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dc.contributor.advisorHolland, R-
dc.contributor.authorKoo, Ja Joon-
dc.date.accessioned2009-08-06T15:30:35Z-
dc.date.available2009-08-06T15:30:35Z-
dc.date.issued2009-
dc.identifier.urihttp://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/3588-
dc.descriptionThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.-
dc.description.abstractThis research recommends a new approach to brand strategy for Korean professional football teams, focusing on the relationships between team brand identity as the basic element of sports team branding, team brand loyalty as the most desirable goal, and identification between fans and teams as the mediator between identity and loyalty. Nowadays, professional football teams are no longer merely sporting organisations, but organisational brands with multi-million pound revenues. It is vital for football teams to build a relevant brand strategy based on the relationship with their fans. Existing research on sports branding suggests that fans who are deeply identified with a specific team tend to possess extremely high loyalty, holding a particular team as central to their identity. Therefore, managing the relationships between team brand identity, fan-team identification, and team brand loyalty can be the most powerful brand strategy for football teams, particularly for Korean football teams that do not retain strong fan bases and yet desire to gain consumers who identify with them. Through two empirical studies and case study analysis this research investigated a construct of team brand identity in the professional football context. Consumers’ associations with football teams were examined and 13 elements of a team brand identity scale were developed. It was revealed that team brand identity is composed of four identity dimensions which are experience, visual, non-product, and product. Case studies, with a further literature review of team brand identity, clarified and confirmed the first study findings. The final empirical study tested and confirmed the correlated and serial relationships, and provided the basis for the new theoretical model on which to build the brand strategy.en
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dc.publisherBrunel University School of Engineering and Design PhD Thesesen
dc.relation.urihttp://bura.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/2438/3588/1/FulltextThesis.pdf-
dc.subject.otherBrand identityen
dc.subject.otherVisual identityen
dc.subject.otherIdentificationen
dc.subject.otherBrand associationen
dc.subject.otherBrand loyaltyen
dc.titleBrand management strategy for Korean professional football teams: A model for understanding the relationships between team brand identity, fans’ identification with football teams, and team brand loyaltyen
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