Marketing DSS architecture for sports sponsorship management

Sports Management and Marketing

Sponsorship-linked Marketing: Opening the Black Box

Sponsorship of sports, arts, and causes has become a mainstream marketing communications tool. A great deal of fieldwork has attempted to gauge the relative effectiveness of sponsorship in a marketing context, but these weakly controlled field studies contribute little to our understanding of how individuals process sponsorship-linked marketing communications. By considering possible underlying...

Sports Tourism Marketing

Research dealing with the motives of sports tourists from a marketer’s perspective remains underdeveloped. This chapter describes the phenomenon of sports tourism and aspires to examine with an empirical study the motives of winter and summer sports tourists. The first sample (n=339) was comprised of active as well as passive summer sports tourists. The second sample (n=477) only focused on act...

Compiling a Marketing Strategic Plan for Iran's Student Sports Federation

The present research has aimed to compile a strategic marketing plan for the Student Sports Federation. Using a mixed research method, the study took a qualitative and quantitative approach. In the qualitative phase, the statistical population of this research consisted of the Student Sports Federation managers and officials, university professors and experts on students' sports (16 individuals...

Digitalization and Sports Sponsorship Strategy: A Review and Research Agenda

Background. The sports industry has been transformed through digitalization processes. One traditional area of sports marketing strategy that has changed significantly is sponsorship. Objectives. To reveal how digitalization has impacted sports sponsorship strategies according to the findings of academic articles in leading sports management journals. In light of the dramatic transformation of...