College Football Recruiting: The Role of Relational Rivalry in Factor-Market Competition

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Group & Organization Management Pub Date : 2024-08-19 DOI:10.1177/10596011241273377

Scott M. Soltis, Chris Sterling, Walter J. Ferrier, Stephen Borgatti

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Abstract

Owning to its focus on the competitive intensity between firms across both product and resource markets, the theory of factor-market competition (FMC) sparked interest among strategy scholars who study the drivers, processes, and outcomes related to inter-firm competition. Yet, despite some initial theoretical advancement, little progress has been made in this potentially important research stream. In this study, we empirically explore elements of relational rivalry between firms (explicit rivalry, capability to compete, and status similarity) drive the intensity of FMC. Using the market for high school recruits among National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) football teams as our research setting, we show that these psycho-social aspects of relational rivalry (as well as some product-market based structural aspects) indeed drive FMC. Further analysis reveals that the nature of these relationships is contingent on another underexplored element of FMC: factor quality. As such, our study is an early test of the theory of FMC, a refinement of the theory to account for resource properties, and an extension beyond structural aspects into the role of relational rivalry on the intensity of FMC.

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大学橄榄球招募：关系竞争在要素市场竞争中的作用

要素市场竞争理论（FMC）关注企业在产品市场和资源市场上的竞争强度，因此引发了研究企业间竞争的驱动因素、过程和结果的战略学者们的兴趣。然而，尽管在理论上取得了一些初步进展，但在这一潜在的重要研究领域进展甚微。在本研究中，我们通过实证研究探讨了企业间关系竞争（明确竞争、竞争能力和地位相似性）驱动 FMC 强度的要素。我们以全美大学生体育协会（NCAA）橄榄球队的高中新兵市场为研究背景，表明这些关系竞争的社会心理因素（以及一些基于产品市场的结构因素）确实推动了 FMC。进一步的分析表明，这些关系的性质取决于 FMC 中另一个未被充分探索的因素：因素质量。因此，我们的研究是对快速流动理论的早期检验，是对该理论的完善，以解释资源属性，并将其从结构方面扩展到关系竞争对快速流动强度的作用。

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