Research Workshop Advancing Management Theory with Sports Data
From May 6 to May 7 the Center for Sports & Business hosted its third research workshop titled "Advancing Management Theory with Sports Data". The goal of the workshop was twofold. First, to help management scholars develop papers leveraging sports contexts. To do so, researchers with publishing experience using sports data and journal editors will provide developmental feedback on early ideas and working papers accepted for the workshop. Second, to develop and strengthen a community aiming at furthering management research using sports data.
Keynote from Juliane Reinecke
The two-day workshop included, in total, three paper sessions, two early idea sessions, as well as two idea generation sessions. Participants included, among others, Fabio Fonti (NEOMA Business School), Fabrizio Castellucci (Bocconi University), Felix Arndt (University of Guelph), Jan-Michael Ross (Imperial College London), and Norman O'Reilly (University of New England).
Topics that were discussed during the research workshop included sports washing, rivalry, incentive systems, as well as climate change.
Felix Arndt, University of Guelph
Agenda
Third Paper and Idea Development Workshop "Advancing Management Theory with Sports Data"
May 6
13:00-13:10 - Introduction, Martin Carlsson-Wall (Director, Center for Sports & Business, SSE), Fabio Fonti (NEOMA Business School & Fellow, Center for Sports & Business, SSE) and Felix Arndt (University of Guelph & Fellow, Center for Sports & Business, SSE)
13:10-13:40 - Keynote, Juliane Reinecke (University of Oxford Said Business School & SHL Visiting Professor Center for Sports & Business, SSE)
Paper Session 1
13:40-14:05 - Presenter: Geppert et al. (soccer). Discussant: Felix Arndt
14:05-14:30 - Presenter: Robertson et al. (NBA, WNBA). Discussant: Fabrizio Castellucci
14:30-14:55 - Presenter: Grohsjean (soccer). Discussant: Patrick Hallila
Moderated by Norm O'Reilly
14:55-15:10 - Breakout groups (meet the authors for discussion in separate tables)
Early Idea Session 1
15:10-15:25 - Presenter: Arndt (soccer). Discussant: Benedikt Seigner
15:25-15:40 - Presenter: Mithani (cricket). Discussant: Winslow Robertson
15:40-15:55 - Breakout groups (meet the authors for discussion in separate tables)
15:55-16:20 - Coffee break
Paper Session 2
16:20-16:45 - Presenter: Moliterno (baseball). Discussant: Paolo Aversa
16:45-17:10 - Presenter: Aversa et al. (ski equipment manufacturing). Discussant: Andrea Lucarelli
17:10-17:35 - Presenter: Hallila (hockey). Discussant: Thorsten Grohsjean
Moderated by Jan-Michael Ross
17:35-17:50 - Breakout groups (meet the authors for discussion in separate tables)
Idea Generation Session 1
2 rounds of 20-minute breakout groups (3-4 people per group, randomly allocated). Task: come up with a viable paper collaboration idea.
17:50-18:10 - Round 1
18:10-18:30 - Round 2
May 7
09:00-09:10 - Introduction, Martin Carlsson-Wall, Director, Center for Sports & Business, SSE
Early Idea Session 2
09:10-09:25 - Presenter: Shahriar et al. (various sports, soccer). Discussant: Martin Carlsson-Wall
09:25-09:40 - Presenter: Seigner & Kretschmer (ballroom dancing). Discussant: Mike Geppert
09:40-09:55 - Breakout groups (meet the authors for discussion in separate tables)
Idea Generation Session 2
2 rounds of 20-minute breakout groups (3-4 people per group, randomly allocated). Task: come up with a viable paper collaboration idea.
09:55-10:15 - Round 1
10:15-10:35 - Round 2
10:35-11:00 - Coffe Break
Paper Session 3
11:00-11:25 - Presenter: Castellucci (soccer). Discussant: Jan Ross
11:25-11:50 - Presenter: Fonti et al. (soccer). Discussant: Tom Moliterno
11:50-12:15 - Presenter: Terry & McGee (MLB). Discussant: Fabio Fonti
Moderated by Martin Carlsson-Wall
12:15-12:40 - Breakout groups (meet the authors for discussion in three separate tables)
12:40-14:00 - Lunch Break
14:00-15:00 - Wrap up roundtable
Moderator: Martin Carlsson-Wall)
How can sports data be useful for advancing management theory? What opportunities have been underexplored so far? How can we further build our community? 5 min each panelist + open Q&A
Panelists: Juliane Reinecke (University of Oxford), Tom Moliterno (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Paolo Aversa (King's College London), and Fabio Fonti (NEOMA Business School)
List of Papers and Early Ideas
Papers
Aversa, P., Bettiol, M., Capestro, M., Di Maria, E., & Ozcan, P. Cluster rebooting: Technological adaptation in localized industries.
Castellucci, F., Keil, T., & Piazza, A. Shooting for glory or for the team: Performance feedback, status, and risk-taking.
Fonti, F., Nakamura, A., & Datar, A. Losing stars: The role of social capital in talent retention.
Geppert, M., Goldenstein, J., & Jasper, L. Ownership concentration in organizations of public interest: The case of European professional men’s football.
Grohsjean, T. Collaborating within, competing outside: Employees’ extra-organizational affiliations and intra-organizational collaboration.
Hallila, P. Interfirm competition's dual role: Mitigating or exacerbating internal competitions' effect on firm performance.
Moliterno, T. Lucky or good? An empirical analysis of resource-picking in strategic factor markets.
Robertson, W., Barriola, X., Rheinhardt, A., & Maoret, M. The owner has to go: How platform activists in racialized and gendered organizations mobilize organizational resources.
Terry, R., & McGee. Chasing stars: Firm and environmental factors influencing the external hiring of star employees.
Early Ideas
Arndt, F., & Aharonson, B. Analyzing CEO origin and characteristics and firm performance through Bundesliga soccer data.
Mithani, M. How data on cricket helps integrate prospect theory and the behavioral theory of the firm.
Seigner, B, & Kretschmer, T. Evaluator panel heterogeneity and favoritism: Evidence from competitive ballroom dancing.
Shahriar, H., Lucarelli, A., & Ulver, S. Sportswashing in the Western marketplace.
List of Participants
Angelo Augusto Caldas Bello, Stockholm School of Economics
Benedikt Seigner, IE University
Fabio Fonti*, NEOMA Business School
Fabrizio Castellucci*, Bocconi University
Fanny Almersson*, Stockholm School of Economics
Felix Arndt*, University of Guelph
Hossain Shahriar, Lund University School of Economics and Management
Ipek Kocoglu, Kean University
Jan-Michael Ross*, Imperial College London
Juan Fuentes Fernández, La Liga Spain
Juliane Reinecke*, University of Oxford
Martin Carlsson-Wall*, Stockholm School of Economics
Mike Geppert, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Murad Mithani, Rutgers University
Nadège Levallet, University of Maine
Norman O’Reilly, University of New England
Paolo Aversa*, King’s College London
Patrick Hallila*, Imperial College London
Ryan P. Terry, Wichita State University
Thorsten Grohsjean*, Bocconi University
Tom Moliterno*, VU Amsterdam
Winslow Robertson, IESE Business School
* Fellow, Center for Sport and Business, SSE
