Identification Of Fans Research Articles

Exploring the impact of Qatar’s soft power sponsorship in the Indian Premier League: a social identity perspective

PurposeDrawing upon the Social Identity Theory, this research aims to investigate the effectiveness of Qatar’s soft power sponsorships among the Indian Premier League (IPL) fans in India. We explore the relationship between team identification, team-sponsor fit, and purchase intention of sports fans, while also examining the moderating effect of sponsor brand awareness in the context of the IPL.Design/methodology/approachUsing a quantitative research design, we conducted both offline and online surveys from sports fans. The proposed model was examined using Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Modelling to test the study’s hypotheses.FindingsThe results reveal a positive and significant association between team identification and team-sponsor fit, and team-sponsor fit and purchase intention of sponsor brands. Further, brand awareness moderates the relationship between team-sponsor fit and purchase intention of sponsor brands, but not on the team identification and team-sponsor fit relationship.Research limitations/implicationsThis research adds to the paradigm of social identity theory and soft power sponsorship research. By providing insights into fans’ predisposition towards the team sponsors, the study will help managers design effective brand promotion strategies.Originality/valueThis research is the first to explore the effectiveness of soft-power sponsorships in the Indian mega-sports landscap. It is also the first to explore the moderating effect of sponsor brand awareness on sponsorship effectiveness, which is determined through the purchase intentions of the sponsor brand.

Land-surface quantitative analysis for mapping and deciphering the construction processes of piedmont alluvial fans in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains

Land-surface quantitative analysis based on digital elevation model (DEM) has been applied for improving the geomorphological mapping of piedmont alluvial fans. Indeed, these fans are frequently along a mountain front, where a series of coalescing fans may eventually occur. The margins of adjacent fans are rather difficult to map, thus preventing accurate and meaningful quantification of fan morphometric properties such as fan area, length, and slope. These morphometric properties are essential for informing on the influence of climatic conditions and tectonic factors on the fan-building processes. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a quantitative digital mapping approach along a stretch of about 50 km in the southern front of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains. Here, the Geomorphological Map of Syria at 1:1,000,000 scale (1963) reported at least nine piedmont alluvial fans, but these were poorly characterized in terms of geomorphometric characteristics and construction processes. Adopting the 1-arcsec SRTMv3 DEM, we propose a four-step workflow to analyse the feeding catchments morphology and fan morphometry. In this manner, the identification and geomorphological mapping of coalescent piedmont fans as well as the recognition of the main construction process have been improved. The proposed approach can support geomorphological investigations of wide and inaccessible areas—especially where arid and semi-arid climate conditions prevail—as well as where socio-political issues may prevent effective field work.

“Get out of here you anti”

Pleasure(s) of people of marginalized genders and sexualities are central to media fandom scholarship, making it suitable to analyze as an identitopia. Recently, the figure of the fandom antifan or anti, an individual deemed hostile to fan pleasure, particularly around shipping practices and fanwork production, has gained prominence in fandom discussions. The anti is seen to interrupt media fandom’s identitopia through policing and puritanism. A troubling aspect of this formulation is the consistent identification of fans who are critical of fandom’s negotiation of race/ism, as antis themselves. They are then accused of supporting censorship in the name of social justice. This is a disruption of antifandom models as these fans do not claim a negative stance themselves. This article theorizes this disruption via the fandom killjoy, drawing from in-depth fan interviews and examining related racist incidents in fandom spaces.

Fan identification in football: professional football players and clubs competing for fan loyalty

PurposeIn the age of nine-figure transfer fees and football stars building their own brands and follower base, a shift in fan identification in football appears to be taking place as athletes can build strong connections with their followers. This paper examines the level of identification shown by football fans towards both their favourite team and their favourite player, in connection with the concept of fan loyalty.Design/methodology/approachA total of 4,707 international respondents participated in an online survey to examine the relationship between fan identification and fan loyalty, and to measure the impact of variables like country, player, club, on fan identification using multi-regression analyses.FindingsThe results underline the strong presence of team identification compared to identification of single players. Results have also revealed that the relationship between a fan's favourite team and player has a significant impact on identification levels towards both actors. Fans supporting a foreign club were found to show significantly stronger team identification than those who support a club from their own country or region.Originality/valueThis research contributes to the growing body of publications in the field of sports consumer research and underlines the importance of understanding the quality of relationships and thus the identification of fans with clubs and individual players for the stakeholders involved. International sports marketing is becoming increasingly important and an understanding of fan interests is essential for effective marketing, as information on trends in fan interests enables a more tailored strategy for clubs and sponsors.

Quantitative Identification and Prediction of Layered Intrusive Masses and Sublacustrine Fans in Faulted Basins—A Case Study from the Hailar Basin, Eastern China

Quantitative Identification and Prediction of Layered Intrusive Masses and Sublacustrine Fans in Faulted Basins—A Case Study from the Hailar Basin, Eastern China

Team identification, motives, and behaviour: a comparative analysis of fans of men’s and women’s sport

ABSTRACT Purpose This research sought to examine the team identification, motives, and behaviours of fans of a women’s sport team as well as those of a men’s team to identify any differences between these two groups. Methods An online survey utilised three established scales, the Sport Spectator Identification Scale – Revised (SSIS-R), the Motivation Scale for Sports Consumption (MSSC), and the Fan Behaviour Scale. A total of 515 participants completed the survey and their responses were analysed across team affiliation and level of identification. Findings More similarities than differences were uncovered for fans of the two teams. The most highly identified fans of each team reported their strongest motives were Physical Skill and Achievement. Family was the least motivating factor for fans of the women’s team amongst every identification level and had the weakest correlation to team identification of the eight motives studied. Identification was positively correlated with greater consumption behaviours for fans of both teams. Implications & Contribution This research adds to the scant literature on fans of women’s sport and offers insights on the level of identification, motives, and behaviours of these fans, which can be used by women’s sport organisations when developing fan engagement campaigns and marketing materials.

Does team identification of satellite fans influence brand-related sponsorship outcomes? What we learned from Manchester United supporters in Malaysia

ABSTRACT The aim of the research was to explore how satellite fans identification with their favorite foreign team influences sponsorship outcomes. Manchester United and Adidas agreement was examined and a sample of 284 satellite fans from Malaysia was collected using an online survey. The findings provided evidence for the effect of team identification on sponsor-sponsee perceived fit, of perceived fit on sponsor’s products perceived brand quality (PBQ) and on word of mouth (WOM), and of PBQ on WOM. Although the direct effect between team identification with PBQ and with WOM was not significant, the results uncovered a full mediating effect of perceived fit in both relationships. The same held true for PBQ on the relationship between team identification and WOM, while PBQ exerted a partial mediating effect on the relationship of perceived fit and WOM. This study offers recommendations on how to strengthen sponsors’ return on investment on an international level.

An integrated approach for reservoirs characterization: A case study from the Barreirinhas basin in Maranhão, Brazil

Seismic attributes have made an important contribution to the interpretation of seismic data, ranging from regional mapping to reservoirs characterization. The present study describes an oil reservoir based on its seismic attributes, in an anticline formed by fold systems, related to thrust-type faults in the lower portion of the continental slope of the Barreirinhas Basin in Maranhão, Brazil. Instantaneous, geometric, and coherence attributes permit the identification of hydrocarbons, lithology, continuities/discontinuities, faults, and the depositional environment in the study basin. The use of the coherence attribute permitted the identification of characteristic deltaic fans in the shallow marine environment, which filled ample channels recognized by their instantaneous attributes, overlaid, in turn, by distributary channels observed in the geometric attributes, which were filled by successive sandy sedimentary successions that gave rise to sandstones with characteristics of good reservoirs and high velocity wave. Finally, these seismic attributes associated with the geophysical-geological seismic interpretation, permitted the identification of additional leads with promising characteristics that should be targeted in a future research.

Fan centricity of German soccer teams: exploring the construct and its consequences

ABSTRACT The goal of the present study is to conceptualize fan centricity and explore its consequences. The study focuses on German soccer teams and used in-depth interviews with 26 experts and inductive coding procedures to categorize the experts’ opinions on defining the construct and on perceived consequences. Based on the results, fan centricity is defined as an organization’s strategic and operational focus on the establishment and maintenance of relationships with fans in a reciprocal sense. Seven categories describe fan centricity: identification and segmentation of fans; fan involvement in decision-making; facilitation of extra-role behaviour; communication and mediation; optimization of fan experience; facilitation of fan influence on organizational and soccer-related changes; and adaptation of modus operandi. Two broad themes have been identified: process-related components as well as organizational and societal components. The construct has a variety of consequences (e.g. for the teams’ operating models), as revealed by the interviews.

Método geomorfométrico para mapeamento de leques aluviais

No âmbito da análise digital do relevo, este trabalho apresenta a concepção e aplicação de um método para a identificação de leques aluviais com a parametrização e combinação de atributos geomorfométricos calculados a partir de um modelo digital do terreno (MDT), cuja área de estudo compreende o estado do Paraná (Brasil). Na classificação orientada a objeto, os leques aluviais foram tratados como pontos planos localizados na interseção de segmentos lineares, definidos pela área de contribuição, que possuem grande amplitude altimétrica e de declividade. Os resultados evidenciaram que o mapeamento dos leques aluviais foi representativo em distintos contextos geomorfológicos, o que ressalta sua aplicabilidade.

Investigation on identification and loyalty features of Euro Cup basketball fans

Investigation on identification and loyalty features of Euro Cup basketball fans

A Study on determining the levels of team image, team loyalty and team identification of sports fans

Aim: This study aims to investigate the team image, team loyalty and identification levels of football fans. Methods: Within the framework of the relational screening model, the population of the study chosen by convenience sampling comprises of university students who are the fans of one of the three major soccer teams of Turkey. The sample of the study includes 207 women and 79 men as a total of 286 football supporters between the ages of 17 and 40 (20.93 ± 2.17) studying at the different faculties and high schools of a university. In this study, survey was used as data collection tool. It includes personal information form, team loyalty scale, team image scale and Identification scale of Sport Fans. Pearson Correlation Analysis was used for relationship comparisons, independent sample t-test was used for binary comparisons and one-way variance analysis for multiple comparisons was used as well as descriptive statistics. Results: When gender is taken into account, behavioral loyalty, attitudinal loyalty, sub dimensions of team identification were found to be significant in favour of men. The team image perception of Besiktas supporters is found significantly higher than Galatasaray and Fenerbahce supporters’ perception. Behavioral loyalty, attitude loyalty, team identification, and team image perceptions of supporters who watch the matches in the stadium are higher than in those who never watch. It was found that there is a significant positive correlation between the amount of spending money for football and behavioral loyalty, attitudinal loyalty and sub dimensions of team identification. There is a significant positive correlation between the frequency of attending matches annually and behavioral loyalty, attitudinal loyalty, and sub dimensions of team identification. In addition to these, a meaningful positive high and medium correlation was found between behavioral loyalty, attitudinal loyalty, team identification and team image perception. Conclusion : Finally , it can be concluded that the variables which are gender, watching the matches in the stadiuam , spending money for football and the frequency of attending the macthes have a significant effect on the level of team identification, team loyalty and team image as well as affecting each other positively.

Multi-scale mapping of cultural ecosystem services in a socio-ecological landscape: A case study of the international Wadden Sea Region

ContextThe governance of international natural World Heritage sites is extremely challenging. In the search for effective multilevel governance there is a need to identify the community of people which have place attachment to the areas, i.e. ‘the community of fans’ at local to international levels.ObjectivesFocusing on the landscape of the international Wadden Sea coastal area in the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark as a case study, we address three key questions: What is the spatial distribution of the community of fans? How does the size of this community relate to the overlapping communities of locals and actual visitors to the Wadden Sea coastal area? Which parts of the Wadden Sea coastal area are most appreciated by the community of fans, and how does this relate to its formal protection status?MethodsWe analysed 7650 respondents’ answers to a tri-lateral web survey (the standardized Greenmapper survey) conducted in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.ResultsWe estimated that 14 million German, Dutch and Danish citizens can be regarded as the potential—national level—community of fans. The correlation between place or landscape attachment and distance was varied among the three countries. Furthermore, only 37% of the markers placed by fans of the Wadden Sea coastal area are within the protected UNESCO World Heritage limits, suggesting that a broader demarcation could be possible.ConclusionsWe discuss how the identification of fans can potentially contribute to more effective public involvement in the governance of valuable landscapes.

An Examination of Motivation and Identification of Football Fans

This study examined the fans motivation to attend the National Football League (NFL) games and how it relates to fan identification. Data from 158 fans who attended regular season games in a Midwestern city in the United States were analyzed using regression to determine the degree to which fan identification could be explained by motivation factors. It was found that self-esteem, entertainment, escape, and eustress explained 40.1% of the variance in fan identification. Understanding that fans have different levels of identification and different types of motivations will enable sport marketers can better tailor strategies to more effectively reach target markets.

GEOBIA-based identification of alluvial fans and bajadas through geomorphometry, image analysis and fuzzy ontology

ABSTRACTAlluvial fan and bajada mapping is important for practical and economic importance to society. In this study, advanced geomorphometric, image processing and knowledge representation methods were investigated, enhanced and developed, towards the simultaneous identification of alluvial fans and bajadas. The developed method was based on the landform-pattern element approach. Data used included the 10 m spatial resolution National Elevation Dataset, provided by USGS and a pan-sharpened 15 m Landsat OLi imagery. The study area was located in the Death Valley, Nevada, USA. Digital Terrain Model (DTM) processing included noise-removal filtering and depression treatment. A two-phase GEographic Object-Based Image Analysis approach involving multi-scale segmentation and fuzzy ontology-based reasoning was designed. On the first phase, topographic forms were identified, by examining their morphometry and spatial relationships. On the second phase, the alluvial fans and bajadas were identified based on drainage pattern texture and topographic features such as landform shape. Due to a systematic omission on the fan toe outline, each fan and bajada spectral signature was taken into account to determine the omitted areas through region growing on the multispectral imagery. Accuracy assessment indicated satisfactory results, since a 90.3% completeness and 88.8% quality were achieved for both alluvial fans and bajadas.

Fans’ identification with teams: A field study of Israeli soccer fans

AbstractThe goal of this study was to examine variables related to the identification of fans with their soccer team. Spectator motivations and psychological variables were examined in addition to control variables. The sample consisted of 350 soccer fans of a successful soccer team in the Israeli first division. The survey was conducted immediately before the team’s home game with the permission and support of the team’s owner, who requested (commissioned?) the study and was involved in the development of the research model. The results of a regression analysis show a strong positive relationship between commitment to the community and team identification. Of the motivation variables, eustress and aesthetics were found to have a positive and significant relationship with fans’ identification with the team. Level of happiness was also found to be related to team identification. The findings are discussed in terms of the need for more field studies such as the present study to compare the results with thos...

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This study aims to comprehensively analyze factors affecting team identification of professional basseball fans in Korea. Variables have been divided into two domains; game factors including Player(X1) and Team performance(X2), and SNS factors including Informativeness(X3), Timeliness(X4), Reliability(X5), Interaction between users(X6) and Amusement(X7), Also, interaction effects between game factors and SNS factors have been investigated for the stereoscopic understanding of SNS-related consumer behavior. For the sample, 7 investigators visited stadium for two games and the total number of 196 spectators was sampled by convenience sampling method. According to the results of regression analyses, X1, X2, X3, and X7 proved to have positive relations with team identification. The interaction effects between X1 and X7, and X2 and X5 have been identified. Hypotheses related X4, X5, X6, however, did not confirmed. Even though several hypotheses have not been supported, this study will contribute to related studies and provide meaningful implications for managers in the field at the same time, since it has attempted to figure out not only direct effects but moderating effects of SNS factors.

A sedimentary model for early Palaeozoic fluvial fans, Alderney Sandstone Formation (Channel Islands, UK)

Fluvial fans in the rock record are inferred based on critical criteria such as: downstream grain-size fining; evidence for drainage fractionation along bifurcating channels; increasing fluvial-aeolian interaction in the basinward direction; and radial palaeoflow dispersion. Since pre-vegetation fluvial rocks often lack heterolithic alluvium and channelisation at the outcrop scale, the recognition of pre-Silurian fluvial fans has, so far, not been straightforward. This research proposes a sedimentary model for the Alderney Sandstone Formation of Channel Islands (UK), so far considered as a fine record of early Palaeozoic axial-fluvial sedimentation. Here, outcrop-based and remote-sensing analysis of the formation's type-section reveal the interaction of fluvial and aeolian processes, expressed by the alternation of: compound fluvial bars enclosing macroform surfaces, related to phases of perennial discharge; fluvial sandsheets containing antidunal forms and soft-sediment deformations, related to seasonal (i.e. flashy) discharge; and aeolian bedforms overlying thin stream-flow deposits.An up-section increase in aeolian deposits is accompanied by the shrinking of fluvial bars and minor-channel cuts, suggesting that drainage was fractioned along smaller channels terminating into marginal aeolian environments. Together with a propensity towards more dispersed values of fluvial cross-set thickness up-section (again due to discharge fractionation along intermittently active channels), these features depict an aeolian-influenced fluvial fan. This work discusses a set of criteria for the identification of fluvial fans in pre-vegetation environments. In doing so, it also explores possible parallels to modern environments, and underscores the potential of integrated outcrop and remotely sensed observations on ancient fluvial rocks and modern sedimentary realms.

English

Sport and physical education can play an important role on the development of moral behavior. However, there has been a surge in unethical conducts both in and out of sports fields in recent years. Conducts such as match fixing and incentive payment which fall into the realm of corruption are unacceptable by some fans. For some others, these are deemed as acceptable. Tenacity to win at the expense of anything cripples fair-play principle. This study aims at exploring whether identification of fans with their sports teams has an impact on their attitude to match fixing and incentive payment. The outcomes of the study reveal that fans with high identification are less likely to accept that their teams arrange some match fixing and/or incentive payment and they do not want their teams to be subject to any penalties. Moreover, fans with high moral disengagement are of the opinion that their teams do not get involved in any match fixing and incentive payment. The higher the level of identification gets, the higher moral disengagement becomes. Key words: Fans, moral education, team identification, match fixing, incentive payment.

Morphodynamics and facies architecture of streamflow-dominated, sand-rich alluvial fans, Pleistocene Upper Valdarno Basin, Italy

Abstract The overwhelming documentation of coarse-grained alluvial fans dominated by mass flow contrasts with the scarce accounts of finer grained, traction-dominated alluvial fans. To fill this gap, we present sedimentological and architectural data from a set of sand-rich, streamflow-dominated Pleistocene fans flanking the eastern Upper Valdarno Basin, Italy. The routing of sand-rich sediment resulted from the fast, intense weathering of the feldspar-rich, carbonate-deprived sandstone bedrock underlying the fan catchments. Although capable of entraining large boulders, high water discharge sustained tractional reworking along the proximal facies belts, hindering mass flow. The medial facies belts have a channelized, braided planform and are dominated by processes hardly distinguishable from those characterizing fluvial environments. Along the distal facies belts, extensive overbank tracts are composed of terminal splays and crevasse lobes, the spatial arrangement of which controlled the evolution of through-going tributary channels connected to the axial basin drainage. This study focused on the sedimentary processes, stratal architecture and morphodynamics of the alluvial fans and considered the effect of bedrock inheritance on their development. The results underline how granulometry and mass flow dominance are not distinctive of alluvial fan sedimentation per se and indicate how the critical detection of piedmont, radial palaeomorphology is crucial in the identification of ancient alluvial fans.