 Perception, reality, and the adoption of business analytics: Evidence from North American professional sport organizationsMichael Troilo, Adrien Bouchet, Timothy L. Urban and William A. Sutton Omega, 2016, vol. 59, issue PA, 72-83 Abstract: It is well known that professional sports teams have made extensive use of analytics to improve their on-field performance. However, it is not as apparent that these same organizations use analytics to improve performance on the “business” side. The North American professional sports industry is unique in that the teams operate as legal monopolies/duopolies, with very few cities having more than one major-league team in a particular sport. Thus, our intent is to explore the adoption and assessment of business analytics in professional sports organizations. An empirical analysis is conducted concerning management’s perception of the effects of business analytics as well as the actual change in financial performance since the adoption of analytics by the organizations. Keywords: Analytics; OR in sports; Empirical analysis; Perception vs. reality (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jomega:v:59:y:2016:i:pa:p:72-83 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2015.05.011 Access Statistics for this article Omega is currently edited by B. Lev More articles in Omega from Elsevier |
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