The sport cluster concept as middle-range theory for the sport value framework

Gerke, Anna; Woratschek, Herbert; Dickson, Geoff

doi:10.1016/j.smr.2018.12.004

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“…Consequently, this study uses the same data as utilised by Gerke et al (2020). While Gerke et al (2019) demonstrate how the sport cluster concept can serve as a middle-range theory to bridge empirical findings and general theory such as the sport value framework.…”

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How is value co-created in a sport business-to-business context?

Gerke

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Dickson

2020

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PurposeThere are different streams of research in the service marketing literature concerning value co-creation. Most of the research focuses on value co-creation for the benefit of the customer. However, value is also co-created for the benefit of the provider, especially in a business-to-business context. The purpose of this research is to understand (1) how value is co-created in a sport business-to-business context (i.e. sailing) and (2) how the prevailing value co-creation approaches explain value co-creation processes differently in a sport business-to-business context.Design/methodology/approachThe research was contextualised within the Auckland sailing cluster. Primary data were collected via 27 interviews, as well as observations at events. Secondary data include 13 documents of organisational information and archival data. Data were analysed deductively and interpreted using two different theoretical lenses: service-dominant logic (SDL) and service logic (SL).FindingsThe value co-creation analysis of the sailing cluster permitted theorising about relationships in sport management at different levels of aggregation and abstraction. Every actor is embedded in a wider sport eco-system triggered by sport activities and always has a dual role as provider and beneficiary. Actors that are in control of specific sport activities are pivotal actors and provide a value network for others.Research limitations/implicationsThis research suggests that SDL and SL approaches to value co-creation are complementary and that further research is necessary to integrate and operationalise these approaches.Practical implicationsIt helps practitioners to better understand how value is co-created in sport business-to-business contexts.Originality/valueThis research shows the complementarity of two differing theoretical approaches to explain value co-creation in sport business-to-business settings.

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How is value co-created in a sport business-to-business context?

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Dickson

2020

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“…<Figure 1: Logic model for charity run> As for the theoretical implications, this study successfully broadened the literature to include event organizers and beneficial organizations as stakeholders to better comprehend the theory of value co-creation in sports. The SVF is a general theory with a high level of abstraction (Gerke et al, 2020), and there are few studies that link to empirical data. SVF, which indicates, "Co-created value is always value-in-context" (FP9), requires researchers to have a localized perspective to fully understand its background.…”

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“…This work and the creation of a logic model was completed by the first author, whose subjectivity was strongly reflected. In future research, it will be necessary to collect organizational information and archival data (Gerke et al, 2020) and analyze it with more than one person. There is no template for creating a logic model (Carrol and McKenna, 2001) and several different Advance Publication by J-STAGE Published online February 26, 2021 LOCAL PROBLEM-FOCUSED CHARITY SPORT EVENT versions exist (Knowlton and Phillips, 2012).…”

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Research on Local Problem-focused Charity Sport Event: Multi-stakeholder Perspective and Social Impact Logic Model

Daigo

Sakuno

2021

Int. J. Sport Health Sci.

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This study on charity sport events in Japan aimed to determine how the participants, event organizer, and beneficial organizations co-create values and make their event effective. Using the Sport Value Framework (Woratschek et al., 2014) as the theoretical framework, questionnaire and interview surveys were conducted on "Value Received" and "Value Created" from the perspective of the three abovementioned stakeholders. The results identified four concepts: "Running event opportunity (marathon participation and commemorative gift)," "Opportunity for interaction," "Motivation for contributing to society," and "Psychological benefits" for the values received by the participants, and five concepts of "Financial support," "Impression of marathon runners," "Social system supporting fundraising," "Communication opportunities," and "Connection with other organizations in the community" for the values created by the participants. These results were

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“…From the community development perspective, sport has the potential to deliver geographically driven social benefits (Coalter, 2005), which are facilitated by good community planning (Gehl, 2011). Researchers suggest that localized sport industries, which Shilbury (2000) termed sport clusters, are an interesting empirical context to analyze the sport value framework (Gerke et al, 2020).…”

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“…When sport clusters are empirically analyzed, the sport value framework distinguishes between three levels of sport clusters: the intra-, micro-, and meso-level (Gerke et al, 2020). The intra-level analysis considers the cluster organizations; the micro-level includes relationships between cluster organizations; and the meso-level refers to the network of all organizations within a cluster.…”

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Sport Clusters and Community Resilience in the United States

Kim

Jang

2021

Journal of Sport Management

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How to enhance community resilience to natural disasters is a major question for researchers and policymakers. Although researchers agree that sport generates community benefits, few scholarly efforts in sport management have been invested in understanding the sport–resilience association. This paper attempted to address whether and how sport clusters—the clustering of sport industries—are associated with community resilience across locations. To achieve this, geographically weighted regression and visualization techniques were applied to macro-level data regarding community resilience and the clustering of 13 separate sport industries across 3,108 counties in the contiguous United States. The results indicate that, overall, the clustering of eight sport industries was significantly associated with community resilience and demonstrates the existence of spatially heterogeneous associations in magnitudes and signs of community resilience in sport clusters. The findings of this paper have the potential to help community sport scholars and policymakers implement location-specific resilience policies through sport industry development.

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The sport cluster concept as middle-range theory for the sport value framework

Cited by 33 publications

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How is value co-created in a sport business-to-business context?

How is value co-created in a sport business-to-business context?

Research on Local Problem-focused Charity Sport Event: Multi-stakeholder Perspective and Social Impact Logic Model

Sport Clusters and Community Resilience in the United States

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