Lucía Isabel García-Cebrián

• Doctor of Business Administration
• University of Zaragoza

This work is didactic in purpose and it aims to provide a mechanism to help apply Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) as an effective tool to measure efficiency. Using works by Golany and Roll (1989), Norman and Stoker (1991), Triantis (2004) and Cook, Tone and Zhu (2014) as a basis, we propose a five-stage process to that end, which serves as a guide...

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div class="page" title="Page 1"> Este artículo busca analizar la relación entre Estado y estadística y comprender los cambios en el uso de los datos estadísticos, tanto por la autoridad constituida como por la sociedad en general, a lo largo de la historia. Si inicialmente la estadística se utilizaba como instrumento de control de los gobiernos so...

Suggested citation: Manuel Espitia-Escuer and Lucía Isabel García-Cebrián (2021), "Assessment of the Efficiency of Spanish Football Teams Through Profiling", Data Envelopment Analysis Journal: Vol. 5: No. 2, pp 487-534. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/103.00000029

The design and configuration of sports teams is made according to the goals set by the institution to which they belong. This paper analyzes the team configuration and the effectiveness in the pursuit of sporting successes base don the Gollop and Monahan diversification index.In the model, the components of the index are incorporated as explanatory...

The aim of this paper is to assess the efficiency of football. Our contributions to the literature are the use of the resource‐based theory and the strategy‐structure‐performance perspective as the study's framework, efficiency has been considered as the result of the qualities of the productive resources in football teams and efficiency is calcula...

The aim of this paper is to analyze if the First Division Spanish League and UEFA Champions League regulations generate differences in the relationship between levels of efficiency and sports results. In order to calculate efficiency the modified version of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) proposed by Collier, Johnson and Ruggiero (2011) has been us...

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Purpose The aim of this paper is to analyze efficiency and its evolution in teams that played in the UEFA Champions League (UCL) during nine seasons. The aim is to present a research procedure for determining the most accurate DEA methodology to estimate and compare the efficiency. Design/methodology/approach First, we analyzed the existence of...

The fans are the biggest part of the success of sports contests. The competitive equilibrium reflects uncertainty about the outcomes of professional sporting, which attracts the fans’ interest. Thus, the competitive balance (CB) is one of the main issues in sports economics. The objective of this paper is to analyse and compare the CB of male (Liga...

Este artículo tiene por objetivo analizar la importancia de las concentraciones empresariales, específicamente los parques científicos y tecnológicos, como mecanismo que contribuye al tejido empresarial de un determinado país. Para llevarlo a cabo, primero se describen las economías de aglomeración y las razones que conllevan a que las empresas se...

This article aims to analyze the importance of business concentrations, specifically science and technology parks, as a mechanism that contributes to the fabric business of a given country. To carry it out, the agglomeration economies are first described and the reasons that lead companies to locate themselves close to others. Followed by, the data...

The UEFA Champions League (UCL) is the most important competition at club level. Nevertheless, the sports technical efficiency of this competition has been scarcely analysed. The present paper seeks to fill this gap by analysing from a longitudinal and data panel perspective all the teams that played in the UCL during nine seasons (2004/05 to 2012/...

This article aims to evaluate the sports performance of teams that have participated in the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Champions League (UCL) during the last 10 seasons (2004-2005 to 2013-2014). Technical efficiency is estimated using well-known data envelopment analysis (DEA) approaches and a bootstrapped DEA model. To solve th...

Football teams, when considered as economic organisations, are expected to achieve their objectives without consuming excess resources. Put another way, they must produce their products and services efficiently. In this study, we calculate efficiency on the playing field for teams in the UEFA Champions League between 2003 and 2012. We do this not o...

This paper commits to calculate and analyze productivy levels and its components for teams that participated in the UEFA Champions League between 2003 and 2012. It will pursue three objectives: 1) evaluate resources usage, 2) analyze the productivity levels of the football teams and the sports results, and 3) see the influence of participation expe...

Este artículo pretende calcular y analizar los niveles de productividad y de sus componentes para los equipos que participaron en la Liga de Campeones de la UEFA entre 2003 y 2012. Se persiguen tres objetivos: 1) evaluar la utilización de los recursos, 2) analizar los niveles de productividad de los equipos de fútbol y los resultados deportivos y 3...

For entrepreneurs, decision making is present right from the start. The decision-making process in business has received extensive academic attention in recent decades. One of the first-order strategic decisions for an entrepreneur is where to locate the new business. The emergence of the multi-criteria decision analysis paradigm allowed several cr...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to evaluate the performance of Spanish first-division basketball teams, in terms of efficiency, by defining previously a productive function and obtaining also their potential output. Second, to examine the total factor productivity evolution having information from several years, which allows...

Business location or the location of an economic activity has been analyzed extensively. A body of research focuses on the geographic location, an external approach closely related to geographic economics, as a key factor in determining a business location. Another body of research focuses on the business characteristics, an internal approach. This...

In the case of football it could be argued that the purpose of clubs is to win the competitions in which they participate. However, the assessment of football clubs from the efficiency would be relevant in judging whether the results have been obtained without waste. The chosen sample is football teams who played in the Champions League from 2003 t...

RESUMEN Para que las empresas puedan desarrollar favorablemente sus actividades manufactureras, logísticas o de cualquier otra índole, es necesario que el espacio físico en el que se van a desarrollar disponga, de la infraestructura básica que las organizaciones demandan y que afectan no sólo al suelo industrial sino a las instalaciones que los p...

Palabras clave: Localización empresarial, Electre, Proceso Analítico Jerárquico, Teoría de la Utilidad Multiatributo. Las últimas décadas han supuesto, para el entorno económico en el que operan las empresas, importantes cambios y transformaciones que han provocado variaciones sustanciales en su estructura productiva. Estos cambios se producen a un...

The location decision is one of the most important strategic decisions that have to take the firms, with direct influence on their competitiveness. For this reason, many methodologies have been developed to help in the decision making. In this paper, we make an empirical application of a multi-criterion methodology of aid to the decision; specifica...

La decisión de la localización es una de las opciones estratégicas más im- portantes que tienen que tomar las empresas, con influencia directa so- bre su competitividad. Por este motivo, se han desarrollado numerosas metodologías que ayudan en la toma de estas decisiones. En este trabajo, se realiza una aplicación empírica de una metodología de ayu...

La decisión de la localización es una de las opciones estratégicas más importantes que tienen que tomar las empresas, con influencia directa sobre su competitividad. Por este motivo, se han desarrollado numerosas metodologías que ayudan en la toma de estas decisiones. En este trabajo, se realiza una aplicación empírica de una metodología de ayuda a...

This study examines the Total Factor Productivity evolution of Spanish First Division Soccer teams employing the values of the Malmquist Index. The football seasons from 1998 to 2004 are used as the time horizon. The breakdown of the two components of the Malmquist Index Values (efficiency change and technical change) enable one to understand the i...

The Non-governmental Development Organizations (NGDO) sector in Spain is one of the most dynamic areas of non-profit organizations. Spanish citizens are highly involved in these organizations as members, volunteers or by contributing money or products. In this article we use modified Data Envelopment Analysis to analyse the efficiency of fund-raisi...

Purpose The purpose of this research is twofold: to evaluate the performance of Spanish First‐Division soccer teams, comparing the sports results that they actually obtain with those that they should have obtained on the basis of their potential, and to propose a future course of action. Design/methodology/approach In order to assess the potential...

Eficiencia comparativa de los sistemas bancarios de los países de la Unión Europea

Problems faced by human groups according with Organization Theory can be summarized as the search for an equilibrium between the transmission of the information necessary in order for teams to raise their efficiency, and the increase in costs that this entails. The fact that one of the proposed solutions to this problem is the use of slack resource...

In the framework of the European Union, one of the economic sectors of most interest to politicians, academics and professionals has been the banking sector. The aim of this paper is to verify the existence of differences in the efficiency of the banking sectors and what variables determine these differences in European Union countries in the perio...

This paper aims to analyze efficiency of the subsidies granted by the Spanish authorities. The case study focuses on wind-generated electricity. We will study what type of subsidy is most efficient considering the economic and technical data of an existing wind power installation in Spain. A sensitivity analysis is made in order to provide judgment...

This paper aims to analyze efficiency of the subsidies granted by the Spanish authorities. The case study focuses on wind-generated electricity. We will study what type of subsidy is most efficient considering the economic and technical data of an existing wind power installation in Spain. A sensitivity analysis is made in order to provide judgment...

Los factores que influyen en la decisión sobre el proceso productivo presentados en Schroeder (1992) y en Domínguez Machuco y otros (1995) se pueden agrupar en dos grandes categorías: condiciones del mercado y disponibilidad de los recursos. Sin embargo, parece conveniente añadir los cuestiones legales, sociales y medioambientales como un tercer gr...

In order for production strategy to develop its role in the creative activity of value it is necessary to have the information that will facilitate decision making and to guide its performance. The aim of this study is to present the basic ideas of how a scorecard, adapted for use in production-operations should be. More specifically it will presen...

The existence of numerous utility-owned wind energy parks in Spain is accounted for by a special status categorization for wind-generated power which allows utilities to avoid selling electricity on the market but instead receive a payment incorporating a subsidy. This has served to offset what otherwise would be a forbidding set of economics milit...

The liberalization carried out in the Spanish Electric sector imply in the electricity distribution field, the existence of one single firm as manager of the grid, but the presence of sellers will provoke some degree of competition. The aim of this paper is to analyze if the value created by the electric utilities distributing in the Spanish market...

Throughout this research, efficiency levels of the European railway industry are analyzed using non-parametric methods. A sample of 21 companies is used, in the timeframe of 1984-1995. The aim of the paper is the analysis of the influence on these firms' efficiency of organizational change due to their adaptation to the environment in which they op...