Player Salaries, Organizational Efficiency, and Competitiveness in Major League Baseball

Journal of Sports Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 266-294

  Lewis, Herbert F ^a   Sexton, Thomas R ^a   Lock, Kathleen A ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

competitiveness; data envelopment analysis; efficiency; Major League Baseball

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990348593     PISSN: 15270025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1527002506286776     Document Type: Article

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