Corporate Social Responsibility and Sport Event Sponsorship
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Funk, Daniel
Neale, Larry
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Dr Maree Thyne, Dr Kenneth R. Deans, Assoc Prof Juergen Gnoth
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Demonstrating socially responsible behaviour has become increasingly important for corporations. Using the Psychological Continuum Model (PCM) as its theoretical framework, this paper examines the mediational role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the relationship between sport participation motivation, event attachment and purchase intent of a sport event's sponsors' products. A questionnaire was distributed to a sample of sport event participants (N=689) to measure sport participation motivation (recreation and charity), attachment to the event, CSR, and purchase intent of sponsors' products. Results reveal that CSR fully mediates the link between purchase intent and sport participation motivation and partially mediates the influence of attachment on purchase intent. The authors propose that corporations strategically align with sport events in which participants are attached to allow for CSR and the meaning elicited by the event to work jointly.
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ANZMAC 2007 Conference Proceedings: 3Rs reputation responsibility relevance
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