· Horizontal
· Vertical
· Conglomerate
The dual nature of professional sports leagues and antitrust: is explained by showing how professional sports leagues are simultaneously a single entity and a collection of competing firms. The antitrust laws have various exemptions that help professional sports leagues to compete better.
Antitrust actions by competing professional sports leagues :is explained by how lawsuits can be a strategy of new formed sports leagues to gain parity with existing sports leagues. They also have litigation that is broken into five major issues.
The dual nature of profession sports leagues and antitrust deals with the principle of restrictions, making the competition better between teams and leagues. An example in the sport industry would be the Raiders moving from Oakland to Los Angeles even though the NFL did not want it to happen.
The antitrust actions by competing professional sports leagues deals with the principle of game theory by how organizations try to get themselves in the best position to be successful financially and have the best public image. An example in the sport industry is NHL not allowing their players to quit and play for the W.H.L.
Will the make up of how leagues are set-up change in the next 20 years due to the economy?
Eschenfelder, M. J., & Li, M. (2007). Antitrust Issues in Sport. The Economics of Sports (Sport Management Library) (2 ed., pp. 189-204). Morgantown: Fitness Information Technology.
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