...Ricardo Joaquim; Nuno Gonçalves; Liliana Pimentel; Bernardo Simões Purpose This study aims to investigate the factors influencing the financial performance of football clubs in Portugal, focusing on institutional and contextual variables – such as the impact of COVID-19 or the league in which...

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...Patrizia Tettamanzi; Francesco Grazioli; Michael Murgolo Purpose This study investigates how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the sustainability of sports business models by means of a specific case analysis, conducted on M-I Stadio S.r.l., the service management firm that provides all types...

... equation modeling (SEM) were used to analyze the data. Findings Factors such as sports involvement, sincerity, social media use, beliefs about sponsorship, sponsor's image, Covid-19 beliefs and emotions, awareness of and attitude toward sponsors were found to significantly predict spectators' purchase...

...Kim Schu; Holger Preuss Purpose This research aims to focus on the strategic management by National Olympic Committees (NOCs) during the COVID-19 crisis. The authors investigate “How are strategies being developed within European NOCs to tackle the impact of the corona crisis?” and “which measures...

...Eduardo Russo; Ariane Roder Figueira; Leonardo José Mataruna-dos-Santos Purpose This paper aims to understand how the sustainability theme has been incorporated into the new Olympic planning guidelines based on analysing the case of Tokyo (2020), which was severely impacted by the COVID-19...

...Beth G. Clarkson; Keith D. Parry; Alex Culvin; Stacey Pope Purpose Women's football faces an existential threat from COVID-19. Using case studies, the authors explore the COVID-19 responses of three highly ranked national football associations (Australia, England and the USA...

...Yann Carin; Cyprien Desquennes; Lukas Jaworski; Wladimir Andreff Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the economic effects of Covid-19 on French men's professional basketball club championships. Three research questions are raised: What are the characteristics of the economic model...