...Alfredo David Varea Calero; José M. Ramírez-Hurtado; Francisco Rejón-Guardia; Juan M. Berbel-Pineda Purpose This study aims to analyse the influence of football fans' involvement on sponsor brand equity and their purchase intention toward the sponsoring brand. To achieve this, we specified...

...Florian Follert; Werner Gleißner Purpose From the buying club’s perspective, the transfer of a player can be interpreted as an investment from which the club expects uncertain future benefits. This paper aims to develop a decision-oriented approach for the valuation of football players that could...

... that a football club can gain from the implementation of corporate citizenship activities through the community trust model of governance. Design/methodology/approach The study draws from qualitative primary and secondary data gathered from Charlton Athletic and Brentford football clubs. Findings Analysis...

...Andy Adcroft; Jon Teckman; Nnamdi Madichie Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show how one of the biggest phenomena of the twenty‐first century is the internationalisation of professional sports and how premier league football epitomises this. With the influx of foreign players, managers...

...Andy Adcroft; Jon Teckman; Ramzi Benkraiem; Waël Louhichi; Pierre Marques Purpose This paper aims to study the stock market reaction to sporting results of European listed football clubs. Specifically, it tries to examine the impact of the sporting results on the stock market valuation in terms...

...Andy Adcroft; Jon Teckman; Mike Mondello; Joel Maxcy Purpose This paper aims to evaluate the effects of both salary dispersion and incentive pay on team performance using data complied from the National Football League over the years 2000‐2007. Design/methodology/approach The authors consider...

...T.M. Nisar; R. Martin; Lynne Nikolychuk; Brian Sturgess Purpose The purpose of this paper is to help demonstrate the extent to which socio‐cultural and market‐oriented incentives jointly contribute to corporate control outcomes that prevail in the UK football industry. Design/methodology...

...Manuel Espitia‐Escuer; Lucía Isabel García‐Cebrián Purpose The purpose of this research is twofold: to evaluate the performance of Spanish First‐Division soccer teams, comparing the sports results that they actually obtain with those that they should have obtained on the basis of their potential...

... to the problem are the crux of problem solving. Attempts to develop a systematic procedure of problem solving, named the S‐S problem‐solving method, and to apply the method to the problem of the penalty shoot‐out ‐ a decisive stage in cup competition football matches. In the World Cup 1990 semi‐finals, England...