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Entrepreneurial orientation in sports entrepreneurship - a mixed methods analysis of professional soccer clubs in the German-speaking countries

Jonas Hammerschmidt, Fabian Eggers, Sascha Kraus, Paul Jones Orcid Logo, Matthias Filser

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Volume: 16, Issue: 3, Pages: 839 - 857

Swansea University Author: Paul Jones Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/s11365-019-00594-5

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In recent years, sports entrepreneurship has emerged as a promising discipline in the field of sports management research. However, the research field is still fragmented. This study gives an overview of sports entrepreneurship and coopetition research and is the first work analyzing EO and performa...

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Published in: International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal
ISSN: 1554-7191 1555-1938
Published: USA Springer 2020
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title Entrepreneurial orientation in sports entrepreneurship - a mixed methods analysis of professional soccer clubs in the German-speaking countries
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title_fullStr Entrepreneurial orientation in sports entrepreneurship - a mixed methods analysis of professional soccer clubs in the German-speaking countries
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description In recent years, sports entrepreneurship has emerged as a promising discipline in the field of sports management research. However, the research field is still fragmented. This study gives an overview of sports entrepreneurship and coopetition research and is the first work analyzing EO and performance in professional sports. First, quantitative results about EO, organizational per-formance and coopetition of 22 professional soccer clubs were obtained. Following the mixed method approach, the data was then extended by qualitative expert interviews. Entrepreneurial orientation had a significant positive relationship with both financial and sporting performance of professional soccer clubs in German-speaking countries during the 2017/18 season. We sug-gest coopetition as a promising strategy for professional soccer clubs to succeed. Hence, our study fosters the concept of sports entrepreneurship and offers evidence that entrepreneurial orientation is a well-suited managerial approach to enhance organizational performance in pro-fessional soccer.
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