caa a22 4500 605485135 CHVBK 20210128100439.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10551-013-1936-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10551-013-1936-3 Rao Sahib Padma Department of Global Economics and Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, P. O. Box 800, 9700 AV, Groningen, The Netherlands aut Status, Peer Influence, and Racio-ethnic Diversity in Times of Institutional Change: An Examination from European Labour Law [Elektronische Daten] [Padma Rao Sahib] This paper employs institutional theory as a theoretical lens and examines the role of status and peer influence on diversity following a change in European labour law in 1995. This change in European labour law, well-known as the Bosman ruling, significantly increased labour mobility in European soccer. The ruling lifted restrictions on the number of foreign players that soccer teams could recruit and eliminated compulsory transfer fees for players whose contracts had ended. We demonstrate that the Bosman ruling, while increasing the number of foreign players on a team, did not uniformly affect all teams. Our investigation indicates that the increase in racio-ethnic diversity in teams depended on the status of teams and on peer influence (the behaviour of similar teams). This setting, though specific to European labour law in the context of soccer, allows an examination of the complex interplay between racio-ethnic diversity, status, and peer influence in a period of institutional change. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Racio-ethnic diversity nationallicence Status nationallicence Peer influence nationallicence European labour law nationallicence Soccer teams nationallicence Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 126/2(2015-01-01), 205-218 0167-4544 126:2<205 2015 126 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-013-1936-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-013-1936-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Rao Sahib Padma Department of Global Economics and Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, P. O. Box 800, 9700 AV, Groningen, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 126/2(2015-01-01), 205-218 0167-4544 126:2<205 2015 126 10551