across cities of similar size that host/do not host a premier professional football club. Qualitative screening is used to … compare coverage of diverse domains related to the place. Findings Hosting a top football club largely magnifies the media …

European football clubs could capitalize on in order to build or rebuild the brand identity of their respective team via the … Europa League. Design/methodology/approach – The authors followed a case analysis method. The authors selected teams that … the promise these teams articulate to their fans, on and off the football pitch. Moreover, the values that a team …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue for the necessity of regulating European club football financially, in … it within the field of European professional football. Findings – The paper finds substantial evidence of soft budget … constraints in professional football clubs, and argues that softness punishes the few financially well‐managed clubs in sporting …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the increasing commercialisation of professional football in France … pluralism of football clubs; thus opening up new perspectives for future research on clubs’ governance. It does not, however … organisational identity and make it more consistent. Practical implications – Governance and management issues in football might be …

expand internationally? Design/methodology/approach – The study involves four football cases for the 2009‐2010 season: Paris … Saint‐Germain and Nike, Olympique de Marseille and Adidas, Olympique Lyonnais and Umbro, and the French national football … attention should be paid to the differences between North America and Europe. Indeed, in North America, the league is very much …

eight European countries: Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden and the UK. Findings – The study … company strategies across Europe (with countries such as Germany and the Netherlands being more advanced). There is also some …

A comparison of state‐regulated provision of continuing vocational training in France with the voluntarist British … model highlights Britain′s poor record in the 1980s and 1990s. The widespread well‐financed training culture in France … legislating for compulsory training rights, which would benefit British workers as levelling up would take place. Europe needs a …