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Is the Grass Greener? Switching Costs and Geographic Proximity in the High Status Affiliations of Professional Baseball

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  • Nola Agha
  • Joe Cobbs

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Professional baseball operates a tiered system of talent development facilitated by alliances between Minor League Baseball (MiLB) clubs and higher status Major League Baseball (MLB) parent teams. This study applies management theory to advance the literature on MiLB demand modeling by proposing and testing a new set of demand determinants based on interorganizational alliance principles. Team executives at the AA level should be alert to the high cost of switching team alliances and of changing to a parent club in closer geographical proximity. At the AAA level, affiliation with a winning MLB club exerts a positive effect on AAA demand. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Nola Agha & Joe Cobbs, 2017. "Is the Grass Greener? Switching Costs and Geographic Proximity in the High Status Affiliations of Professional Baseball," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 38(2), pages 95-108, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:mgtdec:v:38:y:2017:i:2:p:95-108
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    1. Nola Agha & Thomas Rhoads, 2016. "The League Standing Effect: The Case of a Split Season in Minor League Baseball," Working Papers 2016-13, Towson University, Department of Economics, revised Jul 2016.

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