Examining the antecedents of sport team brand equity: A dual-identification perspective

Michael Chih-Hung Wang and Ya-Yun Tang

Sport Management Review, 2018, vol. 21, issue 3, 293-306

Abstract: •Investigate the antecedents of sport team brand equity.•Sport marketplace factors positively influenced identification with the sport team.•Brand identity-related factors positively influenced identification with the sport team brand.•Identification with the sport team positively influenced sport team brand equity.•Identification with the sport team brand positively influenced sport team brand equity.Although the practice of building brand equity in the context of professional sport teams is popular, the formation of sport team brand equity in the sport marketing literature is still relatively unknown and incompletely understood. In this study, the authors propose a dual-identification model to examine the formation of sport team brand equity in an Asia-based professional team sport setting. Baseball fans (N = 548) of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) in Taiwan participated in the self-administered survey. A Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Model analysis revealed that marketplace characteristics (including group experience, salient experience, team history, and fan rituals) and brand-identified-related factors (including self-congruity and team brand prestige) were significantly related to identification with sport team and identification with sport team brand, respectively. In turn, both identification with sport team and identification with sport team brand were significant predictors of sport team brand equity. These findings highlight the importance of studying a dual-identification model in order to understand how sport team brand equity forms and suggest implications for sport team managers.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.smr.2017.07.010

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