Life cycles or longer tenures? A performance and employment duration model for Spanish basketball coaches

This work has been partially funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education (project ECO2010-20483) and the Regional Government of Andalusia (project P11-SEJ-7988).This study analyses the effect of basketball coaches on performance and the question of life cycles on their tenures. From theoretical perspectives like coach-performance relationship, succession theories, life cycle theory,and based on a longitudinal analysis from 1997 to 2012 of a professional Spanish basketball league, we show that the objective established at the season’s start and coach quality positively influence team performance, that a mid-season coaching change negatively influences performance, and the existence of longer tenures coaches that improve team performance. The work is especially interested for sport managers, sport coaches in their decisions-taking, but it is useful to general management to understand the consequences of the tenures or dismissals of their key managers on results.Spanish Ministry of Education ECO2010-20483Regional Government of Andalusia P11-SEJ-798

High performance of professional basketball players and the settings to measure their regularity: evidence from the Spanish ACB League

Available at: <http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/ejasa/article/view/19295/17877In this paper, we analyse the relationship between performance and regularity to avoid the problem to the use of averages in sports statistics given their sensitivity to extreme data. The aim of this work is to establish which statistics discriminate between the high and low performance and regularity of basketball players using a performance-regularity index. The sample is composed of players from the Spanish professional basketball league, ACB League, from 2014-2015. We divided the sample into players with low, medium and high performance and regularity through a k-means method and a discriminant analysis associating high numbers of rebounds, assists and steals with high performance and regularity and higher numbers of 3- point shots, turnovers and fouls with low performance and regularity. These results should help coaches and sports managers design strategies that improve performance and recruiting for their teams.En este trabajo se analiza la relación entre rendimiento y regularidad para evitar el problema que supone el uso de medias en las estadísticas deportivas dada su sensibilidad a los datos extremos. El objetivo de este trabajo es establecer qué estadísticas iscriminan entre el alto y bajo rendimiento y regularidad de los jugadores de baloncesto utilizando un índice rendimiento-regularidad. La muestra está compuesta por jugadores de la liga profesional española de baloncesto, Liga ACB, de 2014-2015. Dividimos la muestra en jugadores con bajo, medio y alto rendimiento y regularidad a través de un método k-means y un análisis discriminante asociando altos números de rebotes, asistencias y robos con alto rendimiento y regularidad y mayores números de tiros de 3 puntos, pérdidas de balón y faltas con bajo rendimiento y regularidad. Estos resultados deberían ayudar a entrenadores y gestores deportivos a diseñar estrategias que mejoren el rendimiento y la captación de sus equipos.Proyecto ECO2013-47009-PProyecto P11-SEJ-798

Recovering performance in the short term after coach succession in Spanish basketball organisations

This work has been partially funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education (project ECO2013-47009-P) and the Regional Government of Andalusia (project P11-SEJ-7988). The authors want to thank the members of the research group, “Innovation, Sustainability and Business Development” (SEJ-481).Research papers on succession processes in sports organisations have usually shown contradictory results. Several factors can explain the different effects on performance after changes, so the purpose of this paper is to obtain a better understanding of coach changes and their impacts on short-term performance. For this purpose, we use ordinary least squares (with Stata) to analyse panel data from a longitudinal sample of 15 years (from the 1997–1998 season to the 2011–2012 season) of Spanish professional basketball organisations, examining all changes in head coaches that occurred during the teams’ competitive seasons using the variables of coach experience or human capital changes within the organisation after the change of coach to determine the repercussions of these changes on performance. The results, with p < .05, support two hypotheses: H2, the possibility of short-term improved performance in organisations after a coach change; and H3, if a coach change is accompanied by more profound changes in human capital (players) the result is worse performance. These results are not contradictory because they indicate that it is possible to recover performance in the short term, but if managers make too many changes at the same time, the team cannot coordinate itself to recover its performance. For organisations, this observation is important because organisations can change key leaders when performance is low but must consider that a large number of simultaneous changes are overly risky because this increases instability and disruption.Spanish Ministry of Education (project ECO2013-47009-P)Regional Government of Andalusia (project P11-SEJ-7988

A multicriteria selection system based on player performance. Case study: The Spanish ACB Basketball League

In this paper, we describe an approach to rank sport players based on their efficiency. Although is extremely useful to analyze the performance of team games there is no unanimity on the use of a single index to perform such a ranking. We propose a method to summarize the huge amount of information collected at different aspects of a sport team which is almost daily publicly available. The tool will allow agents involved in a player's negotiation to show the strengths (and weaknesses) of the player with respect to other players. The approach is based on applying a multicriteria outranking methodology using as alternatives the potential players and criteria different efficiency indices. A novel automatic parameter tuning approach is detailed that will allow coaches and sports managers to design templates and sports strategies that improve the efficiency of their teams. We report the results performed over the available information on the ACB Basketball League, and we show how it can be easily implemented and interpreted in practice by decision-makers non familiar with the mathematical side of the methodology.Comment: 17 pages, 6 Tables, 4 Figure

Relationship between institutional factors and entrepreneurship: a quantitative analysis

La mayoría de los trabajos publicados sobre la relación entre los factores institucionales y emprendedores adolecen de un adecuado estudio empírico. Debido a la importancia que ha adquerido en los últimos años el entorno institucional, consideramos necesario un análisis riguroso mediante técnicas estadísticas cuantitativas. El objetivo del presente trabajo es el análisis empírico de la relación entre el entorno institucional y la orientación emprendedora de la empresa española, partiendo de la identificación teórica y empírica de las dimensiones reguladora, cognitiva y normativa para el entorno institucional y las dimensiones de innovación, asunción de riesgos, proactividad y autonomía para analizar el comportamiento emprendedor.The majority of published studies about the relation between institutional and entrepreneurial factors lack of an adequate empirical study. Due to the importance that the institutional environment has acquired in the last few years, we consider necessary a rigorous analysis using quantitative statistical techniques. The aim of this paper is the empirical analysis of the relationship between institutional and entrepreneurial orientation Spanish company, based on theoretical and empirical identification of regulatory, cognitive and normative dimensions for the institutional environment and the dimensions of innovation, risk assumption, proactivity, and autonomy to analyze the entrepreneurial behavior

Propuesta de aplicación de la teoría sociológica institucional como marco teórico para el análisis del emprendimiento corporativo.

Este artículo presenta los aspectos más relevantes de la teoría sociológica institucional como marco teórico para el análisis de los factores condicionantes del emprendimiento corporativo. El modelo teórico presentado incluye la influencia institucional en su análisis y pretende explicar las relaciones existentes entre las distintas dimensiones que componen el entorno institucional, regulador, normativo y cognitivo y el emprendimiento corporativo. El trabajo subraya que el fomento de una educación empresarial y la relevancia de la innovación como un pilar de la sociedad pueden cambiar los modelos de orientación estratégica que tengan las organizaciones hacia posiciones emprendedoras. Asimismo, la existencia de un marco regulador que facilite el emprendimiento ayudará a la puesta en práctica de actividades emprendedoras por parte de las organizaciones

Stimulating the entrepreneurial orientation of SMEs: the influence of the institutional environment

Esta versión es la enviada a la revista para su revisión. El artículo final aceptado se encuentra publicado en International Journal of Business Environment: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBE.2012.046215 This version is the one submitted to the journal for review. The final accepted article is published in International Journal of Business Environment: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBE.2012.046215.This paper aims to highlight the importance of institutional theory in analysing entrepreneurship. In order to do that, an empirical analysis of how the institutional environment influences the entrepreneurial orientation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been performed. The model presented in this study starts from the analysis of the dimensions of the institutional environment that have been empirically less analysed: the cognitive and normative dimensions, as well as the entrepreneurial orientation in terms of proactiveness, innovativeness and risk-taking. Our results contribute to the current entrepreneurship research as they expand the development of the relationships between institutions and entrepreneurship.Proyecto ECO2010-20483Proyecto P06-SEJ-405

Propuesta de aplicación de la teoría sociológica institucional como marco teórico para el análisis del emprendimiento corporativo.

Este artículo presenta los aspectos más relevantes de la teoría sociológica institucional como marco teórico para el análisis de los factores condicionantes del emprendimiento corporativo. El modelo teórico presentado incluye la influencia institucional en su análisis y pretende explicar las relaciones existentes entre las distintas dimensiones que componen el entorno institucional, regulador, normativo y cognitivo y el emprendimiento corporativo. El trabajo subraya que el fomento de una educación empresarial y la relevancia de la innovación como un pilar de la sociedad pueden cambiar los modelos de orientación estratégica que tengan las organizaciones hacia posiciones emprendedoras. Asimismo, la existencia de un marco regulador que facilite el emprendimiento ayudará a la puesta en práctica de actividades emprendedoras por parte de las organizaciones. This article presents the most relevant aspects of institutional sociological theory as a theoretical framework for the analysis of the determinants of corporate entrepreneurship. Our theoretical model includes the institutional influence in its analysis and aims to explain the links between different dimensions that make up the institutional and corporate entrepreneurship. Our study stresses that the promotion of entrepreneurial education and the importance of innovation as a pillar of society can change in the patterns organization’s strategic orientation to entrepreneurial positions. Likewise, the existence of a regulatory framework to facilitate the undertaking will help the implementation of entrepreneurial activities by organizations.teoría institucional, emprendimiento corporativo, orientación emprendedora, CIP, educación empresarial e innovación. Institutional theory, corporate entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial orientation, CIP, business education and innovation.

Benefit Communication and Its Effects on Employees’ Benefit Level Satisfaction: The Multiple Mediating Effects of POS and Benefit Comparison

Se trata de la versión borrador enviada a la revista para su revisión. El artículo aceptado y publicado se encuentra en: https://doi.org/10.1177/2329488420943667 This is the draft version sent to the journal for review. The accepted and published article can be found at: https://doi.org/10.1177/2329488420943667Many firms offer employees a broad range of benefits as part of their compensation. However, little attention has been given to the extent to which firms communicate with their employees in relation to such benefits. This study proposes that benefit communication can have both direct and indirect positive effects on employees’ benefit level satisfaction. The effects of benefit communication were examined by means of a survey among 828 employees of different Spanish firms. This study hypothesized and found that benefit communication led to increased benefit level satisfaction. Similarly, this study found that benefit communication can influence benefit level satisfaction through the multiple intermediating effects of employees’ perceived organizational support and employees’ comparison of their benefits with those of referent others. These results imply that academics and practitioners must pay attention to providing adequate benefit communication in order to ensure the effectiveness of benefits.Muchas empresas ofrecen a sus empleados una amplia gama de prestaciones como parte de su remuneración. Sin embargo, se ha prestado poca atención al grado en que las empresas se comunican con sus empleados en relación con dichas prestaciones. Este estudio propone que la comunicación sobre las prestaciones puede tener efectos positivos tanto directos como indirectos en el nivel de satisfacción de los empleados con las prestaciones. Los efectos de la comunicación de beneficios se examinaron mediante una encuesta realizada a 828 empleados de diferentes empresas españolas. Este estudio hipotetizó y encontró que la comunicación de beneficios condujo a un aumento de la satisfacción del nivel de beneficios. Asimismo, este estudio encontró que la comunicación de beneficios puede influir en la satisfacción del nivel de beneficios a través de los múltiples efectos intermediarios del apoyo organizativo percibido por los empleados y la comparación de los empleados de sus beneficios con los de otros referentes. Estos resultados implican que los académicos y los profesionales deben prestar atención a la comunicación adecuada de los beneficios para garantizar su eficacia.Proyecto ECO2016-75909-PProyecto ECO2017-88222-PProyecto PP2016-PJI0