Entrepreneurial growth in elite team sport SME’s in Finland

Ahonen, Aila

doi:10.1108/jepp-03-2019-102

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“…Therefore, from a sport entrepreneurship focus point of view, the study agrees with the network aspect of sport entrepreneurship. This research complements research by Ahonen (2019) who found that sport entrepreneurship is dependent on a favourable operating environment and on policy-makers’ capability but extends it to reveal the impact of family roles.…”

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confidence: 66%

Family business and sport entrepreneurship

Ratten

2020

JFBM

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PurposeMany sport enterprises involve family members either as owners, employees or supporters, depending on the circumstances. Despite the embedded way families define and help to build sport enterprises, there is a lack of linkage in the academic literature between family business and sport entrepreneurship. The aim of this article is to understand the linkage in more detail by focusing on the way sport, family and entrepreneurship are embedded in society.Design/methodology/approachDue to the exploratory nature of the study, a qualitative approach was undertaken to understand the feelings and perceptions surrounding the process of sport entrepreneurship in family businesses.FindingsThe findings suggest that family businesses view the process of sport entrepreneurship as being context-dependent that relies on the interaction of family members for its success. This means that networking and co-creation are part of this process.Research limitations/implicationsAs the role of families in sport enterprises becomes more acknowledged, it is important that research keeps up-to-date with this trend. Thus, the findings of this article will help more family businesses with their sport-related ventures.Originality/valueThis article is the first to explicitly examine the linkage between family entrepreneurship and sport entrepreneurship, thereby paving the way for more research to examine this interesting research area.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 66%

Family business and sport entrepreneurship

Ratten

2020

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“…Besides, the concepts developed around international entrepreneurship emphasises the dynamism, recognition of opportunities, and value creation of business across international borders (Baier-Fuentes et al, 2019;Crespo and Aurélio, 2020); elements that are notably present in the international expansion of the team-sport leagues. Furthermore, some authors highlight that we find certain peculiarities in sport that are similar to entrepreneurship (Ahonen, 2019;Ratten and Tajeddini, 2019).…”

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confidence: 62%

Global hierarchy of team-sport leagues based on internet searches and revenues: Europe vs. America

Aguiar-Noury¹,

García-del-Barrio²

2021

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This paper contributes to the understanding of the modern sports industry in an international context. Two alternative approaches are adopted for establishing the hierarchy of team-sport leagues globally and for researching to what extent professional European football might have gained dominance relative to the major North American sports leagues. We first study the evolving economic situation of the main European and American sport leagues, in terms of both total revenues and broadcasting revenues. Then, we adopt an approach based on "Google Trends" records to rank team-sport leagues according to the relative interest shown by the fans. We interpret the evolution over time as changes in the degree of support given to the Top-10 professional sports leagues worldwide. Finally, we estimate pooled OLS and GLS random effects models to examine the empirical relationship between leagues' revenues and internet searches to understand the prospects of the leagues concerning their popularity and potential revenues.

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“…The main differentiating characteristics that have been brought up in the previous study as having implications for a sports equipment firm's internal management processes are winning performance (defeating opponent and winning trophies) and social value (Ahonen, 2019). Beech and Chadwick (2013) pointed out that sports equipment business has a battle in two areas: on the sport and in business.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…The thought that the sports equipment business is unique from other manufacturing businesses is shown in the dissimilarity of forms by numerous scholars in previous studies. Especially, sports equipment firms are unique and different from other types of firms which various studies do so in more precise ways (Ahonen, 2019;Beech & Chadwick, 2013;Hoye, Nicholson, & Smith, 2008;Mangan, 2000;Slack, 1996).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In business, sports equipment firm has general purposes as other business forms which aim for profitability, wining more market share and building their brand. However, in sport side, the purpose could be increasing utility maximization which relevant to their winning performance of the team or player (Ahonen, 2019;Beech & Chadwick, 2013). Richelieu and Desbordes (2013) also supported this notion that the success of the team you partner with is the potential success factor of sport equipment firm.…”

Section: Special Characteristic Of Sports Equipment Firmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The internationlization of sport industry: a study of Thailand sport equipment firms

Bumrungpanictarworn¹

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Entering international markets is one of many key strategies to ensure high and sustainable growth of the firm. It refers to how firms want to do business activities and their engagement in foreign markets. Many studies on the international market have been focused on entry mode strategies which is one of the most critical decisions in a firm’s internationalization strategy. This research aimed to examine which factors influenced the entry mode decisions to enter foreign markets for sports equipment firms. A qualitative approach and multiple case study technique were used in this research. Important theories related to entry mode, such as, resource-based theory, transaction cost theory, institutional theory, and special characteristics of sports, were integrated to identify which factors influenced a sports equipment firm’s entry mode choice. From the literature review, many factors had been identified to influence entry mode choice. However, in this research, eight factors were identified from the theoretical perspectives and special characteristics of sport which are asset specificity, brand equity, international experience, cultural difference, market attractiveness, environmental uncertainty, legal environment and winning performance. Propositions were developed to use as a connection between the theories and the exploration of sports equipment firm’s entry mode decisions. Four case studies of Thailand sports equipment firms were used to demonstrate and discuss the applicability of the developed propositions and theoretical perspectives. The findings showed that asset specificity, brand equity and legal environment were found not to have any relationship with entry mode choice in sports equipment firms. High international experience and market attractiveness were found to play a key role and influenced firms to select higher control entry mode. Culture differences were found to have a small influence on entry mode choice while high environment uncertainty appeared to slow down the process of internationalization, but it did not influence sports equipment firms to change the initial entry mode level. Winning performance influenced the firm to gain more control and established the distributor in the market. Moreover, this research gives an insight into the internationalization of sports equipment firms with a beneficial source of data for those sport equipment firms considering the choice of market entry mode to enter the foreign markets.

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Entrepreneurial growth in elite team sport SME’s in Finland

Cited by 8 publications

References 52 publications

Family business and sport entrepreneurship

Family business and sport entrepreneurship

Global hierarchy of team-sport leagues based on internet searches and revenues: Europe vs. America

The internationlization of sport industry: a study of Thailand sport equipment firms

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