Global Sport Sponsorship (Sport Commerce and Culture) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845200810 ISBN 13: 9781845200817

Publisher: Berg Publishers, 2005

Synopsis

Estimated to have an annual worth of US$24.8 billion dollars, the global sport sponsorship industry has become of vital importance to anybody interested in understanding the sport-commerce nexus. Global Sport Sponsorship is the first text to provide a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary analysis of this industry. Leading scholars from marketing, management, sociology, cultural studies, tourism, and gender studies address issues central to current debates in each of these disciplines. Topics covered include:the strategic nature of global sport sponsorship;the role of celebrities in global advertising;controversies surrounding conventional norms of what constitutes 'acceptable' sponsorship;the utilization of sponsorship in the construction of global alliances;using sponsorship to negotiate local markets;the development of effective methods of evaluation.Global Sport Sponsorship is essential reading for anyone involved in the practice or academic study of one of the world's largest industries.

About this title

About the Author:

John Amis is Associate Professor in the Department of Human Movement Sciences and Education, The University of Memphis.T Bettina Cornwell is Professor of Marketing in the UQ Business School at the University of Queensland.

Review:

Global Sport Sponsorship provides an important contribution to the literature on sports sponsorships. The book succeeds in achieving its goal of providing the first truly cutting-edge perspective on the cultural, economic, and social consequences of sponsorships on a global basis. Because sport has become an increasingly international phenomenon, this book's global perspective could not be more timely. -- Dennis Howard, Head of Marketing and Philip H. Knight Professor of Business, University of Oregon A timely, comprehensive and challenging analysis of the phemonemon of global sport sponsorship which should be essential reading for both students and researchers. -- Barrie Houlihan, Loughborough University

About this edition

• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1845200810
• ISBN 13: 9781845200817
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Cornwell Bettina T., Amis John M.