1st Edition

Contemporary Issues in Sports Marketing

Edited By Argyro Elisavet Manoli Copyright 2025
136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores key and topical issues that are emerging in the field of sport marketing, while calling for further attention to the thriving sports industry. Marketing was one of the first topics to attract sport academics’ attention, based on its close relationship with revenue generating activities, for example ticket and merchandise sales, and television coverage. Soon after, sport... Read more

Sport marketing’s past, present and future: An introduction to contemporary issues in sports marketing

Argyro Elisavet Manoli

 

1. Brand consistency and coherency at the London 2012 Olympic Games

James Andrew Kenyon, Argyro Elisavet Manoli and Guillaume Bodet

 

2. Sponsorship programmes and corruption in sport: management responses to a growing threat

Samantha Roberts, Simon Chadwick and Christos Anagnostopoulos

 

3. Social media and sports: driving fan engagement with football clubs on Facebook

Leonor Vale and Teresa Fernandes

 

4. There goes my hero again: sport scandal frequency and social identity driven response

Sarah J. Kelly, Clinton S. Weeks and P. Monica Chien

 

5. Exploring value co-creation in Fan Fests: the role of fans

Dimitrios Kolyperas and Leigh Sparks

 

6. The influence of sport sponsorship on brand equity and purchase behavior

Charitomeni Tsordia, Dimitra Papadimitriou and Petros Parganas

 

7. Role of the stadium in the value enhancement process of a rugby union match

Jérôme Boissel, Véronique des Garets and Véronique Plichon

 

Biography

Argyro Elisavet Manoli is Associate Professor of Marketing and Management in Bergamo University. Following a career as a sports marketeer, she began her academic career in the UK. Her research interests focus on two broad areas, marketing communications management and integrity management in the context of sport.