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The influence of stadium environment on attendance intentions in spectator sport: the moderating role of team loyalty

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posted on 2017-11-17, 13:32 authored by Heetae Cho, H.W. Lee, Do Young PyunDo Young Pyun
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of perceived environmental quality of the stadium on fans’ future intentions to attend a game by highlighting the moderating effect of team loyalty. Design/methodology/approach: Using latent moderated structural equations modeling, this study tested the direct impacts of stadium factors on consumers’ desire to stay and revisit intentions and the moderation effects of team loyalty based on Mehrabian and Russell’s environmental psychology behavioral model. Findings: The results showed significant direct effects of team loyalty and desire to stay on revisit intentions. The stadium environment influenced desire to stay and revisit intentions only by the interactions with team loyalty. More specifically, higher loyalty led to higher desire to stay and revisit intentions, whereas fans’ positive experience of stadium environment intensified the effect. Originality/value: The authors highlight the significant role of desire to stay on revisit intentions by incorporating the cognitive-affective system of human behavior. In addition, this study provides essential information for identifying the interaction effects of environmental factors and team loyalty on consumer behavior in sport settings.

History

School

  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Published in

International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship

Citation

CHO, H., LEE, H.W. and PYUN, D.Y., 2018. The influence of stadium environment on attendance intentions in spectator sport: the moderating role of team loyalty. International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship, 20 (2), pp.276-290.

Publisher

© Emerald

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2017-11-08

Publication date

2019-05-07

Notes

This paper was published in the journal International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSMS-04-2017-0025.

ISSN

1464-6668

Language

  • en