Sport sponsorship decision making: descriptive analysis of the decision process and selection criteria of sponsor companies in Brazil / Tomada de decisão em ações de patrocínio esportivo: análise descritiva do processo decisório e critérios de seleção em empresas patrocinadoras no Brasil

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

The growth of the use of sports sponsorship by companies as a marketing communication tool is notorious. This growth has raised the interest for a better and higher understanding of this tool?s attributes, especially concerning its efficacy and the processes by which it is adopted and promoted by organizations. The main purpose of this research was to study the decision making process and the selection criteria adopted by companies during the occasion of a sports sponsorship activity. The main contributions of this study lay on the attempt to promote a reflection about a more strategic and efficacious use of sports sponsorship activities ? raising its credibility while a marketing communication tool ? and to allow an adjustment between the offer of sports projects to potential sponsors and the profile of this companies. The development of the study had the sponsorship concepts and its contextualization on marketing activities as its theoretical base, including concepts related to the marketing mix, the marketing communication mix, and sponsorship kinds, efficacy and objectives. The method used for the execution of the field research was the field study, through a conclusive descriptive research applied among a non-randomized sample of 59 national and international companies acting in Brazil that adopt sports sponsorship among its marketing communication activities. The data was obtained through the application of an electronic questionnaire composed by closed questions, and its analysis relied mainly on the descriptive and quantitative interpretation of the frequency obtained for the study variables. Crossovers between variables were also promoted to verify any relationships existing between them. As a conclusion of the study it was found that the decision making process for sports sponsorship activities at companies reveals itself incipient or inexistent, resulting as a consequence, on a decrease of efficacy during its use. Another conclusion, referring to the selection criteria adopted by companies, is that the most used are pertinence, adequacy, repercussion, and cost evaluation of the action to be sponsored. It was also verified that certain variables, such as size (in revenue) and range of the company have influence over the composition of the members that take part of the decision making process and over the selection criteria that compose this process. Based on this conclusions, this study suggests a higher attention and deepness by companies on discussions concerning the decision making process related to sports sponsorship activities.

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comunicação em marketing sports marketing esportes decision making marketing communication patrocínio sponsorship tomada de decisão sports marketing esportivo

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