Do Managers Matter : Evidence from E-sports
| dc.contributor.author | Coates, Dennis | |
| dc.contributor.author | Parshakov, Petr | |
| dc.contributor.author | Paklina, Sofia | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-11-21T17:11:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-11-21T17:11:03Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-08-12 | |
| dc.description.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. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This study comprises research findings from the «Intangible-driven dynamics in economics and finance» carried out within International Laboratory of Intangible-driven Economy (ID Lab) of the National Research University Higher School of Economics’ Basic Research Program. | en |
| dc.description.uri | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/coep.12442 | en |
| dc.format.extent | 18 pages | en |
| dc.genre | journal articles postprints | en |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m20phw-x8s6 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | 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 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12442 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/16483 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Western Economic Association International | en |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Economics Department Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Faculty Collection | |
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| dc.rights | 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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| dc.subject | human resources | en |
| dc.subject | managers | en |
| dc.subject | company efficiency | en |
| dc.subject | self-managed teams | en |
| dc.subject | endogenous switching regression model | en |
| dc.title | Do Managers Matter : Evidence from E-sports | en |
| dc.type | Text | en |