Book Review: Winners and Losers: The Business Strategy of Football

By Rob Simmons. 2001

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“Competitive Balance in Sports Leagues: An Introduction” (2003, background): “The ACB literature includes Demmert (1973), Scully (1989), Balfour and Porter (1991), Quirk and Fort (1992), Vrooman (1995), Butler (1995), Fort and Quirk (1995), Szymanski and Kuypers (1999), Dobson, Goddard, and Ramlogan (2001), Eckard (2001a, 2001b), Fort (2001), Schmidt (2001), and Maxcy (2002).”
Testing Causality Between Team Performance and Payroll (2002, methodology): “This data set, together with other accounting variables until 1997, can be found in Szymanski and Kuypers (1999).”
Competitive Balance in Sports Leagues (2002, background): “For an excellent discussion of Manchester United (MU) and other aspects of the English soccer industry, see Szymanski and Kuypers (2000).”
Owner Objectives and Competitive Balance (2004, background): “Szymanski and Kuypers (1999) argue that Division I of English Football (the Premiership) clearly most resembles the PM case, right down to the incentives to offer equity shares.”
Globalization or Internationalization? Foreign Footballers in the English League, 1946-95 (2002, background): “…while information on attendances was obtained from Tabner (1992) and Rothmans Football Yearbooks (1991–7).6 The advantage of attendance figures is that they give an estimation of club income in an era when match attendances provided much of the clubs’ revenue (Szymanski and Kuypers, 1999: 38).”
Income Inequality, Competitive Balance and the Attractiveness of Team Sports: Some Evidence and a Natural Experiment from English Soccer (2001, background): “In any 4 Kuypers (1997) and Szymanski and Kuypers (1999) provide a useful survey; for an earlier survey see Cairns et al. (1986).”
A Market Test for Discrimination in the English Professional Soccer Leagues (2000, background): “Effective freedom of contract dates from 1978.6 3 Szymanski and Kuypers (1999) provide a historical overview, and Hoehn and Szymanski (1999) survey the main differences between the organization of soccer in Europe and that of American team sports.”