Major League Baseball owners possess different types of functional background experience. I examine the financial and on-field effects of the functional and geographic background of owners in the MLB from 2001-2014. A functional background in entrepreneurship appeared to have an insignificant effect on a team’s payroll expense and on-field performance. However, teams owned by corporations appeared to have significantly lower payrolls than all other teams, a relationship that supports the theory that corporations are not concerned with their team’s on-field performance. The operating income of teams, with owners, who inherited the franchise from a family member or purchased the team using an inherited trust, was significantly higher than other teams. However, the number of team wins was negatively affected by owners, who inherited ownership. A personal tie between the owner and the team’s location was insignificant as a determinant of team payroll expense and team wins.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:CLAREMONT/oai:scholarship.claremont.edu:cmc_theses-2299 |
| Date | 01 January 2016 |
| Creators | Howell, Matthew E |
| Publisher | Scholarship @ Claremont |
| Source Sets | Claremont Colleges |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | CMC Senior Theses |
| Rights | © 2015 Matthew E Howell, default |
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