ANALYZING ROMANIAN SPORTS ORGANIZATIONS MANAGEMENT USING ECONOMETRIC FRONTIER

Sport is an institution interesting to study, being similar, but also different fromtraditional business organizations. Significant segments of sport have copied practices and thevalues of the business world, and as a result have been designed strategic plans, and players andadministrators have become paid employees.The purposes of this paper are to highlight main models used in sports performance management aswell as to test the relation between football organizations and economic growth for Romania forperiod 1992-2011. The results from the study performed suggest there is a non-linear relationbetween football organizations and economic growth that record a quadratic U-shape and aminimum level of GDPPC around 2457.5 RON.