Can Strategic Management of Professional Football Clubs Lead to a Sustainable Advantage?: Prediction of Success and Failure of German Professional Football Clubs

Dissertation o. Habilitation

The dissertation comprises four manuscripts that aim to enhance the knowledge on strategic man-agement of professional football clubs within Germany, especially with regard to the prediction of success. Apart from manuscript A which is a review of extant literature of football manage-ment variables leading to success, and manuscript B, which is a qualitative investigation on sus-tainable success factors affecting professional football clubs, the remaining manuscripts C and D comprise two empirical studies; they can be further partitioned in manuscript C, investigating the prediction of failure with the worst-case scenario of bankruptcy and manuscript D, covering the prediction of failure and success in a proof of concept based on machine learning.

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Wirtschaft

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Schregel, Johannes Philipp
• Event: Herstellung
• (who): Zülch, Henning ; Kanbach, Dominik ; HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-767290
• Last update: 14.03.2025, 8:16 AM CET