...Marcus Becker; Timo Zimmermann; Judith Maria Beermann Purpose This study examines how the public sustainability reporting of Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co. KGaA (BVB), a listed German professional football club, can be assessed through a Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)-oriented retrieval...

... of professional football. Aurélien Francois can be contacted at: aurelien.francois@univ-rouen.fr 18 10 2025 30 03 2026 27 05 2026 27 05 2026 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Institutional change Organizational...

... study approach with a content analysis of sustainability reports of sports organizations, football clubs and football event organizers. Paper originality derives also from the following: first, the paper is focused on European professional football, which is one of the biggest sports industries...

...Dimitra Papadimitriou; Kyriaki Kaplanidou; Kostas Alexandris; Nikos Theodorakis Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test the psychometric properties of the Team Brand Personality Scale by Blank et al. (2013, 2018) in the context of the professional football clubs in Greece, based...

... if they, for example, increase their happiness or are a source of pride (Süssmuth et al., 2010 ; Elling et al., 2014). In this paper, we aim to elicit the willingness to pay (WTP) using the contingent valuation method (CVM) for first-tier professional football in Denmark when tangible benefits...