Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the structural relationship among professional baseball team ethics management, team reputation, team identification, parent company identification, parent company image, and parent company trust. The subjects were spectators of 10 teasm participating in the 2017 KBO league. The sampling was conducted using the objective sampling method, and a total of 1,000 samples were collected from each group. Of the questionnaires, 956 were used in the aanlysis except for 44 questions. The model and hypothesis test were conducted through AMOS 20.0. The analysis results are as follows. First, the professional baseball team’s ethics management had a positive impacot n the club’s reputation. Second, the professional baseball team’s reputation had been positive in identifiyng the club. Third, the identification of the team of the professional baseball team had a positive effect on the identification of the parent company. Fourth, the parent company identification of the professional baseball team had a positive effect on the parent company image. Fifth, the identification of the parent company’s paren tcompany had a positive impact on the parent company’s trust. Sixth, the parent company image of professional baseball team had a positive effect on parent company trust. These results show that the ethics management of the professional baseball team leads the team identification through the team reputation and affects the image of the parent company and the trust o f the parent company through the team identification. Accordingly, the ethical management strategy should be strengthened so that the image of the parent company and the utrst of the professional baseball team can be improved.

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