Teaching

RISM encourages and supervises student research on topics of interdisciplinary interest between Sports and Management. Such master & bachelor theses have the primary objective to introduce students to scientific analysis and methods.

Access to student research can be requested via e-mail.

Student Research

Current Research Topics for Bachelor's and Master's Theses

Bachelor
Topic	Supervisor	Examiner
Talent Mobility: Quantifying the cost of talent migration in football Students review rules and regulations governing players representing national teams. They use data from Transfermarkt.de to assess talent mobility across Europe	Müllner	Müllner
Ownership in Football: Mapping ownership in football and assessing the effects of ownership (changes) on sporting and financial success Students collect data on ownership models, ownership changes, and multi-club ownership from UEFA Football Landscape Reports. They merge this data with information from Transfermarkt.de to analyze how different ownership structures affect sporting and/or financial performance.	Müllner	Müllner
Gender distance and the effect of cross-gender coaching in Football Students collect data on coaches in women's football and compare the sporting performance of teams coached by male versus female coaches.	Müllner	Müllner

Master
Topic	Co- Supervisor	Examiner
Open Topic: How Sports can learn from Management Research: Applying Management Knowledge and Research to the context of Sports Students can submit their own ideas for applying management concepts to sports. (e.g., applying organizational theories in clubs and associations; creating frameworks for ESG in clubs; social media marketing in clubs; club internationalization; stakeholder engagement strategies in clubs etc.). The Research Initiative RISM can provide some data.	Müllner & Puck	Müllner & Puck
Open Topic: How Management Research can learn from Sports: Using the context of Sports to study interesting managerial questions Students can submit their own ideastfor studying interesting managerial questions in the empirical context of sports, using sports-related data (e.g. player contracts & performance, crowd & performance, diversity & performance, the psychology of penalty shootouts, etc.). The Research Initiative RISM can provide some data.	Müllner & Puck	Müllner & Puck
Talent Mobility: Quantifying the cost of talent migration in football Students reviewrules and regulations on players playing for national teams. They use Transfermarkt.de data to assess talent mobility in Europe. Students try to asses magnitude of migration, direction of migration and possible consequences for associations.Students collect data and conduct an empirical analysis of ownership effects. Students are provided with preliminary datasets.	Müllner	Müllner
Ownership in Football: Mapping ownership in football and assessing the effects of ownership (changes) on sporting and financial success Students collect data on ownership models, ownership changes and multi-club ownership from UEFA Football Landscape Reports. They merge this data with data from transfermarkt.de and assess differences in ownership structures and their effect on sporting and/or financial success. Students conduct an empirical analysis and are provided with preliminary datasets.	Müllner	Müllner
Gender distance and the effect of cross-gender coaching in football Students collect data on coaches in women's football and develop an empirical model to compare sporting performance of male and female coaches.	Müllner	Müllner

Note that sports has become a high-demand topic, and we only accept excellent proposals from highly motivated students.

List of Student Research

How did the Corona crisis affect the level of Internationalization in Professional Soccer

MUELLNER J., Lindenhofer Julian

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Teaching

Student Research

Current Research Topics for Bachelor's and Master's Theses

Bachelor

Topic

Supervisor

Examiner

Talent Mobility: Quantifying the cost of talent migration in football

Ownership in Football: Mapping ownership in football and assessing the effects of ownership (changes) on sporting and financial success

Gender distance and the effect of cross-gender coaching in Football

Master

Topic

Co- Supervisor

Examiner

Open Topic: How Sports can learn from Management Research: Applying Management Knowledge and Research to the context of Sports

Open Topic: How Management Research can learn from Sports: Using the context of Sports to study interesting managerial questions

Talent Mobility: Quantifying the cost of talent migration in football

Ownership in Football: Mapping ownership in football and assessing the effects of ownership (changes) on sporting and financial success

Gender distance and the effect of cross-gender coaching in football

List of Student Research

How did the Corona crisis affect the level of Internationalization in Professional Soccer

Der Einfluss der Coronapandemie auf den Heimvorteil im Fußball

Organizational crisis response to global pandemics in companies - a survey of the literature and catalogue of different measures

Auswirkung der Finanzierungsmodelle auf den sportlichen Erfolg von Fußballclubs

Diversität und Team Performance am Beispiel des europäischen Spitzenfußballs

Literaturüberblick über die Literatur zu Mannschaftsvielfalt & Leistung mit besonderem Schwerpunkt auf Vielfalt & Leistung in Sportmannschaften

Literaturüberblick über die Literatur zu Mannschaftsvielfalt & Leistung mit besonderem Schwerpunkt auf Vielfalt & Leistung in Sportmannschaften

Die Auswirkungen eines neuen Stadions auf die Leistung von professionellen Fußallvereinen

Korrelation zwischen der Teilnahme an der UEFA Champions League und der finanziellen Leistung von Fußballvereinen

The impact of a team's national diversity on its market value: an economic perspective of internationalization processes in professional European association football

Die Auswirkungen von Trainerwechseln auf die Leistung: empirische Belege aus dem europäischen Fußball

Datenanalyse im Fußball

Finanzmanagement im österreichischen Fußball

Internationalisierung der National Football League in Europa

Internationalisierung im professionellen Sportgeschäft - Die Internationalisierungsstrategie von Manchester United verglichen mit traditionellen Modellen

Systematisierung von internationalen Fußballaktivitäten - Der Fall Red Bull

Internationalisierung im professionellen Fußball: Eine fallbasierte Analyse des deutschen Fußballklubs Borussia Dortmund

Gehaltsobergrenzen als Machtgleichgewicht - Analyse der Mechanismen für Wettbewerbsgleichgewicht im Profisport

Internationalisierung in professionellem Sport

Conglomerate im Sport

Leicester City Fußballklub's nachhaltiger Wettbewerbsvorteil über das letzte Jahrzehnt

Fußballklub gegen Punk: Internationalisierungsstrategie Empfehlungen für die größten Fußballvereine Hamburgs Hamburger SV und FC St. Pauli

Der Internationalisierungsfortschritt von Major League Soccer: Eine vergleichende Strategieanalyse mit der National Football League

Der Bekanntheitsgrad von professionellen Fußballspielern auf sozialen Medien und dessen Auswirkung auf ihren Marktwert