• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.498-510
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• 2002

This study has the following two focuses to analyze the changes in national-level locational pattern of the U.S. professional sports franchises during 1950-2001. The first is to empirically clarify spatial orientation in the changing locational pattern of sports franchises. The second is to identify compared characteristics of the relocation cases reflecting the orientation to other cases, for the variables indicative of franchises' and leagues' pursuits of their relocation-related interests ultimately affecting franchises' relocations, by employing a legit model. As a result of the analyses, sports franchises and leagues, respectively have shown spatial orientation toward relocating to and toward locating new franchises in southern and western areas, responding to the changes in U.S. urbanization pattern. And, relocation cases reflecting the orientation have displayed a feature of the higher annual population growth rate in destination urban area than in origin area, in comparison to other cases.

• The Korean Journal of Franchise Management
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.69-79
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• 2014

This study was carried out to demonstrate how realistic any action that causes the selection criteria for new members to join the decisions of the general public about the growing recreational sport of golf to the present day. Looking at the results of in-depth interviews, "time out through direct participation "" become more and more expensive equipment "," varied program "," located near "," are items of personal development and interpersonal relationships "was found to have a significant impact on the public choice of leisure sports. It was with the greatest response in the dual to "become more and more expensive equipment," "self-development and personal relationships." These results exigent there in living the contemporary social phenomena that can not ignore the economic aspects of choosing a leisure sport and personal development and interpersonal relationships in organizations improve social promotion and sales, a key role in providing opportunities for upward mobility suggests that the passage is.