Are they wearing their pride on their sleeve? Examining the impact of team and university identification upon brand equity
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posted on 2024-06-17, 23:08authored byH Wear, B Heere, A Clopton
This study examined the effectiveness of sportswear companies’ sponsorship of intercollegiate athletic departments, and the subsequent effects on the students of the university. The value of these sponsorship contracts has grown exponentially, with new contracts averaging $6 million a year per institution (Kish, 2014). However, little research has been devoted to the impact of the relationship between sportswear brands and university students, and it is uncertain what the return on investment of these sponsorships are to the apparel companies, other than media exposure. To examine how effective these sponsorships were, the researchers asked students about their identification with a college basketball team, the university itself, and conducted a linear regression analysis to understand the effect of these identification processes on the brand equity of the sportswear sponsor. Results were not statistically significant, signifying that team and university identification did not impact sportswear brand equity.
History
Journal
Sport marketing quarterly
Volume
25
Pagination
79-89
Location
Morgantown, W. Va.
ISSN
1061-6934
eISSN
1557-2528
Language
eng
Publication classification
C Journal article, C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal