Authors
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M.A in Sport Management, kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
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Associate Professor, University Of Kharazmi, Tehran, Iran
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Assistant Professor, University Of Tarbiat Modares, Tehran, Iran
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Document Type : Research Paper
Abstract
Objective: In recent decades, sports organizations have paid special attention to the importance of considering the purchase behavior of customers. Mean while, the variables that can have an Relationship on customers' purchase behavior have been considered.
Methodology: In This study to determine the causal relationship of the Brand Equity of sports teams and Purchase behavior of Spectators. For this purpose, The Ross’s (2008) spectators based brand equity questionnaire and Kim’s (2008) spectators’ purchasing behavior questionnaire were distributed among Spectators of the national volleyball team in World League(2015) present in Azadi stadium, and by 480 spectators as Voluntarily Completed and collecte.
Results: The results of Regression analysis showed that there was a positive and significant relationship between spectators based brand equity and their purchasing behavior (p≤0.05), and brand equity A good predictor of spectators’ purchasing behavior (β= 0.108).
Conclusion: Considering the findings of this study, approaches can be provided to determine the strategies of Brand Equity and evaluate the Relationship of this strategies on purchase behavior of spectators- as the main customers of sport clubs.
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