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Coaching for Survival: The Hazards of Head Coach Careers in the German “Bundesliga”
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This article analyzes how long head coaches survive in the clubs of the first German football league (“Bundesliga”), where the dismissal of a presumably weak coach is a generally adopted procedure in case of a poor sporting performance of the team. We use duration models for repeated events to accommodate the correlation within individuals.
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Classification
Leisure Research
Occupational Research, Occupational Sociology
Document language
English
Publication Year
2009
Page/Pages
p. 3303-3311
Journal
Applied Economics, 41 (2009) 25
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840701721455
ISSN
1466-4283
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)