ABSTRACT Research Question (s): Emotions play a critical role in the leadership process.
Relatively little is known about the management of emotions and its impact on individual …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to critically review the part of the leader succession
literature which is based on coach turnover in sport teams. The aim of this paper is to assess …

The purpose of this study was to understand how radical organizational change impacts the
effectiveness of national-level sport organizations from the perspectives of internal and …

Previous research has examined the effect of changes in upper management positions on
actual organizational performance; however, the influence of leadership changes on …

This study integrates upper echelons theory into the sport management literature by
investigating general manager (GM) strategic decision-making in the National Basketball …

Purpose Although leadership succession is a popular area of study across different
professional sports leagues, existing research has largely ignored South America despite …

Researchers focusing on coach dismissal often examine organizational performance as an
antecedent; however, there has been minimal attention to the ways in which countervailing …

This article develops a model of managerial efficiency for National Collegiate Athletic
Association's top division college football coaches. The derived efficiency measures are …

A superficial attitude in football insists on blaming head coaches when games are lost.
Controversially, however, whereas decision-makers in professional football clubs claim to …

Scholarship has established that characteristics of a firm's upper echelon affect firm-level
outcomes in a range of industries. In professional sport, firms depend on live game …