Do Managers Matter : Evidence from E-sports
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2019-08-12
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Coates, Dennis; Parshakov, Petr; Paklina, Sofia; Do Managers Matter : Evidence from E-sports; Contemporary Economic Policy 38,1 (2019); https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/coep.12442
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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: “Coates, Dennis; Parshakov, Petr; Paklina, Sofia; Do Managers Matter: Evidence from E-sports; Contemporary Economic Policy 38, 1 (2019); https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/coep.12442 ”, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12442. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: “Coates, Dennis; Parshakov, Petr; Paklina, Sofia; Do Managers Matter: Evidence from E-sports; Contemporary Economic Policy 38, 1 (2019); https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/coep.12442 ”, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12442. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
Access to this item will begin on 2021-08-12
Abstract
Growing importance of human resources places the role of managers at the core of company efficiency. However, there are studies that demonstrate the efficiency of teams without a manager, so-called self-managed teams, is higher comparing with managed teams. Thus, despite the focus on managerial efficiency in the economic literature, the issue of whether a team needs a manager is far from settled. In this paper, we use a quasi-experimental setting from eSports (competitive video gaming) to understand whether the hiring a manager is of benefit to team performance. The empirical part of the study is based an endogenous switching regression model. This method allows investigating what performance of self-managed team would be if it will have a manager and vice versa. The dataset includes the information of prize money and features of top e-Sports teams in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (e-Sports discipline) from 2013 to 2017. The main finding of this study is that managed teams perform better than self-managed ones but this is not due to the manager.