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Organizational status identities and the mobility of professional
football players in EuropeThijs Velema
National Taiwan University, Department of Sociology Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica
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Number of clubs in career
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 >150%
2%
4%
6%
8%
10%
12%
14%
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Transfer fees
Free transfer
Between 1 and 5 million
Between 5 and 10 millionMore than 10 million
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Football as a precarious profession
•Players move very often•Majority for free, some for a lot of money•Mostly within countries, some across borders•How are organizations involved?
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Organizational goals and labor mobility
Reputation
Status
Labor mobility
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Situatedness and status/reputation
High
Middle
Low
A Status as heuristic category• High status teams - reinforce status• Low status teams – survival
B
Two problems• High status care for their reputation• Low status players moving up
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Player importance and status/reputation
Fringe players Key players
High status teams: sell them for status
High status teams: keep them for reputation
Low status teams: sell them for status
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Who moves?
•Players in high status teams•Fringe players•Team status * player importance•Fringe players in high status teams•Key players in low status teams
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EH analysis of player transfers
Variable Direction Lateral Downward InternationalTeam status
.9038*** .8481*** .3629***
Player importance
-.0354* -.5907*** -.3556***
Team status * player importance
-.2173*** -.2026*** -.2430***
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Organizations and labor mobility
•Labor mobility and organizational goals•Status identity as heuristic category•Employee importance and fields within fields
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Further questions
•Other actors•Conflicts in organizations•Consequences for football•Other industries
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Attribution for pictures
Edgar Davids (Juventus F.C., no.26) clashing with Gennaro Gattuso (A.C. Milan), by soccer illustrated
Argentina-Holanda_1978, by Archivo ClarinBundesarchiv Bild 183-N0716-0314, Fussball-WM, BRD – Niederlandse 2-1,
by Rainer MittelstadtHowitis, as appeared on http://www.shof.msrcsites.co.uk