Do coaches in the National Basketball Association actually display racial bias? Replication and extension

We replicate and extend empirical evidence that has been interpreted as an indication of coaches’ racial bias in the National Basketball Association (NBA) by Schroffel and Magee (2012) and Zhang (2017; 2019). After replicating the published results, we extend them by modeling coaches’ decisions of “...

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Main Authors: ERTUG, Gokhan, MAORET, Massimo
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spelling sg-smu-ink.lkcsb_research-73752021-05-07T07:58:12Z Do coaches in the National Basketball Association actually display racial bias? Replication and extension ERTUG, Gokhan MAORET, Massimo We replicate and extend empirical evidence that has been interpreted as an indication of coaches’ racial bias in the National Basketball Association (NBA) by Schroffel and Magee (2012) and Zhang (2017; 2019). After replicating the published results, we extend them by modeling coaches’ decisions of “resting the starters,” a common tactical decision based on players’ quality and not on their race, thus exploring whether this tactic may provide an alternative explanation for associations that might thus far have been taken to indicate racial bias. Our results show that, after empirically accounting for “resting the starters,” the magnitude of associations that have been taken to indicate coaches’ racial bias becomes small and not statistically distinguishable from zero. We discuss the implications of these findings on literatures related to racial integration in organizations, and on the sociology of sports and race. 2020-06-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6376 info:doi/10.5465/amd.2018.0091 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7375/viewcontent/NBACoaches_2020_av_ph.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Racial bias coaches discrimination racial integration National Basketball Association NBA basketball Race and Ethnicity Sports Management Strategic Management Policy
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topic Racial bias
coaches
discrimination
racial integration
National Basketball Association
NBA
basketball
Race and Ethnicity
Sports Management
Strategic Management Policy
spellingShingle Racial bias
coaches
discrimination
racial integration
National Basketball Association
NBA
basketball
Race and Ethnicity
Sports Management
Strategic Management Policy
ERTUG, Gokhan
MAORET, Massimo
Do coaches in the National Basketball Association actually display racial bias? Replication and extension
description We replicate and extend empirical evidence that has been interpreted as an indication of coaches’ racial bias in the National Basketball Association (NBA) by Schroffel and Magee (2012) and Zhang (2017; 2019). After replicating the published results, we extend them by modeling coaches’ decisions of “resting the starters,” a common tactical decision based on players’ quality and not on their race, thus exploring whether this tactic may provide an alternative explanation for associations that might thus far have been taken to indicate racial bias. Our results show that, after empirically accounting for “resting the starters,” the magnitude of associations that have been taken to indicate coaches’ racial bias becomes small and not statistically distinguishable from zero. We discuss the implications of these findings on literatures related to racial integration in organizations, and on the sociology of sports and race.
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author ERTUG, Gokhan
MAORET, Massimo
author_facet ERTUG, Gokhan
MAORET, Massimo
author_sort ERTUG, Gokhan
title Do coaches in the National Basketball Association actually display racial bias? Replication and extension
title_short Do coaches in the National Basketball Association actually display racial bias? Replication and extension
title_full Do coaches in the National Basketball Association actually display racial bias? Replication and extension
title_fullStr Do coaches in the National Basketball Association actually display racial bias? Replication and extension
title_full_unstemmed Do coaches in the National Basketball Association actually display racial bias? Replication and extension
title_sort do coaches in the national basketball association actually display racial bias? replication and extension
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2020
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6376
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7375/viewcontent/NBACoaches_2020_av_ph.pdf
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