Business, Accounting and Economics Faculty Scholarship
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 2013
Publication Title
Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice
Publisher
M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
Abstract
Managers of museums, repertory theaters, sports leagues, and symphony orchestras invest resources in order to optimize attendance over a season. They must choose between investing resources evenly across a balanced portfolio of offerings or disproportionately concentrating resources on a few more desirable offerings at the expense of the rest of the portfolio. The better strategy is not always apparent. The authors investigate this research question in non–major league sports leagues using the Gini coefficient, a measure of equality/balance adapted from the field of economics. The spread of team success in a league, based on winning percentages and represented by the Gini coefficient, is used as an indicator of resource investment concentration. The findings indicate that availability, that is, season length, influences whether consumers value more a balanced or unbalanced investment strategy.
First Page
337
Last Page
346
Volume
21
Issue
3
Repository Citation
Levin, Michael, "An Analysis of Managers’ Resource Allocation Dilemma in a Fixed Ca pacity Situation" (2013). Business, Accounting and Economics Faculty Scholarship. 3.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/bus_fac/3
Original Citation
Levin, M. A., McDonald, R. E., & Wilcox, J. B. (2013). An Analysis of Managers' Resource Allocation Dilemma in a Fixed Capacity Situation. Journal Of Marketing Theory & Practice, 21(3), 331-340. doi:10.2753/MTP1069-6679210307
DOI
10.2753/MTP1069-6679210307
Peer Reviewed
1
Creative Commons License
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