“…However, so far scholarly research has not systematically studied the phenomenon of professional sports teams' use of and representation on the Web. Although a few studies assess professional sports teams' appearance on the Web from a marketing perspective (Brown, 2003;Carlson, Rosenberger, & Muthaly, 2003;Evans & Smith, 2004;Filo & Funk, 2005), we found ourselves unable to identify any empirical study, which employs an information management 3 perspective (Detlor, 2010) as an important part of the overall information perspective (Case, 2002;Macdonald, 1995) on this phenomenon. In contrast to other managerial perspectives, the information management perspective focuses on both information and information technology from a functionality, content, and service and information-provision perspective with special regard to human actors' needs and information behavior 4 (Taylor, 1986).…”