高等研究所 訪問研究員 セミナー: “Participation Trophies: How Owner Ideology Creates Racial Sinecures for 14th/15th Player Positions on NBA Rosters” (6/3)
要旨/Abstract
In this study, we reacquaint management scholars with the corporate practice of sinecures, which are scarce, selectively apportioned, value-bearing, and duty-light role positions. We theorize that one reason racial discrimination in hiring and retention may perpetuate—despite legal and constitutional prohibitions against such discrimination—is that organizations create, apportion, and maintain sinecures for persons of different races in accordance with the political ideological preferences of the organization’s owner. Using an institutionally-created position from the National Basketball Association—the “14th/15th player” slots that derive from requirements that all teams have no more than 15 players on their rosters but can only play 13 of them per game—we examine how political ideology of the team owner interacts with player race to yield preferential hiring/retention outcomes. Utilizing daily game data from NBA players from the 2005-2006 through 2018-2019 seasons, this study demonstrates that White players have a higher hazard of being acquired as “14th/15th players” as the political ideology of the team owners grows more conservative, and that the effect is even higher for White U.S. players. We also find a lower hazard of White players being traded away from any position on the team (not just 14th/15th player positions) when the team is owned by politically conservative owners. The converse holds for teams with liberal owners. Thus, we find strong ideological effects in both “demand-side” and “supply-side” markets for athletes, as well as evidence of the apportionment of sinecures based on race, but not their maintenance.
講演者/Speaker
COLE, Benjamin M. (Professor, Fordham University)
日時/Date&Time
6月3日（水） 16:00–17:40 / June 3, 2026 (Wed.) 16:00 – 17:40
開催場所/Venue
早稲田大学 早稲田キャンパス 11号館 903号室 / Room #903, Building #11, Waseda Campus, Waseda University
対象/Prospected Audience
学生・研究者・教職員・一般 /Students, Graduate students, Faculty members, Research members, General Participants
言語/Language
英語/English
主催/Organizer
三橋 平（商学学術院 教授）
参加方法/Registration
Pre-registration required: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScvPnOezb7gEroJR2mHqIwtLdKQu1QDQbN0OBIOfL_6JNjDjg/viewform
(Deadline: May 15)
