The intersection between ’strategic CSR’ and sports branding has a capacity to integrate stakeholders’ experiences with a brand and the psychological meaning or value attached to a brand given the interactionist nature of sports branding (Cortsen, 2013), i.e. the symbolic and experiential characteristics of brand image and the fact that brand attitudes are founded upon […]
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Happy New Year and welcome to 2014 – another year full of ‘sport management perspectives’ – looking back at defining moments in the second half of 2013
By Kenneth Cortsen on January 6, 2014 in Sport & CSR, Sport & Events, Sport & Media Relations, Sport Economy, Sport Management, Sport Marketing
In the sports year 2013, July offered Great Britain a vital moment when Andy Murray (Scotland) was crowned champion after defeating Novak Djokovic in the final and thus won the Wimbledon men’s singles title to break 77 years of British misery in the most prestigious tennis tournament. Murray’s title added to the Scotsman’s marketability and […]
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) […]
Corruption and Match-Fixing in Football – 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.). Photo: Malene Hejlskov Mortensen. “Sport is under threat but I urge all of you, don’t let them win! We […]
Kevin Magnussen & Formula 1 – potential to become Denmark’s most exposed sports brand internationally
By Kenneth Cortsen on November 15, 2013 in Sport & Events, Sport Economy, Sport Management, Sport Marketing
Kevin Magnussen just signed a contract with Formula 1 team McLaren and is set to make his Formula 1 debut in 2014. Formula 1 is the pinnacle of motor sports and from a Danish perspective it is MASSIVE to have another Dane included in this prestigious sport, especially with Kevin’s potential in mind. It is […]