Consumer loyalty: the meaning of attachment in the development of sport team allegiance.

By Daniel C. Funk, Jeffery D. James. 2006

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Marketing, Sociology and Political Science

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Sport consumer motivation: Autonomy and control orientations that regulate fan behaviours (2012, background): “The bulk of this work embraces the concept that spectator sport provides the opportunity to satisfy individual needs and receive benefits, and specifies motivation as the substantive basis for sport consumer behaviour activity (Funk & James, 2006).”
International Sport Event Participation: Prior Sport Involvement; Destination Image; and Travel Motives (2007, methodology): “In summary, the PCM’s framework, and in particular the attraction process, accounts for the complexity of motivation for international sport event participation.”
Exploring the development of team identification: the contribution of social identity and the psychological continuum model (2012, unknown): “…progression to higher stages in the PCM is accompanied by strengthened cognition of support, interaction with the self-concept, affective significance and attitude persistence (Funk & James, 2001, 2006), which are all fundamentally linked with the central propositions of social identity theory.”
Measuring the Motives of Sport Event Attendance: Bridging the Academic-Practitioner Divide to Understanding Behavior (2009, unknown): “This level of knowledge reflects the realization that a specific sport consumption activity provides opportunities to satisfy needs and acquire benefits (Funk & James, 2006; MacInnis et al., 1991).”
What is eSports and why do people watch it? (2017, background): “Moreover, many previous studies have already assessed the model fit (see e.g. Funk and James, 2006; James and Ridinger, 2002; Robinson et al., 2004; Robinson and Trail, 2005; Seo and Green, 2008; Trail and James, 2011; Won and Kitamura, 2007).”
Testing a Hierarchy of Effects Model of Sponsorship Effectiveness (2012, background): “While this sequence is feasible for sponsorship generally, in the context of sport sponsorship it fails to consider the psychological connection that individuals develop with sports teams and the role such a connection has in guiding sport consumer behavior (Funk & James, 2006).”
Sport Tourists’ Involvement with a Destination (2013, background): “…movement from destination awareness to destination attraction as well as from destination attraction to destination attachment may be most important for destination marketers because of the development of preference and psychological connections within these progressions (Funk & James, 2006).”
The Impact of Constraints on Motivation, Activity Attachment, and Skier Intentions to Continue (2011, methodology): “Activity Attachment was measured using three attitude strength properties: (a) knowledge (functional meaning), (b) importance (symbolic meaning), and (c) affect (emotional meaning)(Funk & James, 2006; Gladden & Funk, 2002).”
The Antecedents and Outcomes of Attachment and Sponsor Image Within Charity Sport Events (2010, methodology): “Participants were given a multi-attribute questionnaire that included: (a) 12 items to measure Recreation Motives of Escape, Competency, Socialization, and Intellectual (Beard & Ragheb, 1983); (b) 12 items to measure Charity Motives of Reciprocity, Self-Esteem, Need to Help Others, and Desire to Imp”
The Meaning Behind Attachment: Exploring Camaraderie, Cause, and Competency at a Charity Sport Event (2009, methodology): “The attachment process involves the interaction among motives and needs satisfied at the attraction outcome level with an individual’s existing values (Funk & James, 2006).”