Consumer Orientation Toward Sporting Events
定义了消费者对体育赛事的导向概念,开发并验证了测量量表,展示了其作为市场细分工具的价值。
Sporting events offer a strong emotional value to consumers and therefore occupy a prominent role in their life. In addition, they represent an important market potential for sponsors with an economic value in excess of $200 billion a year. A growing concern shared by researchers and sports marketers is to understand the various motivations that bring individuals to consume sporting events and related goods and services. The present research offers a definition of the concept of orientation toward a sporting event (OSE), develops a reliable instrument that captures its various facets, carefully validates the OSE scale in different contexts, and, finally, illustrates how this instrument may be used as a valuable segmentation tool.