Personal welfare and intellectual capital: the case of football coaches

Aleksandrovna, Oskolkova Marina; Naidenova, Iuliia; Tomé, Eduardo

doi:10.1108/jic-06-2013-0064

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“…Their value creation process is based on the interaction of their knowledge assets (e.g., professional football players as human capital; club branding as image, reputation, and relational capital; information and communication technology as structural capital), and to achieve their objectives, these resources have to be combined efficiently. Football players represent the human capital in KIOs (Lardo et al, 2017; Lombardi et al, 2020; Tomé et al, 2014) and the factor that mainly affects the final result. Due to the sector characteristics, we assumed the temporary or permanent contractual horizon or timing by workers as the duration of the contract.…”

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“…Football players represent the human capital in KIOs (Lardo et al, 2017;Lombardi et al, 2020;Tomé et al, 2014) and the factor that mainly affects the final result. Due to the sector characteristics, we assumed the temporary or permanent contractual horizon or timing by workers as the duration of the contract.…”

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“…Professional football is not to be considered a mere sporting competition; it is a complex system of economic, social, and political structures and having a significant financial and cultural impact. Professional football clubs are knowledge enterprises (Lombardi, Trequattrini, Cuozzo, & Paoloni, 2020; Secundo, Schiuma, & Passiante, 2017; Trequattrini, Lardo, Cuozzo, & Cano Rubio, 2017) and football players represent both the human capital and a relevant category of stakeholders by knowledge enterprise (Lardo, Dumay, Trequattrini, & Russo, 2017; Lombardi et al, 2020; Tomé, Naidenova, & Oskolkova, 2014) and the main factor influencing the final result by this kind of organizations.…”

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The profitable relationship among corporate social responsibility and human resource management: A new sustainable key factor

Lombardi

Manfredi

Cuozzo

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been increasingly investigated assuming several perspectives. In this scenario, human resources and particularly employees are the most relevant groups of stakeholders playing a key role in all kind of organizations. Thus, this paper aims at investigating the profitable connection between CSR and human resource management (HRM). We investigate which factors determine responsible and sustainable practices in the management of the employees' typology contracts guaranteeing CSR and its principles. The employees' contract typology is recognized as a sustainable key factor in influencing corporate performance. Through an empirical analysis in the football industry, we investigate if the work contracts' average duration by football players affects the performance of their clubs. Our results demonstrate that organizations assuming stabilization and long timing in the employees' contract are going to achieve sustainable performance assuring socially responsible practices and CSR. The awareness of the existence of a correlation between the duration of the contract and the company performance could be exploited by managers of all organizations in identifying the optimal strategy and the effectiveness in the implementation of CSR. Thus, a new sustainable key factor in assuring CSR and HRM is proposed: the employees' contractual horizon/timing.

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“…They also revealed that for evaluating a coach, the following points shouold be considered: the difference of the status of the team in the national league during the year, the status of the team in the competition table during the year, his image in the media, his personal history, being a former footballer, having sports activity in the team currently coaching, the championships won with the present team in previous years, the quality of the team's play, and the age of the individual. Additionally, the paper states that the most important factor affecting the price of coaches is nothing but their communication capital (19).…”

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Designing an Economic Valuation Model of the Intangible Assets of Volleyball Clubs in Iran

Sahebkaran

Talebpour

Keshtidar

et al. 2019

AASSJ

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Background. Several studies have been conducted on the valuation of the intangible assets of organizations not relating to sport. However, there is no comprehensive study in the sport organizations especially in Iran. It is not clear what criteria are required at different levels by the sport organizations especially volleyball clubs to evaluate their intangible assets. Objectives. In spite of the increasing importance of the intangible assets in various industries, little has been done on the identification of the underlying factors and valuation of this category of assets in sport industry. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to design an economic valuation model of the intangible assets of the volleyball clubs in Iran. Methods. The sample of the present study in the qualitative section consisted of 47 subjects with 600 subjects participating in the quantitative section. Through application of Cochran formula, the sample size was estimated to be 234 subjects. The study was conducted in a survey method. To this end, first, the intangible assets of the Iranian volleyball clubs were identified using a qualitative method and then analyzed through structural equation modeling (SEM) PLS3 and SPSS22. Results. The factors with the greatest effects on economic valuation of intangible assets of Iranian volleyball clubs were communication capital, spiritual capital, structural capital and human capital. Thus, it was found that in the economic valuation of intangible assets of Iranian volleyball clubs, the indices such as the relationship between investors and partners and their loyalty in communication capital had the highest value among other indices. Further, the club history and success had the same status in promoting spiritual capital, governing culture of the club, development outlook document of the club in the structural capital, management of contracts, and the number of national players in the club in human capital. Conclusion. The results of the present study suggested that the proposed conceptual model can be applied by researchers, administrative and financial managers of volleyball clubs and the experts of the privatization organization to have a more comprehensive and precise evaluation of the valuation of intangible assets of a club.

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“…Footballers represent the human capital in this type of enterprise (Tomé et al, 2014;Lardo et al, 2017), and, from this perspective, there are very few studies on management strategies that are based on conscious and/or unconscious discrimination on the part of professional football clubs in the pursuit of their aims, such as increase attendance, profitability, and chances of winning.…”

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Exploring human capital: Discrimination factors and group-specific performance in the football industry

Trequattrini¹,

Lardo²,

Ricci³

et al. 2017

Afr. J. Bus. Manage.

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The aim of the study is to investigate whether discrimination factors exist within professional football clubs, concerning the management of their human capital, by analysing the correlation between the footballers' wages and their performance. An analysis was conducted to show that discrimination, based both on nationality and race, can affect the strategies adopted by football club managers and in the professional footballer labour market, where players are considered to be the human capital of football enterprises. The research framework consists of an analysis of the existing literature on discrimination in sports and of a quantitative analysis based on an exploratory approach, where the wage differences among Italian Serie A league footballers are compared to the performance of each group of players (organised by race or nationality). The results of the analysis of data for all Italian Serie A clubs show that discrimination (in pay) exists against Italian and white players. In contrast, when small and big clubs are considered separately, the findings relating to small clubs highlight that foreign and black players face such discrimination. The results suggest that managers of professional football clubs apply a discrimination strategy. In addition, the results provide practical implications on the types of discrimination errors that are committed by the management of big and small football clubs. Big clubs tend to overrate the contributions of foreign and/or black players compared to those of Italian and white players, while small clubs tend to overrate the contributions of Italian and white players compared to those of foreign and black players. To reduce discrimination, clubs have to correlate how much players are paid with their performance. Further research is recommended to identify the impact of wage inequality on the football labour market and on professional team management.

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Personal welfare and intellectual capital: the case of football coaches

Cited by 10 publications

References 18 publications

The profitable relationship among corporate social responsibility and human resource management: A new sustainable key factor

The profitable relationship among corporate social responsibility and human resource management: A new sustainable key factor

Designing an Economic Valuation Model of the Intangible Assets of Volleyball Clubs in Iran

Exploring human capital: Discrimination factors and group-specific performance in the football industry

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