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Chair: Paolo Aversa, Cass Business School, City U. London Organizer: Jan-Michael Ross, Imperial College London Organizer: Dmitry Sharapov, Imperial College London Presenter: Martin J. Kilduff, UCL School of Management Presenter: Thomas P. Moliterno, U. of Massachusetts, Amherst Presenter: Matthew S. Bothner, ESMT European School of Management and Technology Presenter: Richard Donald Cotton, U. of Victoria Presenter: Yan Shen, U. of Victoria Presenter: Reut Livne-Tarandach, U. of Oregon Presenter: Fabrizio Castellucci, Bocconi U. / SDA Bocconi
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Publishing rigorous and relevant research in top management journals often requires rich and viable data that allow challenging and compelling research questions to be investigated. Thus, recent years have seen an increase in studies using sport data to advance management theory. Professional sport comprises multi-billion dollar industries worthy of attention per se, and is also a field where individual- and organization-level variables interplay in competitive environments characterized by the pursuit of common goals. Due to this, professional sport represents an attractive empirical setting for management research. Furthermore, sport data are often publicly available, longitudinal, and fine-grained. However, sport settings combine research opportunities with non-trivial challenges that require further reflection: First, sports greatly differ in their nature, and it is not always easy to choose the most suitable sport contexts to respond to the research questions. Second, in sport settings generalizability of results is less evident than in traditional industries, and readers and reviewers often display skepticism about external validity and generalizability of findings to business contexts. By bringing together a panel of scholars experienced in publishing management research with sport data, this PDW will provide theoretical and methodological support for scholars who are in the process of using sport data or who plan to use sport as a setting to study their research questions. |
Search Terms: Sport | Management Theory | Research Methods |
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