Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Sports Entrepreneurship

Escamilla-Fajardo, Paloma; Núñez-Pomar, Juan; Moreno, Ferrán Calabuig; Gómez-Tafalla, Ana María

doi:10.3390/su12208493

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“…Resilience has positive business performance effects (Ignat and Constantin 2020 ; Setthachotsombut and Sua-iam 2020 ) and is a consequence primarily of financial strength and active efforts to manage recovery. Equally, a high level of entrepreneurial orientation (that is, a focus on innovativeness, proactivity, and risk-taking) is empirically suggested to help maintain organizational performance even in times of crisis (Escamilla-Fajardo et al 2020 ). Those elements can therefore be said to constitute preconditions of resilience.…”

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“… Opportunity Primary quantitative Romania 117 entrepreneurs Univariate analysis Freelancing, digital entrepreneurship, and globalization benefit from the crisis Ebersberger and Kuckertz ( 2021 ) Which type of innovator is the quickest to react to the COVID-19 crisis? Opportunity Secondary quantitative Global 136 innovations Network analysis; Poisson QML regression; specification curves Startups introduce crisis-induced innovations significantly faster than corporates and research institutions Escamilla-Fajardo et al ( 2020 ) How has the COVID-19 crisis changed sports entrepreneurship? Resilience Primary quantitative Spain 145 sports clubs Bivariate analysis, regressions Risk-taking and innovativeness increase with the crisis, proactiveness remains unchanged; all dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation help to explain service quality Fairlie ( 2020 ) What are the effects of COVID-19 on entrepreneurial activity?…”

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Creative reconstruction: a structured literature review of the early empirical research on the COVID-19 crisis and entrepreneurship

Kuckertz

Brändle

2021

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The COVID-19 crisis triggered by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and the infection control measures taken have extended beyond affecting health issues to impact economic activity worldwide. In this structured literature review, the focus is specifically on how the crisis has impacted entrepreneurial activity. The review focuses on the early empirical literature that primarily relied on data collected during the first wave of the pandemic. These empirical results are synthesized in a thematic literature review. The entrepreneurship research on the COVID-19 crisis is marked by three perspectives: the uncertainty perspective, the resilience perspective, and the opportunity perspective. To obtain a complete picture of the effects of the crisis on entrepreneurship, these three perspectives should be considered in combination. We provide implications for future research, policymakers, and entrepreneurs discussing how the interplay of the reviewed perspectives provides paths toward creative reconstruction, that is, the opportunity to move beyond pre-crisis levels of innovation and entrepreneurial action.

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Creative reconstruction: a structured literature review of the early empirical research on the COVID-19 crisis and entrepreneurship

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2021

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“…In this context of change and uncertainty, entrepreneurial and change management variables have been considered by sports organizations. Within this field, entrepreneurial orientation (EO) has been widely used as an important organizational attribute that includes “entrepreneurial top management style, organizational configuration, and new entry initiatives” [ 11 ] (p. 640). EO as a top management style focuses on the beliefs, objectives, decisions and the communication that top management demonstrates with the organization.…”

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“…Sports organizations, highly affected by restrictions and limitations, are still struggling today to meet the expectations and needs of their members and users, so that they are able to maintain their sustainability and guarantee their survival [ 11 ]. To this end, regardless of their nature, they have been forced to adapt and reinvent themselves in a way that is consistent with the current situation and with their main social objectives.…”

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Entrepreneurship and Resilience in Spanish Sports Clubs: A Cluster Analysis

Escamilla-Fajardo

Parra-Camacho

Núñez-Pomar

2021

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Entrepreneurial orientation can be an effective response by sports clubs to manage a recession, such as the COVID-19 crisis. Therefore, its study can be fundamental to understand different ways of managing a recession. This study analyzes the entrepreneurial orientation of Spanish non-profit sports clubs to identify different groups and their profiles. The sample is composed of 145 Spanish non-profit sports clubs. Different validated scales have been used to analyze entrepreneurial orientation, business model adaptation, service quality, and economic and social performance (performance in social impact and performance in social causes). Entrepreneurial orientation is the variable used to differentiate the groups. This is made up of three dimensions: innovation, risk-taking, and proactivity. According to the results obtained, there are three groups of sports clubs according to their entrepreneurial orientation: non-entrepreneurs (n = 11), moderate entrepreneurs (n = 85), and strong entrepreneurs (n= 45). There are substantial differences between the three groups according to the adaptation of the business model, the perceived impact of COVID-19, and the returns analyzed. Strong entrepreneurs have considerably higher levels of business model adaptation, economic performance, social performance, and perceived service quality than non-entrepreneurs. Theoretical and practical implications have been drawn that can bring new information to the sports and organizational sector. For example, the diagnosis of the different profiles according to the level of entrepreneurship can be useful to propose strategies to improve performance. In this way, it can help to evaluate the return on the investment made by sponsors or governments in the organization.

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Bio‐secure bubble during the COVID‐19 pandemic to host the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League: A retrospective observational study

Musleh

Asim

Abdurahiman

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Background and Aims To describe the COVID‐19 positivity rate among football players, team staff, and local organizing committee members participated in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League (West) tournament organized with the Bio‐secure bubble protocol in place. Methods A retrospective observational study was carried out to include a total of 2184 participants during the AFC‐West tournament in Qatar, which was a 3‐week event (September 14–October 3, 2020). This event was undertaken under the Bio‐secure bubble protocol, which was developed and implemented for sports events in Qatar during the pandemic. Within 72 h of departure and upon arrival in Qatar, all participants underwent reverse‐transcriptase polymerase chain reaction testing (RT‐PCR) to diagnose COVID‐19. The test was considered positive based on the cycle threshold (cT) value which was <30, whereas, reactive if cT value was ≥30 and <40, and negative (cT > 40). Results Of the 2184 participants (528 players, 388 team staff, and 1268 local staff), 916 international participants were tested for COVID‐19 PCR upon arrival at the Hamad International Airport, whereas the local staff ( n = 1268) were tested 2 days before entering the bubble. The mean age of the players was 27.5 ± 9.8. Fifteen teams participated and as many as 60 matches were played over 3 weeks. Most participants tested negative (95.3%) and 3.9% tests were inconclusive. During the entire tournament, the positivity rate was 2.7% among all participants. Of the total positive cases, 0.8% were positive before entering the bubble system. The remaining (1.9%) tested positive during the tournament phase (19 players, 16 team officials, and 8 organizing committee staff). Conclusion Bio‐secure bubble protocol operated in a controlled environment presents a minimal risk of COVID‐19 infection for hosting international football events. This framework could be benchmarked to resume professional football competitions under unprecedented pandemic situations.

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Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Sports Entrepreneurship

Cited by 33 publications

References 50 publications

Creative reconstruction: a structured literature review of the early empirical research on the COVID-19 crisis and entrepreneurship

Creative reconstruction: a structured literature review of the early empirical research on the COVID-19 crisis and entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship and Resilience in Spanish Sports Clubs: A Cluster Analysis

Bio‐secure bubble during the COVID‐19 pandemic to host the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League: A retrospective observational study

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