Sport Manag. Q.

Date de publication :

2019-04-03

ISSN :

1618-4742

Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :

Performance mesaurement
data envelopment analysis
European football leagues
efficiency
organisations

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Résumé en anglais : [en]

Research question: National football leagues are organisations with multidimensional and idiosyncratic objectives according to one train of thought among the theories of organisational management. Starting from this ...
Lire la suite >Research question: National football leagues are organisations with multidimensional and idiosyncratic objectives according to one train of thought among the theories of organisational management. Starting from this standpoint, the paper aims at providing an analytical framework for empirically assessing sport leagues organisational performance across several European countries and comparing them in terms of their organisational efficiency. Research methods: The novelty consists in using at league level a methodology – a Data Envelopment Analysis – which has been confined so far to the study of club efficiency in the existing literature. The league sample is limited to 36 observable leagues out of 55 UEFA member leagues over 2010–2015 due to data paucity. Results and findings: Efficiency scores, checked with several robustness tests, exhibit a scattered efficiency across European football leagues. Part of the observed inefficiency is linked to decreasing returns to scale, the rest being due to purely inefficient management. The paper also provides a delineation of peer efficiency groups for each league under evaluation. Implications: There is a managerial recommendation to use peer groups as international benchmarks for improving football leagues’ efficiency. Benchmarking best practices may assist the less well-performing leagues in signalling to them which other leagues’ experience could be an example to follow on their path toward organisational improvement.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Comité de lecture :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Vulgarisation :

Non

Établissement(s) :

Univ. Littoral Côte d’Opale
Univ. Artois
Université de Lille

Collections :

• Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Sport, Santé, Société (URePSSS) - ULR 7369

Équipe(s) de recherche :

Responsabilité des acteurs du sport et de l’éducation

Date de dépôt :

2019-09-24T07:26:37Z
2024-02-26T09:35:51Z