486 Int. J Latest Trends Fin. Eco. Sc. Vol‐3 No. 2 June 2013 The Main Portuguese SAD´s Comparative Study between the Economic and Financial Viability and the Success of their Sports Clubs Miguel Henriques Félix da Silva#, José António Filipe* # Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) Lisboa Portugal
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[email protected] Abstract - The object of this paper is to assess the Europe currently lives a fairly sharp economic profitability of the four leading Portuguese Sociedades and social crisis. These times are of containment at Anónimas Desportivas (SADs)1 by comparing the European, national and regional level. It seems a economic and financial data of each SAD with the consensus that, for the time being, the core of the respective sports results of the clubs attached to these sovereign debt crisis, which sprouted after the SADs. The methodology followed the various steps financial crisis started September 15, 2008 with the inherent to this type of paper, all the while adopting both bankruptcy of U.S. Investment Bank Lehman a qualitative and quantitative approach, i.e. a hybrid Brothers, being basically geographically concentrated approach. Initially, we took on an interpretative in part of the periphery of the Euro Zone, where paradigm, as the elements necessary for research arise Portugal is included. from the observation and analysis of data. We began by Portugal is, for the time being, dependent on its increasing our scientific knowledge on the subject of creditors and is now a country forced to austerity analysis: SADs, sports results and balanced financial plans, which are a condition of foreign aid for its structures.