Purpose The main goal of this paper is to evaluate the players' contribution and economic
value in the soccer industry. Media visibility records provide us with comparable metrics to …

Institutional and legal reforms applied in the context of sports competitions often provoke
structural changes that can be empirically investigated. Using a data set of 560 observations …

Purpose The presented study aims to identify and classify the value factors that influence the
value of football clubs from the stakeholder perspective, while also discussing how these …

The literature acknowledges “Uncertainty of Outcome”(UO) as a major factor to explain the
degree of interest that sporting competitions draw from fans and the general public …

This paper contributes to understanding the financial situation of European football clubs
and the role of their media visibility and historical brand status. By estimating production and …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to accomplish several goals. First, it studies the
relevance of the sports sector as part of the entertainment industry. Second, it identifies …

Purpose The paper aims to revisit the debate on the priorities of football clubs in talent hiring
with respect to maximizing sporting performance or economic profitability. Based on the …

Objective The ranking of countries in the Olympic Games generates a great deal of interest
among analysts, academics, and fans. This article proposes an innovative approach to …

In this paper we analyse empirically the factors explaining the degree of media visibility in
four major European football leagues, by means of an econometric model in which clubs' …

Professional sports are part of the entertainment industry; as such, its business is developed
based on the perceived interest in sporting events, which in turn depends on features like …