Despite the strong trend for service brands sponsoring events, the literature provides few theory-based and field-tested guidelines for services marketing managers who are charged with selecting events to sponsor. In response, this study provides a congruity-based framework for sponsors’...

Building on source credibility theory, the authors test a structural model for advertisers and scholars to explain brand outcomes of celebrity endorsement. The empirical context is the global airline industry with a fitting sample of at an international airport (n=637). Results of structural...

This sport marketing study establishes a clearer demarcation between an event sponsor and a sponsored event in relation to investigating the potential value of congruity. Based on 1,615 field surveys, we uncover the asymmetrical impact of event-sponsor fit on the title sponsor and sponsored...

In a field study at a professional tennis event, the authors examine attendees’ visual processing and need for cognition in sponsorship processing. To add a managerial perspective, depth interviews are conducted with senior managers in sport/event management. Field study findings demonstrate...

The purpose of this study is to examine outcomes associated with the sponsorship of a charitable sporting event by an automobile manufacturer. Specifically, it investigates: perceptions of the title sponsor and its products, and how experience with the sponsor's products during the event...