Football’s transfer window activities have evolved over the years. Now, we are in the middle of another transfer window (January, 2014) and all the meaning associated with this. It marks isolated periods of time in which a football club can buy and sell and thus transfer players to re-structure its roster. In today’s professional football […]
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The football transfer market illustrates the transformation economy
By Kenneth Cortsen on December 10, 2013 in Best Of, Sport & Events, Sport Economy, Sport Management, Sport Marketing
Pine & Gilmore’s (1999) bestselling book “The Experience Economy – work is theater & every business a stage” marked the concept’s (i.e. experience economy) rapid blossoming. Following the development of economic offerings, which ranges from the economization of 1) commodities (in the agrarian economy), 2) goods (in the industrial economy), 3) services (in the service economy) […]
Gæsteindlæg: David Beckham – en langvarig og stærk brandingeffekt
Skrevet af danske sportsmanagement-studerende: Kevin Pedersen, Jonas Johansen, Kristian Rasmussen & Nicklas Larsen – (red. Kenneth Cortsen). Brands skal opbygges! Brandet ’Beckham’ har været gennem en lang proces, men lever stadig i bedste velgående til trods for, at David Beckham allerede har stoppet sin aktive karierre, men netop det faktum siger noget om den enorme […]
FC Barcelona, Real Madrid – business models and transfer deals
By Kenneth Cortsen on September 13, 2013 in Sport & Media Relations, Sport Economy, Sport Management, Sport Marketing
“In the age of Beckham and Rooney, Ronaldo and Zidane, the attempt to commercially control both images and information around football has never been so great. For those players at the pinnacle of the sport the rewards of playing the professional game and the commercial trappings that accompany it are viewed as recognition that their […]
Transfer market activities bring excitement and dynamism to the world of football
In the business of football (soccer), leagues, clubs, and players are objects of concentrated discussions and media attention in periods when transfer market activities are peaking. From a business perspective, clubs and leagues find themselves in a context characterized by ‘a pursuit of X-factor’ while the players are striving to find a good balance between […]