Life cycles or longer tenures? A performance and employment duration model for Spanish basketball coaches
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Coach succession Performance Life cycles Longer tenures Spanish basketball
Date
2015-01Referencia bibliográfica
Published version: Gómez-Haro, S. & Salmerón-Gómez, R. (2015) Life cycles or longer tenures? A performance and employment duration model for Spanish basketball coaches, Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 8:1, 36-52. [https://doi.org/10.1080/17521882.2014.993672]
Sponsorship
Spanish Ministry of Education ECO2010-20483; Regional Government of Andalusia P11-SEJ-7988Abstract
This study analyses the effect of basketball coaches on performance and the question of life cycles on their
tenures. From theoretical perspectives like coach-performance relationship, succession theories, life cycle
theory,and based on a longitudinal analysis from 1997 to 2012 of a professional Spanish basketball league, we
show that the objective established at the season’s start and coach quality positively influence team
performance, that a mid-season coaching change negatively influences performance, and the existence of longer
tenures coaches that improve team performance. The work is especially interested for sport managers, sport
coaches in their decisions-taking, but it is useful to general management to understand the consequences of the
tenures or dismissals of their key managers on results.