TY - JOUR
T1 - Is the performance improvement effect of social capital contingent on life cycle stages of professional athletes? Evidence from motorboat racing in Japan
AU - Fukugawa, Nobuya
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine whether bonding and bridging social capital of professional athletes affect their performance and whether the impacts vary according to their life cycle stages. Design/methodology/approach - This study establishes an unbalanced panel of motorboat racers in Japan, and estimates a fixed-effects negative binomial regression model to analyze determining factors in the number of wins in a final, focusing on not only physical factors but also social capital. Findings - Bridging social capital, measured by the number of racers in the same regional division, has no impact on performance. Bonding social capital, measured by the number of racers who graduated the training institute in the same period, has positive impacts on performance. This positive effect is more salient among racers who are less experienced, and thus need to extract benefits from social capital to augment limited internal resources. Originality/value - This study adds statistical evidence to previous literature on the contingency theory that different types of social capital have different impacts on performance under different environments.
AB - Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine whether bonding and bridging social capital of professional athletes affect their performance and whether the impacts vary according to their life cycle stages. Design/methodology/approach - This study establishes an unbalanced panel of motorboat racers in Japan, and estimates a fixed-effects negative binomial regression model to analyze determining factors in the number of wins in a final, focusing on not only physical factors but also social capital. Findings - Bridging social capital, measured by the number of racers in the same regional division, has no impact on performance. Bonding social capital, measured by the number of racers who graduated the training institute in the same period, has positive impacts on performance. This positive effect is more salient among racers who are less experienced, and thus need to extract benefits from social capital to augment limited internal resources. Originality/value - This study adds statistical evidence to previous literature on the contingency theory that different types of social capital have different impacts on performance under different environments.
KW - Japan
KW - Panel data
KW - Performance analysis
KW - Professional athletes
KW - Social capital
KW - Social networks
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U2 - 10.1108/IJSE-12-2015-0325
DO - 10.1108/IJSE-12-2015-0325
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85033445603
VL - 44
SP - 2466
EP - 2485
JO - International Journal of Social Economics
JF - International Journal of Social Economics
SN - 0306-8293
IS - 12
ER -