이 연구의 목적은 식음료 기업의 스포츠 스폰서십 활동에 대한 커뮤니케이션 효과를 규명하여 최근 활발하게 진행되고 있는 식음료 기업의 스포츠 스폰서십활동에 대한 커뮤니케이션효과를 파악하여 기업의 전략적 마케팅방안을 모색할 수 있도록 하는 기초자료를 제공하는데 있다. 이를 위해 지난 1월 식 음료기업 N사가 주최한 스포츠대회에 참여 및 관전한 사람 300명을 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하여 267부 를 통계분석에 활용하여 다음의 결과를 얻었다. 첫째, 스포츠 스폰서십은 기업태도에 정적영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 스포츠 스폰서십 요인 중 이미지제고, 홍보, 촉진은 제품태도에 정적영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으나 이벤트기여는 제품태도에 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 기업태도는 제품 태도에 정적영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 넷째, 기업태도는 구매의도에 정적영향을 미치는 것으로 나타 났다. 다섯째, 제품태도는 구매의도에 정적영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다.

본 연구에서는 스포츠스폰서십 기업의 제품을 고관여 제품과 저관여 제품을 구분하여, 연구대 상의 특성에 따른 스포츠스폰서십 인지의 광고효과를 분석하고자 한다. 선정된 모집단을 대상으로 총 450 명을 표본대상으로 하여 설문지를 배부하였다. 회수된 438부의 설문지 중 불성실하게 응답했다고 판단되 는 12부의 설문자료가 제외되었으며, 총 426부의 최종 유효 표본 자료가 실제 분석에 사용되었다. 본 연구 에서는 PASW 19.0을 활용하여 빈도분석, 신뢰도 분석, 탐색적요인분석, 일원분산분석, t-test를 실시하였 다. 본 연구에서는 모든 통계치의 유의수준을 .05로 설정하여 다음과 같은 결론을 도출하였다. 첫째, 성별 에 따른 저관여 제품 및 고관여 제품 브랜드 효과 차이분석 결과 저관여 제품 및 고관여 제품 스폰서효과 의 모든 하위변수에서 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 나타나지 않았다. 둘째, 학력에 따른 저관여 지각된 품질, 저관여 스폰서 친숙 이미지 차이를 분석한 결과 통계적으로 유의한 차이를 나타내고 있다. 셋째, 저관여 지 각된 품질과 고관여 지각된 품질 차이 분석결과 통계적으로 유의한 차이를 나타내고 있다. 또한, 저관여 스 폰서 친숙 이미지와 고관여 스폰서 이미지 차이 분석결과 통계적으로 유의한 차이를 나타내고 있다.

This study investigates an under-developed research area, sports partnership management, to deepen the understanding of the strategic implications derived from a sports club’s partnerships. A relationship perspective to the portfolio framework is employed by considering the complexity of a partnership as the managerial input variable, and the value impact of the partnership as the output variable. It adopts a longitudinal single case study design, allowing aspects of both exploration and explanation through evidence from multiple sources within the organization. The data collection entails a three-phase empirical research process, collecting data from different sources within a professional sports club. Based on a dataset containing two waves of contract data collected in Phase 2 coupled with interviews in Phase 1 and discussions in Phase 3, this research provides three meaningful applications of a partnership portfolio framework. Theoretically, this research provides insights into enhancing the rigor of the operationalization of a portfolio analysis by paying particular attention to the validity of the portfolio framework and its measurement issues. Practically, the study offers a framework for analyzing its partnership portfolio that provides insights into the current status of the portfolio and ways to build, sustain and/or improve the management of their partnerships.

Sports Sponsorship is considered to provide a highly valuable communication environment for companies to leverage brand equity. However, effectiveness evaluations of sponsorship activities mainly focus on explicit self-reports or focus interviews. Such communication evaluations do not take into account research from psychology demonstrating that associations and judgments are often activated and strongly influenced by implicit (automatic) processes, with no (or only little) conscious awareness of such information processing. Against that background, the goal of the current work is to shed further light on the impact of in-game advertising as innovative sponsor-linked marketing tactic on the dual brand knowledge–incorporating both implicit and explicit information processing–as key success indicator of sport sponsorship.

Sports Sponsorship is considered to be one of the most effective tools in marketing. However, in order to assess the effectiveness of sponsoring activities in customer’s mind, science and business practice often refer to explicit measures such as self-reports or focus interviews. Such aligned conventional measurement approach is missing mental processes which run without awareness, so-called implicit processes, taking place and activity hidden in the unconscious mind. Against that background, the goal of the current work is to shed further light on the impact of athlete sponsorship on dual processes underlying customer’s associations toward a brand.

Sportswear brands in particular have been intensely competing to get an opportunity to prove the value of their new technology and products through sports sponsorship. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship among sports involvement, the attitude toward sports sponsorship carried by sportswear brands, brand equity, and purchase intention of the products of the sponsor's brand. The study was implemented though a descriptive survey method using a questionnaire. The sample consisted of 455 men (n=289) and women (n=166) in their twenties, residing in Seoul and Gyeonggi area. Data were analyzed by confirmatory factor analysis, correlation analysis, and path analysis of structural equation modeling. The results revealed that sports involvement has an influence on the consumers' attitudes toward sports sponsorship performed by sportswear brands. Also, the sports sponsorship attitude of consumers had an influence on the brand equity and purchase intention toward the sponsor's brand products. It was notable that the attitude toward the manner of sponsoring of the sponsor than the contents itself of the sports event sponsored had an influence more on brand loyalty. Among the component factors of brand equity, brand loyalty showed the biggest impact on purchase intention. Considering the results, in order for sports sponsorship to be more effective, sports involvement of the target market should be considered more carefully.