Affective outcomes of membership in a sport fan community

B Mastromartino, JJ Zhang - Frontiers in psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In this mini-review, we shed light on the important, yet under researched topic area in sport
management–understanding the role that emotion plays for members of sport fan …

Sports celebrity personality and purchase intention: the role of endorser-brand congruence, brand credibility and brand image transfer

JS Rai, A Yousaf, MN Itani, A Singh - Sport, Business and …, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to examine the influence of five sports celebrity personality (SCP)
attributes–attractiveness, expertise level, credibility, trustworthiness and character–on …

Does non-hard-sell content really work? Leveraging the value of branded content marketing in brand building

C Lou, Q Xie, Y Feng, W Kim - Journal of Product & Brand …, 2019 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to test the role of branded content marketing on YouTube in brand
building and explicates the mechanism through which brand content influences brand …

Do fans care about the activist athlete? A closer look at athlete activism effect on brand image

SM Brown, NT Brison, G Bennett… - … Journal of Sport …, 2022 - journals.humankinetics.com
US professional athletes increasingly have engaged in athlete activism. Such actions have
elicited a wide range of responses from sport fans, calling into question whether an athlete's …

An extended source attractiveness model: the advertising effectiveness of distinct athlete endorser attractiveness types and its contextual variation

B Frank, S Mitsumoto - European Sport Management Quarterly, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Research question According to past research, the effectiveness of athlete endorsements of
advertised products is low on average and strongly depends on the context. This article …

Endorsement and promoting sport and physical activity to young people: exploring gender and the career status of athlete endorsers

S Behnoosh, G Dickson, M Naylor - Managing Sport and Leisure, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Rationale/Purpose We investigated the role of gender (both endorser and
audience) and career status on young people's attitude, participation intention and …

Do consumers care about human brands?: A case study of using Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique (ZMET) to map two athletes' engagements in social and …

Y Noh, NY Ahn, AJ Anderson - European Sport Management …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Research Question We aimed to explore consumers' perceptions of two athletes
and athletes' engagements in social and political advocacy. Research Methods We …

Micro-meso-macro framework: a three-layered approach to understand brand pride

G Marmat, M Kashif - Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to develop a micro-meso-macro framework of brand pride to
understand brand pride, its forms, characteristics and the interdependence of this construct …

Exploring the explicit and implicit appeal of retro sport logos

B Dwyer, Z Scola, J Drayer - Sport Marketing Quarterly, 2020 - muse.jhu.edu
The current multi-study examination explored explicit and implicit appeal of a prominent form
of retro sport marketing: retro team logos. Study 1 utilized the stimuli-organism-response …

Can I be a sportsperson and a worker? Analytics on athlete and coach dual careers

M Mingione, G Mattia, K Podnar… - Journal of Marketing …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract In 2007, the European Commission introduced the term “dual career”(DC) to
indicate the specific challenges elite sportspersons face in combining a sports career with a …