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The UEFA Champions League: maintaining the status quo?
Plumley, Daniel; Flint, Stuart W. - In: Team Performance Management 21 (2015) 5/6, pp. 247-258
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the competitive balance of the UEFA Champions League group stages. There are numerous financial and commercial benefits to clubs that participate in this competition. The current paper examines whether the seeding system operated by UEFA is...
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Global success in sport: the effective marketing and branding of the UEFA Champions League
Holt, Matthew - In: International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship 9 (2007) 1, pp. 46-56
The history and heritage of some brands is such that an accumulation of brand equity occurs whereby stocks of images, symbols, logos and icons are built up. The role of brand managers in these cases is to release this equity in an attempt to both realise the value of brand equity and provide a...
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A Contest Model of a Professional Sports League with Two-Sided Markets
Dietl, Helmut; Duschl, Tobias; Franck, Egon; Lang, Markus - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 232 (2012) 3, pp. 336-359
Summary This paper develops a model of a professional sports league with network externalities by integrating the theory of two-sided markets into a two-stage contest model. In professional team sports, the competition of the clubs functions as a platform that enables sponsors to interact with...
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The value of competition: competitive balance as a predictor of attendance in spectator sports
Levin, Michael A. - In: International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship 11 (2009) 1, pp. 2-19
This paper investigates the role of competitive balance among teams in a league in predicting attendance at spectator sporting events. It also controls for the demographic and economic characteristics of the league's markets, and changes in the number of teams in the league. The research relies...
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Editorial: the distinctiveness of sport: opportunities for research in the field
Chadwick, Simon - In: Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal 1 (2011) 2, pp. 120-123
Purpose – The purpose of this editorial is to set the context for the second issue of this new sport business management journal, by identifying the distinctive features of sport and sport management. The editorial also profiles the papers appearing in the journal. Design/methodology/approach...
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Diamonds are Forever: Job-Matching and Career Success of Young Workers
Göke, Stefan; Prinz, Joachim; Weimar, Daniel - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 234 (2014) 4, pp. 450-473
Summary This study addresses the probability of young workers seeking for promotion after vocational training. By applying semi-parametric duration analysis with competing risks to a dataset of 17 youth rosters, each of them winner of either DFB-U19-Bundesliga or DFB-Youth-Cup between 1998/1999...
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Managing brand identity strategy: how professional football wins the game
Blumrodt, Jens; Huang-Horowitz, Nell C. - In: Journal of Business Strategy 38 (2017) 6, pp. 31-37
of professional football league clubs. The CI was determined through an analysis of the clubs websites ( n = 20), and PI …
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European football teams' CSR engagement impacts on customer‐based brand equity
Blumrodt, Jens; Bryson, Douglas; Flanagan, John - In: Journal of Consumer Marketing 29 (2012) 7, pp. 482-493
Purpose – Brand management is a central issue for the sports industry in general, and professional football clubs … emphasized the evolution of societal concerns. Brand management in the football industry has to change to meet customer … expectations better. Practical implications – This research demonstrates that professional football clubs may be different from …
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Fraud and corruption in football: lessons from a survey of match-fixing in Cyprus
Krambia Kapardis, Maria; Levi, Michael - In: Journal of Financial Crime 30 (2023) 4, pp. 891-907
reduce significantly match-fixing in football. Design/methodology/approach An online survey was developed by the authors and … was administered to football stakeholders in Cyprus, namely, players, referees, coaches and team management. Findings The …. Research limitations/implications The survey considered match-fixing in only one sport (football) while the number of …
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Football clubs and financial crimes in Greece
Manoli, Argyro Elisavet; Antonopoulos, Georgios A.; … - In: Journal of Financial Crime 23 (2016) 3, pp. 559-573
the football clubs in Greece. Design/methodology/approach First, ethnographic research with two football clubs in Greece … realm of Greek football. Moreover, the telephone conversations that were available as the result of wiretapping by the Greek … National Intelligence Agency, in relation to the latest football match-fixing scandal (2011) were used. Finally, published …
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