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: In basketball, ball possession can begin and end in many different ways, for example, ball possession may begin with an out-of-bounds, a stolen ball, a rebound etc, and may also end with a throw, a turnover or when the attack time has expired. Starting from the working hypothesis that the backboard rebounds represent an important factor in gaining ball possession, we have proposed to identify and analyze the game parameters recorded in the national basketball leagues. The theoretical documentation included explaining, based on specialized literature, terms related to ball possession. Also, in order to accomplish the purposes of this research, we have used statistical analysis (possession, arithmetic mean, amplitude) and graphical representation. This study focused on all teams participating in the 2019-2020 season of the National Basketball Leagues (16 men’s and 13 women’s teams). Following the analysis and centralization of the game parameters from the 146 games played in the men’s league and 144 games in the women’s league, we have identified the main ways of gaining ball possession. Backboard rebounds represent the main way of gaining ball possession (which confirms the hypothesis).

Sport is an institution interesting to study, being similar, but also different from traditional business organizations. Significant segments of sport have copied practices and the values of the business world, and as a result have been designed strategic plans, and players and administrators have become paid employees. The purposes of this paper are to highlight main models used in sports performance management as well as to test the relation between football organizations and economic growth for Romania for period 1992-2011. The results from the study performed suggest there is a non-linear relation between football organizations and economic growth that record a quadratic U-shape and a minimum level of GDPPC around 2457.5 RON. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

Even though most studies from the specialized economic literature approach various problematic aspects linked to corporations, production or service providing companies worldwide, a phenomenon that deserves to be researched is the management of sport organizations because, especially in the contemporary world, sport has become both a means to preserve health and to spend one's leisure time, but it is also a field in which a significant amount of money is made and invested. In light of this, sport organizations in general and especially football clubs must find the best tools and methodologies of management with the aim of ensuring organizational sustainability. A very important aspect of this undertaking stems from the phase of sorting or selecting and training child and junior players; they represent both the cheapest and most valuable human resource that can efficiently and effectively ensure both a level of performance, as well as financial income within a football club. This is an integrating part of a chain of sustainable value within a sport organization. In this context, the decision-maker responsible for these aspects are sometimes confronted with situations of uncertainty or ambiguity ultimately due to subjective reasoning, especially in the case of evaluating children or juniors; thus, the implementation of a qualitative mathematical instrument represented by fuzzy logic in the sorting and selection process of this human resource that would catalyse the delineation of a chain of value that can be sustained throughout the years within a football club represents a direction towards which any sport entity should aim, not necessarily those concerned with football.

Starting from Michael Porter's diagnosis regarding the dynamics of the competitive environment based on five forces and from the perspective of the value chain analysis in achieving the competitive advantage on a cutting edge market, this article proposes an in-depth analysis in the topic of purchasing decisions within economic organizations, whose processes need to be approached strategically in order for organizations to develop and evolve properly. Managing in a proper way the relation with the suppliers of goods, raw materials, and services will determine the costs to decrease and thus the revenues and implicitly the profit will grow, placing the entity on a good track in fighting with competition and bringing benefits for all its stakeholders. Moreover, taking into account that the environment in which organizations operate is often surrounded by uncertainty, the decisional process, especially the strategic one, is characterized by ambiguity, doubled also by the subjectivity of the human factor in decisional reasoning. In this context, choosing the right supplier according to specific selection criteria represents the most important decision of the purchasing function. Sometimes, it requests the implementation of qualitative mathematical methods such fuzzy logic, which is a powerful tool that can efficiently shape the ambiguity within decision-making process and support the organization long-term strategy and competitive market positioning.

Even though most studies from the specialized economic literature approach various problematic aspects linked to corporations, production or serviceproviding companies worldwide, a phenomenon that deserves to be researched is the management of sport organizations because, especially in the contemporary world, sport has become both a means to preserve health and to spend one’s leisure time, but it is also a field in which a significant amount of money is made and invested. In light of this, sport organizations in general and especially football clubs must find the best tools and methodologies of management with the aim of ensuring organizational sustainability. A very important aspect of this undertaking stems from the phase of sorting or selecting and training child and junior players; they represent both the cheapest and most valuable human resource that can efficiently and effectively ensure both a level of performance, as well as financial income within a football club. This is an integrating part of a chain of sustainable value within a sport organization. In this context, the decision-maker responsible for these aspects are sometimes confronted with situations of uncertainty or ambiguity ultimately due to subjective reasoning, especially in the case of evaluating children or juniors; thus, the implementation of a qualitative mathematical instrument represented by fuzzy logic in the sorting and selection process of this human resource that would catalyse the delineation of a chain of value that can be sustained throughout the years within a football club represents a direction towards which any sport entity should aim, not necessarily those concerned with football.