Recovering performance in the short term after coach succession in Spanish basketball organisations Gómez Haro, Samuel Salmerón Gómez, Román Coach succession Short term Performance Additional personnel changes Spanish basketball This work has been partially funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education (project ECO2013-47009-P) and the Regional Government of Andalusia (project P11-SEJ-7988). The authors want to thank the members of the research group, “Innovation, Sustainability and Business Development” (SEJ-481). Research papers on succession processes in sports organisations have usually shown contradictory results. Several factors can explain the different effects on performance after changes, so the purpose of this paper is to obtain a better understanding of coach changes and their impacts on short-term performance. For this purpose, we use ordinary least squares (with Stata) to analyse panel data from a longitudinal sample of 15 years (from the 1997–1998 season to the 2011–2012 season) of Spanish professional basketball organisations, examining all changes in head coaches that occurred during the teams’ competitive seasons using the variables of coach experience or human capital changes within the organisation after the change of coach to determine the repercussions of these changes on performance. The results, with p < .05, support two hypotheses: H2, the possibility of short-term improved performance in organisations after a coach change; and H3, if a coach change is accompanied by more profound changes in human capital (players) the result is worse performance. These results are not contradictory because they indicate that it is possible to recover performance in the short term, but if managers make too many changes at the same time, the team cannot coordinate itself to recover its performance. For organisations, this observation is important because organisations can change key leaders when performance is low but must consider that a large number of simultaneous changes are overly risky because this increases instability and disruption. 2024-01-09T12:46:57Z 2024-01-09T12:46:57Z 2016 journal article Published version: Samuel Gómez-Haro & Román Salmerón-Gómez (2016). Recovering performance in the short term after coach succession in Spanish basketball organisations. Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice 9:1, 24-37. [DOI: 10.1080/17521882.2015.1119169] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/86665 10.1080/17521882.2015.1119169 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional