TY - THES U1 - Dissertation / Habilitation A1 - Schregel, Johannes Philipp T1 - Can strategic management of professional football clubs lead to a sustainable advantage? : prediction of success and failure of German professional football clubs N2 - The dissertation comprises four manuscripts that aim to enhance the knowledge on strategic man-agement of professional football clubs within Germany, especially with regard to the prediction of success. Apart from manuscript A which is a review of extant literature of football manage-ment variables leading to success, and manuscript B, which is a qualitative investigation on sus-tainable success factors affecting professional football clubs, the remaining manuscripts C and D comprise two empirical studies; they can be further partitioned in manuscript C, investigating the prediction of failure with the worst-case scenario of bankruptcy and manuscript D, covering the prediction of failure and success in a proof of concept based on machine learning. KW - Strategic sports management KW - Risk management KW - Predictive analytics KW - Professional football club management KW - Machine learning Y2 - 2021 U6 - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-767290 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-767290 N1 - included: Identifying football management variables that lead to sustainable success in professional European football clubs - a literature review. Measuring robustness: sustainable success factors affecting professional football clubs. Bankruptcy prediction in German professional football-consideration of potential COVID-19 effects. The FoMa Q-Score as an intelligent prediction model for the Bundesliga based on machine learning - a proof of concept. 260-1-__-$a Leipzig SP - XV, 118 S1 - XV, 118 CY - Leipzig ER -