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The objective of this study is to analyse the efficiency of non-profit sports clubs and identify the
perceptions of their directors with regards to the stakeholders that exert the greatest influence over
club efficiency levels. In order to analyse the efficiency of these clubs, we made recourse to the
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method. We also applied the Mann-Whitney test, to identify
whether there are significant differences between efficient and non-efficient clubs with regards to
the influence held by their stakeholders. We thus report that the majority of clubs operate efficiently.
Both the efficient and the non-efficient clubs classify the club managers, members, sponsors, fans and
athletes as the most important stakeholders to their efficiency levels. The results convey how there
are no significant differences among the management team perceptions on the role of stakeholders
in attaining club efficiency. The study also details the respective procedures that inefficient clubs
should adopt in order to approximate the efficiency frontier.
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Non-profit sport organisations Efficiency - DEA Sports management Stakeholder theory