Sports Sponsorship: Perspectives of Involvement, Identification and Prestige Between Fans and Team

Authors

  • Fabricia Durieux Zucco Universiadade Regional de Blumenau – FURB
  • Leonel Cezar Rodrigues Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE)
  • Nilva Kock Universiadade Regional de Blumenau – FURB
  • Valéria Riscarolli Faculdades das Américas – FAM

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5585/podium.v4i3.137

Keywords:

Sports management, Sport sponsorship, Sponsorship decision making, Sport marketing

Abstract

Investments in Brazilian sports are relatively low, while the sports marketing is capable of reaching involvement levels of supporters that may interfere with the stimuli of the purchase decision process. Thus, this study is intended to build an empirically tested model to explain the factors that influence the perception of fans’ to the sponsorship in sport. To do this, we conducted a survey with 172 fans of an indoor soccer team from the higher division of this sport in Brazil. Survey’s results allow us to build a robust enough model that explains how the identification of fans with a club or sport influences the prestige and the involvement of fans with the club. Identification, involvement and club prestige influence, in turn, the perception of club’s sponsorship. This paper contributes to the theory of sports marketing by empirically validating a theoretical model. In doing so, it also contributes to the praxis of sport management with new information on effective sport sponsorship.

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Author Biographies

Leonel Cezar Rodrigues, Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE)

professor titular e pesquisador do Programa de Doutorado em Administração (PPGA/UNINOVE) e Coordenador do Programa de Doutorado Interinstitucional em Administração da Universidade Nove de Julho e Coordenador de Relações Internacionais do PPGA/UNINOVE.

Valéria Riscarolli, Faculdades das Américas – FAM

professora da Faculdade das Américas - FAM, São Paulo

Published

2015-12-01

How to Cite

Zucco, F. D., Rodrigues, L. C., Kock, N., & Riscarolli, V. (2015). Sports Sponsorship: Perspectives of Involvement, Identification and Prestige Between Fans and Team. PODIUM Sport, Leisure and Tourism Review, 4(3), 140–152. https://doi.org/10.5585/podium.v4i3.137