Careers, diversity, and performance in sports teams
Type
applied research project
Start Date
01 January 2009
End Date
31 December 2013
Status
ongoing
Keywords
diversity
careers
team performance
team sports
Description
This project extends our research on team diversity and team performance to the world of team sports. By conducting this project, we aim to obtain a better understanding of the consequences of team diversity and the antecedents of team performance across different team settings. We anticipate several advantages of working with datasets drawn from team sports such as greater access to detailed background information on team members and objectively observable performance metrics.
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Topic(s)
experiential diversity
professional careers
shared team experience
professional football teams
professional handball teams
Method(s)
empirical research
Range
Institute/School
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Institut/School
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Eprints ID
68448

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  • Publication
    Composing teams to optimize the benefits of international experience diversity
    ( 2012-08-05)
    Engeler, Martin
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    Greve, Peder
    ;
    Ruigrok, Winfried
    This paper contributes to a better understanding of the effects of experiential diversity in teams. Specifically, the link between diversity in team members' international experience backgrounds and team performance is examined from an information processing perspective. This paper addresses the conditions under which teams optimize the benefits of a greater pool of knowledge and perspectives at their disposal. A set of four hypotheses is developed and tested on a longitudinal dataset drawn from professional soccer teams in the German Bundesliga over a seven-year period. Findings show that a diverse international experience base is positively associated with team performance. This relationship is positively moderated by indicators of experiential team composition and managerial tenure. Specifically, performance gains of increasing international experience diversity are larger the more a team consists of members experienced in high quality settings, a team consists of members with narrow individual experience backgrounds, and a team is led by a longer tenured coach. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed together with future research directions.
    Type: conference paper
    URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/91206
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    The impact of experience and experiential diversity on the performance of national football teams
    ( 2009-08-10)
    Ruigrok, Winfried
    ;
    Greve, Peder
    ;
    Engeler, Martin
    This paper investigates the extent to which the performance of national football teams can be predicted by the experiential configurations of team members. We draw upon a database that contains performance data from the 64 matches at the FIFA World Cup 2006 and detailed biographical and career profiles of the 736 players who participated in the tournament. Our findings reveal little support for the notion that shared team experience is associated with higher performance of national teams, in contrast to the findings of previous research pertaining to club teams. In addition, our findings highlight the need to carefully manage experiential diversity in short-run performance settings in order to benefit from access to diverse tacit resources while at the same time avoiding that the integrative capacities of teams become overstretched.
    Type: conference paper
    URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/75699
  • Publication
    International experiential diversity and performance at project organizations: The case of national football teams
    (Emerald, 2011-10-13)
    Ruigrok, Winfried
    ;
    Greve, Peder
    ;
    Engeler, Martin
    This paper sheds further light on the link between diversity configurations in project teams and team performance. The paper draws upon detailed player background profiles and team performance data from the FIFA World Cup 2006, including profiles of the 736 players who participated in the tournament and performance data from the 64 matches played. Our findings highlight the need to carefully manage experiential diversity in project team settings in order to benefit from access to diverse tacit resources while at the same time avoiding that the integrative capacities of teams become overstretched. At the same time, we find little support for the notion that longevity of team membership is associated with higher performance in project teams. We derive implications for project team composition practices and discuss alternative interpretations of our findings
    Type: journal article
    Journal: Sport, Business and Management
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 3
    DOI: 10.1108/20426781111162675
    URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/93389
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