A cricket ground or a football stadium? The business of ground sharing at the Adelaide Oval before 1973

Lionel Frost, Margaret Lightbody, Amanda Carter and Abdel K. Halabi

Business History, 2016, vol. 58, issue 8, 1164-1182

Abstract: Before 1973, cricket and Australian Football used the Adelaide Oval for major games during their respective seasons. Football’s popularity as a spectator sport prompted its organising body to seek to build an improved stadium, but cricket authorities controlled the asset and acted to maintain its specialised character as a cricket ground. A case study of how the gains from a shared capital good are negotiated when asset controllers and users have different objectives is provided. A series of counterfactual scenarios based on football remaining at the Oval is constructed from archival sources and their outcomes projected based on data in financial reports.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2016.1167188

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