Are Premier League football teams too trigger happy when it comes to their managers? Does a longer tenure mean greater success?

Applying a variety of business management theories and models, academics from Nottingham University Business School, Loughborough, Sheffield and UWE in Bristol, try to get to the bottom of the issue.

In this interview Dr Matthew Hughes, co-researcher and lead author on the project from the Nottingham University Business School, lays out the ideas and some of the surprising results.