The motto of the ECA is “LEADING THE WAY FOR FOOTBALL CLUBS IN EUROPE” and on Monday the 5th of September, the ECA will celebrate the winners of the 7th edition of the ECA Awards as part of the 17th ECA General Assembly. The ECA Awards event is a chance to applaud a football club […]
Tag Archives | FIFA
Scandals and the business of sports: implications for new approaches in the sports industry.
Sports business expert, Patrick Nally: “Where there is money, there is greed….” Harvard Business School Professor Stephen Greyser: “For rights holders and commercial stakeholders like sponsors, it is a matter of being where the public’s heads and wallets are in 2016….” In the light of the many scandals that influence the business of sports, I […]
Hvor er sportsverdenen på vej hen i en tid med stigende kommercialisering samt fokus på positiv bæredygtighed og transparens? Har sporten behov for forandringer?
Billede: #OscarGate var en negativ dansk fodboldnyhed, som tiltrak stor int. bevågenhed (kilde: Politiken) For et par uger siden var der stress på i den danske sportspresse, da det kom frem, at bestyrelsesformanden og storaktionæren i Brøndby IF Jan Bech Andersen, anvendte et pseudonym til at kritisere bl.a. cheftræner Thomas Frank i et online fanforum. […]
En kinesisk revolution – fra miniput til mastodont?
Foto: Investeringslysten er stor i kinesisk fodbold (kilde: Asian Football Confederation). Med en placering på FIFA’s verdensrangliste som nummer 93 bag nationer som Botswana og Uzbekistan, er Kina en miniput i fodboldens verden. Den nuværende udvikling i landet indikerer dog, at dette er på vej til at ændres. Senest smadrede Jiangsu Suning transferrekorden ved at […]
The linkage between sports and attention economy
”Understanding and managing attention is now the single most important determinant of business success” (Davenport & Beck, 2013, p. 3) The above-mentioned words give attention the economic perspective of being a ‘new currency’. While it may be a rather intangible concept, it is something tradable. Positive attention is in high demand but it is also perishable […]