Managerial Beliefs and Firm Performance: Field Evidence from Professional Elite Soccer
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Keywords
Managerial Beliefs; Firm performance; Professional Soccer; Field data;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D01 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
- D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
- D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
- L20 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - General
- Z20 - Other Special Topics - - Sports Economics - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2020-12-07 (Business Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2020-12-07 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HRM-2020-12-07 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)
- NEP-ORE-2020-12-07 (Operations Research)
- NEP-SPO-2020-12-07 (Sports & Economics)
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