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Beyond Sporting Talent: Other Determinants of Football Clubs’ Wage Bills

open access: yesBulletin of Economic Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article delves into the understanding of how football clubs determine wage bills to compensate talent. Using data from first‐division teams in elite European leagues, we estimate wage models based on indicators of sporting performance, “Elo ratings” as a proxy for clubs’ historical achievements and brand strength, and “media visibility ...
Alice Aguiar‐Noury   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Brain Drain and Productivity Growth: Evidence From South Africa, 1947–2019

open access: yesEconomics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper provides empirical evidence of how high‐level human capital outflow could affect TFP‐based economic development and vice versa. The concern of potential endogeneity between brain drain and economic development is addressed directly.
Johannes Fedderke, Xiaodi Dong
wiley   +1 more source

Broke Autocrats, Broken Elections: Trade Shocks and Electoral Fraud in Autocracies

open access: yesEconomics &Politics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We argue that when terms‐of‐trade (ToT) shocks reduce resource rents, autocrats lose the fiscal capacity to sustain loyalty through patronage and increasingly rely on electoral manipulation as a survival strategy. We present a simple model in which rents finance patronage in normal times, while adverse shocks reduce the effectiveness of ...
Antonis Adam, Sofia Tsarsitalidou
wiley   +1 more source

Start(up) with purpose: How goal‐ and duty‐based purpose drive work engagement and performance in startups

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although organizational purpose (OP) has recently gained attention in entrepreneurship research, its motivational potential in startups remains underexplored, limiting the development of effective purpose‐driven strategies to enhance employee work engagement (WE) and startup performance.
Julien A. Nussbaum   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unlocking female CEOs' contribution to the internationalization of family‐controlled firms

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Are female CEOs better or worse than male CEOs for the internationalization of family‐controlled firms? By addressing this question, we draw on Upper Echelons Theory (UET) and complement it with insights from the Behavioral Theory of the Firm (BTF) to examine the moderating role of governance and ownership openness. Using a large panel of 2150
Alfredo D'Angelo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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