A cricket ground or a football stadium? The business of ground sharing at the Adelaide Oval before 1973
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2016
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Frost, L.
Lightbody, M.
Carter, A.
Halabi, A.K.
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Business History, 2016; 58(8):1164-1182
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Before 1973, cricket and Australian Football used the Adelaide Oval for major games during their respective seasons. Football’s popularity as a spectator sport prompted its organising body to seek to build an improved stadium, but cricket authorities controlled the asset and acted to maintain its specialised character as a cricket ground. A case study of how the gains from a shared capital good are negotiated when asset controllers and users have different objectives is provided. A series of counterfactual scenarios based on football remaining at the Oval is constructed from archival sources and their outcomes projected based on data in financial reports.
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Copyright 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group