Sport Consumer Behaviour

Daniel C. Funk is a Professor and Washburn Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Sport and Recreation Management within the School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management at Temple University, USA. His research examines sport consumer experience through the investigation of internal and external factors that shape attitudes and behaviour in related industry sectors. He has been recognized as a Research Fellow for the Sport Marketing Association and the North American Society for Sport Management. Dr Funk has published articles and chapters in a variety of academic journals and textbooks and served as Editor for Sport Marketing Quarterly. Kostas Alexandris is an Associate Professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He earned his PhD from the University of Manchester, UK. He was previously a faculty member of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr Alexandris has published more than 60 research articles in international academic journals and several book chapters on topics related to sport, leisure, tourism consumer behaviour and marketing. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Leisure Research and serves on the Editorial Boards of Sport Management Review, the Journal of Service Theory and Practice, Sport Marketing Quarterly, Managing Sport and Leisure and International Journal of Sport Management. He is also the editor of the book Performance Measurement and Leisure Management, published by Routledge. Heath McDonald is Professor of Marketing and the Associate Dean in the Faculty of Business and Law at Swinburne University, Australia. He is an expert in the field of customer acquisition and retention, particularly in subscription markets. His academic research work has been published in journals in the fields of Marketing, Sport Management and Hospitality. Dr McDonald also sits on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Sport Management, Sport Management Review, Sport Marketing Quarterly and Sport, Business and Management.

Part I: Introduction and Consumer Segmentation Chapter 1. Introduction to Sport Consumer Behaviour and Decision Making Chapter 2. Sport Consumer Segmentation Part II: Inputs: External Forces and Branding Chapter 3. The Sport Product and the Sport Consumer Chapter 4. Sport Consumer Behaviour and the Influence of the Socio-Cultural Environment Part III: Processes: Internal Psychological Components Chapter 5. Sport Consumer Motivation Chapter 6. Constraints in Sport Engagement Chapter 7. Sport Consumer Attitudes Chapter 8. Personality and Sport Consumer Behaviour Part IV: Outputs: Sport Consumer Connections and Satisfaction Chapter 9. The Psychological Continuum Model Chapter 10. Stages of the Psychological Continuum Model Chapter 11. Sport Involvement Chapter 12. Team Identification Chapter 13. Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction Part V: An Alternative Perspective on Sport Consumer Behaviour Chapter 14. Sport Consumption and Marketing Empirical Generalizations Part VI: Case Studies Case Study 1. Case Study 2. Case Study 3. Case Study 4. Case Study 5. Case Study 6. Part VII: Topics of Interest for Sport Marketing Topics of Interest for Sport Marketers