Effectiveness of the sports sponsorship image transfer : an experimental application

This is a summary of the author's PhD Thesis, supervised by Teresa Vallet-Bellmunt and Amparo Cervera-Taulet and defended on June 5th, 2009 at the Department of Business Administration and Marketing of the Jaume I University of Castellón (Spain). The thesis is awarded by European Doctorate Mention, it is written in Spanish and it also includes a summary in English. This research work deals with the identification of measures of sports sponsorship effectiveness specifically, image transfer effectiveness on the basis of the hierarchy of effects modeltaking into account the previous research in marketing and using both experimental and structural equation modelling (SEM) methodologies for data analysis. -- sports marketing ; sponsorship effectiveness ; image transfer ; experimental methodology ; structural equation models ; moderator variables