دانلود کتاب Management of the Cricketing Ecosystem: An Analytic Approach

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Preface
Contents
About the Author
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction
1.1 Cricket and Its Evolution
1.2 The Cricketing Ecosystem
1.2.1 Political Dimension
1.2.2 Commercial Dimension
1.2.3 Social Dimension
1.2.4 Technical Dimension
1.3 Crises and Resilience
1.4 IPL: The Game Changer
1.5 Conclusion
References
2 Management of the Cricketing Ecosystem
2.1 Stakeholders and Governance
2.2 Scant Management Focus in Contemporary Research
2.3 Establishing the Research Paradigms
2.3.1 Methodology
2.3.2 Sentiment Analysis of Viewpoints
2.3.3 Summary of Action Points
2.3.4 Evidence Based Assessment of Gaps
2.3.5 Research Paradigms
2.4 Finalising Scope of This Book
2.5 Conclusion
References
3 Impact Assessment Framework across Cricket Formats
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Modus Operandi
3.3 Ranking Three Formats of Cricket
3.4 Meta-Metric Framework for Formative Assessment
3.4.1 Influence of T20 on Test Matches
3.4.2 Influence of IPL on India’s Test Performance
3.5 Suggestions for Making Test Matches Popular
3.6 Conclusion
References
4 Formative Assessment of T20 Influences
4.1 Defining the Metrics under the Meta-metric Framework
4.2 Scraping Secondary Data from the Web
4.2.1 Strategy for Secondary Data Collection
4.2.2 Approaches for Scraping from the Web
4.3 Analysis-Ready Data Preparation
4.3.1 Data Validation
4.3.2 Data Transformation
4.4 Impact Assessment of T20 on Test Matches
4.5 Impact Assessment of T20 on India’s Test Performance
4.6 Summary Findings
References
5 Cricketers’ Career Pattern
5.1 Sportspersons Career Transition
5.2 A Look at the Related Works
5.3 Preparing the Base for Analysis
5.3.1 Hypothesis Formation and Data Identification for the First Question
5.3.2 Research Planning and Data Identification for the Second Question
5.4 Data Preparation
5.5 Career Patterns (Indian Players)
5.6 Career Patterns (Australian Players)
5.7 Closing Discussion
References
6 Fans’ Expectations from Cricket
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Sports as a Service and Fans as Its Consumers
6.3 Deriving the Construct REST
6.4 Hypotheses Formulation
6.5 Data Preprocessing
6.6 Results and Discussions
6.6.1 Effect of Age and Gender on Liking a Cricket Format
6.6.2 Modeling Overall Liking Using SEM
6.6.3 Performance Analysis for Test Matches
6.6.4 Performance Analysis for ODI Matches
6.6.5 Performance Analysis for T20 Matches
6.7 Managerial Implications
6.8 Conclusion
References
7 Steady-State Cricket Mix
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Volumetric Analysis of Cricket Mix
7.3 Country Progression across Formats
7.4 Identifying Homogeneous Cricket Regions
7.5 Steady-State Cricket Mix Using Markov Chain Analysis
7.6 Conclusion
References
8 Fine-Tuning the Cricket Mix
8.1 The Concept of Value
8.2 Problem Formulation
8.3 Value Creation and Appreciation Matrices
8.4 What-If Analysis
8.5 Conclusion
References
9 Concluding Remarks
9.1 Theoretical Novelty
9.2 Management Implications
9.3 Future Directions
References
Appendix
A.1 Questionnaire for Expert Panel
A.2 Questionnaire for Cricket Enthusiast
A.3 R Code Snippet
A.4 Google Sheets Code Snippet
A.5 Python Code Snippet
A.6 Java Code Snippet