TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring efficiency and productivity in professional football teams
T2 - Evidence from the English Premier League
AU - Guzmán, Isidoro
AU - Morrow, Stephen
N1 - Funding Information:
The research was supported by the Investigation Program of the Technical University of Cartagena (Spain) and by the Department of Sports Studies at the University of Stirling (Scotland, UK).
PY - 2007/11
Y1 - 2007/11
N2 - Professional football clubs are unusual businesses, their performance judged on and off the field of play. This study is concerned with measuring the efficiency of clubs in the English Premier League. Information from clubs' financial statements is used as a measure of corporate performance. To measure changes in efficiency and productivity the Malmquist non-parametric technique has been used. This is derived from the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) linear programming approach, with Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) being used to ensure the cohesion of the input-output variables. The study concludes that while clubs operate close to efficient levels for the assessed models, there is limited technological advance in their performance in terms of the displacement of the technological frontier.
AB - Professional football clubs are unusual businesses, their performance judged on and off the field of play. This study is concerned with measuring the efficiency of clubs in the English Premier League. Information from clubs' financial statements is used as a measure of corporate performance. To measure changes in efficiency and productivity the Malmquist non-parametric technique has been used. This is derived from the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) linear programming approach, with Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) being used to ensure the cohesion of the input-output variables. The study concludes that while clubs operate close to efficient levels for the assessed models, there is limited technological advance in their performance in terms of the displacement of the technological frontier.
KW - Canonical correlation analysis
KW - Data envelopment analysis
KW - Economics
KW - Efficiency
KW - Football
KW - Malmquist productivity index
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U2 - 10.1007/s10100-007-0034-y
DO - 10.1007/s10100-007-0034-y
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:44849090315
SN - 1435-246X
VL - 15
SP - 309
EP - 328
JO - Central European Journal of Operations Research
JF - Central European Journal of Operations Research
IS - 4
ER -