• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.295-302
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to empirically examine how the perception of CSR of domestic professional baseball clubs was related to the reputation of clubs, identification of clubs, and parent company image. For the research, a survey was conducted by 277 fans of LG Twins, Doosan Bears, SK Wyverns, and KT Wiz in the metropolitan area. First, the reputation of the club had a positive impact on club reputation. Second, CSR of professional baseball clubs had a positive impact on club identification. Third, the reputation of the club had a positive impact on the image of the professional baseball team. Fourth, the identification of clubs had a positive effect on the image of the professional baseball team's mother-company.

• Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.99-122
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• 2005

This study intends to divide consumer's psychological attachment of pro-sport into the identification of attitudinal dimension and the identification of behavioral dimension. And then intends to examine the relationship effect between motivation variables associated with pro-sport team(concern with the team's ranking, ability of players, attraction of players) and inspection intention, sponsorship effect(sponsor brand attitude). Almost all previous studies measured such relationship at the fragmented level, then there were no previous studies on the complicated relationship between sport team and sponsorship. Because of mentioned facts, this study used structure equation model to verify such relationship. Briefly, verifying hypothesis is as follows. First, almost all motivations related to the team are connected behavioral identification through attitudinal identification. Second, when examining the relationship between psychological attachment and inspection intention, sponsorship brand attitude, psychological attachment had positive effect on inspection intention and sponsor brand attitude in the case of attitudinal identification, but it had positive effect on only inspection intention in the case of behavioral identification. Findings and corresponding implications are discussed & future research directions.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.99-110
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• 2016

This study examined the factors affecting the team identification of professional baseball fans. The factors were divided into the fan factor, game factors, and other factors. For the analysis, two investigators visited stadium three times in total and a total number of 297 spectators were sampled using a convenience sampling method from three baseball teams. For the fan factor, a fan who began supporting his/her team from childhood or after childhood was used as a dummy variable. The interaction effects between the fan factor and other variables were investigated to offer a stereoscopic understanding about the role of kids marketing. In addition, three game factors and four non-game factors were analyzed. The results regarding fan variable and interaction effects were obtained. Fans from their childhood have much stronger team identification, and show interaction effects with the players. Regression analysis revealed player, promotion and fan service, price, and regional connection to have positive relations with team identification. This study is especially meaningful in a sense that it has proposed positive results regarding marketing to children, and the results will contribute to both the academic field and the industry.