In sport a widespread belief exists that "success breeds success and failure breeds failure".
One major example is "hot hand" or "streak shooting" - terms that refer to the belief that the performance during a particular period is significantly better than could be expected on the basis of the player's overall record.
Which theory in Management is supporting this phenomenon?
Are you refering to the construct of psychological momentum? I suggest you look at essential works by Vallerand 1988, perreault 1998, markman 2007, Briki, and Iso-Ahola 2014.
This constructs stems from litterature on sports teams, and I don't remember studies specifically applied to management, but Markman and Iso-ahola's papers are context-free, if I recall. You may also want to look at the notion of velocity from Carver & Scheier's model, applied many times to management by Johnson, Chang and Lord (2006, and more recent work).
Please let me know if that helped!
There is much written on the hot hand fallacy/phenomenon. A good discussion of it is on Andrew Gelman's blog. See http://andrewgelman.com/2014/08/12/understanding-hot-hand-myth-hot-hand-time/ for example. Gelman's blog gets comments from people from several disciplines so is useful for questions like this.
Dear Daniel and Pier-Eric ,
It's very insightful. Will surely go through it and come back to you!
Thanks
@Pier-Eric Chamberland,
I had a look at 'psychological momentum'. It can be useful in my research. But I did't find the article by Markman and Iso-ahola. May you share with me the files or links?
Try looking at winner and loser effects in animal contests - no specific reference in mind but there are plenty of papers on the topic.
Yes Ehsan, I will send you the files when I get back from the weekend. Cheers!
Dear Ehsan,
I revisited this question today and realised I had forgotten to follow-up on it. How is your research going and do you still need the Markman + Iso-Ahola articles?
Thanks Pier-Eric, I've submitted my paper. It's still under review! Best of luck for you in future research
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