ABSTRACT

This paper utilises the political ideology literature in conjunction with frameworks of sport ownership to investigate the link between franchise owners’ political ideology and organisation-level performance outcomes. A sample of 300 PSF-year observations tied to 43 unique owners was used to investigate the proposed relationships. The results do not support the idea that an owner’s political leanings impact many facets of how the PSF is managed. However, and contradictory to what was hypothesised, it is shown that liberal owners are associated with a higher cost of attendance, controlling for a range of other factors at the owner, team, city, league, and national levels. The results provide a foundation that can inform the continued discussion of powerful stakeholder groups and how their ideologies impact the strategic management of their organisations.

摘要

本文将政治思想文献与体育所有权框架结合起来，研究特许经营者的政治思想与组织水平的绩效结果之间的联系。与43个唯一所有者相关的300个PSF年度观测值的样本用于调查建议的关系。结果不支持所有者的政治倾向影响PSF管理方式的许多方面的想法。但是，与假设相反，事实表明，自由所有者与较高的出席成本相关联，在所有者，球队，城市，联赛和国家级别控制了一系列其他因素。