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Article Dans Une Revue Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal Année : 2023

Farmers league: squad structure and resource dependency The case of French Ligue1

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Purpose This research aimed to measure the influence of resource dependency (trading and/or shareholder's dependencies) squad age structure by building archetypes to identify strategic dominant schemes. Design/methodology/approach Based on the Ligue 1 football clubs from the 2009/2010 season to the 2018/2019 data, the authors use the k-means classification to build archetypes of resource dependency and squad structure variables. The influence of resource dependency on squad structure is then analysed through a table of contingency. Findings Firstly, the authors identify archetypes of resource dependency with some clubs that are dependent on the transfer market and others that do not count on sales to balance their account. Secondly, they provide different archetypes of squad structure choices. The contingency between those archetypes allows to identify three main strategic schemes (avoidance, shaping and adaptation). Originality/value The research tests an original relationship between resource dependency of clubs and their human resource strategy to respond to it. This paper can help to provide detailed profiles for big clubs looking for affiliate clubs to know which clubs have efficient academy or player development capacities.
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hal-04323874 , version 1 (05-12-2023)

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Antoine Feuillet, Loris Terrettaz, Mickaël Terrien. Farmers league: squad structure and resource dependency The case of French Ligue1. Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal, 2023, ⟨10.1108/SBM-04-2023-0037⟩. ⟨hal-04323874⟩
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