The evolution of professional sports demonstrates a growing tendency of stakeholder demands dominating the application of sound governance principles, enhanced transparency, and good corporate citizenship. The Peng Shuai case in international tennis – and how the WTA has tackled it – illustrates an interesting development when it comes to the commercialization and politicization of sports. […]
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Sports, strategic CSR and compelling storytelling
Today, the intersection between sports and business is a powerful way for corporations and other sports-related entities to place their resources while combining this investment with efforts of strategic CSR. Dick’s Sporting Goods presents a recent case example within this context in a new TV commercial, see video below. Through heartfelt storytelling, the sports brand […]
Governance in football when it comes to player valuations, transfer market activities and contract negotiations
Given the rapid commercialization and globalization in the football economy in the wake of the Bosman ruling, professional football clubs have had an intensified focus on investments across national borders to influence the national and international competitiveness. This development has produced some problem areas that football’s international governing bodies FIFA and UEFA (and the national […]
Branding and social media taken to a new level – What can we expect in the years to come? Case-focus: Major Sporting Events, Summer 2014 – by ‘guest blogger’ Malene Hejlskov Mortensen
Guest blog written by Malene Hejlskov Mortensen, BA in Sport Management, University College of Northern Denmark & MA in Sport Management, London Metropolitan University, passionate about sports and the business of sports – (Kenneth Cortsen, ed.). With major sporting events like The FIFA World Cup, Wimbledon, Tour de France, The Commonwealth Games, and US PGA, […]
Football marketing targeting kids
“When I take my kid out and hit him ground balls at shortstop, he wants to be Derek Jeter. He doesn’t want to be me. So any professional athlete who tells you he’s not a role model is full of baloney.” (Father and Little League Coach – Pulley, 2001, p. 131 in Bush et al., […]