... affiliation, immersive experiences, intense loyalty and the creation of an enduring, local identity. This paper aims to explore how the nature of a sporting place has been shaped to change the practice of football as a sport, as a business and as entertainment. This paper uncovers how Forest Green Rovers (FGR...

... Celebrity Context Elite Football Interviews Management Organization United Kingdom Article Type: 2013 Awards for Excellence From: Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal, Volume 17, Issue 1 Social implications – Originality/value...

... the role of context in relation to elite interviewing. In order to consider and illustrate this phenomenon the argument engages with the organizational environment and behaviours of the English professional football industry with the intention of offering fresh perspectives into the form and function...

...Nicolas Chanavat; Guillaume Bodet Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide better understanding of potential foreign customers or satellite fans' perceptions of professional‐football brands, as this constitutes a necessary step toward setting up an internationalisation strategy to create...

...John Beech; Simon Chadwick; Alan Tapp Literature findings suggest a powerful role for Web sites in football club marketing. The authors used this as a springboard for an exploratory study which combined qualitative interviews with empirical observations of football Web sites. Links were discovered...