LEADER 05520nam 22006495 450 001 9910735391803321 005 20200919192011.0 010 $a1-4614-9485-0 024 7 $a10.1007/978-1-4614-9485-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000077536 035 $a(EBL)1592719 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001086592 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11699522 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001086592 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11063328 035 $a(PQKB)10956551 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-4614-9485-0 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1592719 035 $a(PPN)176101438 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000077536 100 $a20131211d2013 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 13$aAn Absence of Competition $eThe Sustained Competitive Advantage of the Monopoly Sports Leagues /$fby Neil Longley 205 $a1st ed. 2013. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cSpringer New York :$cImprint: Springer,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (129 p.) 225 1 $aSports Economics, Management and Policy,$x2191-298X ;$v5 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4614-9484-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographies and index. 327 $a1 Introduction -- 2 Some Conceptual Foundations: A Primer on the Economic Structure of Professional Sport -- 3 The USFL as a Case Study -- 4 A Brief History of Post-World War II Rival Leagues -- 5 Explaining Competitiveness: Alternate Theoretical Frameworks -- 6 Property-Based Resources: Franchise Locations, Stadiums, and Players -- 7 Knowledge-Based Resources -- Managerial Competencies -- 8 The Way Ahead: The Prospects for the Re-Emergence of Rival Leagues -- Index. 330 $aThis book takes a multi-disciplinary approach to analyzing the nature of ?competition? and ?competitive advantage? within the U.S. pro sport industry. By many measures, the four major pro sports leagues in the U.S.?the National Football League (NFL), National Basketball Association (NBA), National Hockey League (NHL), and Major League Baseball (MLB)?are now some of the most successful business entities in the country. Not coincidental to this success is the fact that all four of these leagues currently operate as monopolies. While all have faced rival leagues at some point or another in their existence, all were able to successfully dispense with these rivals. Because of the inability of any rival leagues to survive as a long-term force, it has been monopoly, and not competition, that has been the prevailing market structure in the industry. In fact, in recent decades, the monopoly position of the Big Four appears increasingly impenetrable?none have faced a credible threat from a rival league since the demise of the United States Football League (USFL) in the mid-1980s.   Within this context, the book seeks to explore the nature of the competitive advantage that these leagues apparently possess. The book takes an evolutionary approach, in that it argues that the monopoly position of each of the four leagues today cannot be explained in an insular, static, manner, but is the culmination of many dynamic processes through many decades. Today?s monopoly market structures are what could be termed path-dependent?they did not simply ?happen,? but are instead a complex function of everything that has occurred up to this point. A key contribution of the book is that it analyzes these issues from three alternate theoretical perspectives?the traditional economics approach, the public choice approach, and the strategic management approach. It argues that no single conceptual approach can, in itself, adequately explain the full richness of the issue, and that these various approaches should be viewed as complements, rather than as being mutually exclusive. The multi-disciplinary nature of the issue should make the book of interest to scholars in a number of fields, including strategic management, sport management, and economics. It can serve as an effective teaching tool in both graduate and upper-level undergraduate courses for students in these fields, and is particularly useful for faculties seeking to emphasize to their students the importance of a multi-disciplinary, integrative, approach when analyzing business and management issues. The book may also be of interest to leaders within the sport industry itself, and will help to provide insight and perspective as leagues seek to enhance their competitive advantage in the marketplace. 410 0$aSports Economics, Management and Policy,$x2191-298X ;$v5 606 $aEconomics 606 $aManagement science 606 $aManagement 606 $aIndustrial management 606 $aEconomics, general$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W00000 606 $aManagement$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/515000 606 $aMedia Management$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/513020 615 0$aEconomics. 615 0$aManagement science. 615 0$aManagement. 615 0$aIndustrial management. 615 14$aEconomics, general. 615 24$aManagement. 615 24$aMedia Management. 676 $a796.0694 700 $aLongley$b Neil$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01376515 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910735391803321 996 $aAn Absence of Competition$93412387 997 $aUNINA