The effectiveness of coach turnover and the effect on home team advantage,team quality and team ranking |
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| Authors: | Anne-Line Balduck Anita Prinzie Marc Buelens |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Movement and Sports Sciences , Ghent University , Watersportlaan 2, 9000 , Ghent , Belgium;2. Department of Management , Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Ghent University , Ghent , Belgium;3. Marketing Group, Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester , Manchester , UK;4. Department of Marketing , Ghent University , Ghent , Belgium;5. Department of Management , Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Ghent University , Ghent , Belgium;6. Department of People and Organisation , Vlerick Leuven Ghent Management School , Ghent , Belgium |
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| Abstract: | The effectiveness of coach turnover on team performance is widely discussed in the literature due to the indirect impact of a team's performance on a club's revenues. This study examines the effect of coach turnover within a competition season by focusing on the change in team quality and the change in home team advantage under the new coach. The change in team quality or home team advantage can vary according to the team (team specific) or might be an independent quantity (non-team specific). We estimated nine possible regression models, given no change, team-specific change and non-team-specific change in quality or home team advantage. The data are the match results of Belgian male soccer teams playing in the highest national division during seven seasons. Results point to a team-specific effect of a new coach on a team's quality. This article further contributes by evaluating the new coach's success with regard to whether his ability to improve team quality also results in a better position of the team in the final ranking. A new coach will be able to improve the ranking of the team if the improved team quality under the new coach renders a positive team quality. |
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| Keywords: | managerial change home team advantage team performance team quality regression model individual match data team ranking |
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