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This chapter examines the shifting significance of data ownership and athlete rights as they pertain to the growth and expansion of the global sports gambling industry. It…
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This chapter examines the shifting significance of data ownership and athlete rights as they pertain to the growth and expansion of the global sports gambling industry. It provides a nuanced overview of the ‘datafication’ of society, tracing how the omnipresent embrace of digital technologies has expediated new forms of organisational, political and corporate surveillance from which concerns over privacy, rights to ownership and the misuse of personal data arise. The chapter moves on to discuss how the extraction and trade of data has revolutionised how elite sport is performed, manufactured, broadcast and consumed, shedding critical light on the role of the gambling industry in the exchange of human data as a market commodity. These insights inform a series of socio-legal and ethical questions about the relationships between athlete data and the sports gambling industry for the purpose of signposting emerging issues and opportunities for critical sociological research and intervention.
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Margaret A. Johnston and Luc R. Bourgeois
The purpose of this paper is to examine perceptual and behavioural components of the third-person effect for sport sponsorship marketing communications by legalised gambling…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine perceptual and behavioural components of the third-person effect for sport sponsorship marketing communications by legalised gambling companies. Specifically, this research examines judgements about the perceived influence of gambling sponsorship on self, children, and other adults. It also investigates behavioural reactions towards the censorship of gambling sponsorship, and intentions to gamble with sponsors.
Design/methodology/approach
An online survey was fielded to a commercial consumer database and yielded 511 usable responses. Four hypotheses were tested to examine perceptions of the effects of gambling sponsorship on self and on others, and whether perceived differences in self/other effects influenced pro-censorship behaviours and gambling intentions.
Findings
Findings reveal a range of responses to sport sponsorship by gambling companies. Some individuals view gambling sponsorship positively, they are anti-censorship, and happy to bet with sponsors. Others, who bet on sports, but have no particular allegiance to gambling sponsors, appear highly protective of children, and endorse censorship.
Research limitations/implications
This study focused on the perceived impact of gambling sponsorship on other adults and on children. Future research may consider targeting more specific groups such as other sports fans, others engaged in online sports betting, or primary/secondary school age children.
Originality/value
This study provides new insights on sponsorship effects, specifically public perceptions of gambling sponsorship advertising and their associated behavioural consequences.
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This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/EUM0000000001683. When citing the…
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This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/EUM0000000001683. When citing the article, please cite: Paul R. Gamble, (1991), “IT Connectivity and Pan-European Hospitality Marketing”, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, Vol. 3 Iss: 4.
Paul Gamble, Roger Gentry and Michael Kipps
Recognising a problem of calculation. Anyone who has had to analyse a diet using the data from food composition tables, will know that by far the most time in the project was…
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Recognising a problem of calculation. Anyone who has had to analyse a diet using the data from food composition tables, will know that by far the most time in the project was spent on tedious arithmetic, rather than the principles of nutrition or dietetics. Such analyses form a necessary part of many student courses at colleges and universities involving a serious study of food and its consumption by human beings. In the authors' experience such subject areas as: home economics, hotel, catering and institutional management, nutrition, dietetics and food science may all require an analytical evaluation of foods, menus or diets in relation to those who may consume them. It is therefore possible that workers in all these fields would find the use of a computer in such analyses an invaluable tool.
Much of the focus on information technology has been on thetechnology rather than the information. Developments in computing andcommunication systems have sharply accelerated the…
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Much of the focus on information technology has been on the technology rather than the information. Developments in computing and communication systems have sharply accelerated the trend towards highly connected networks of organisations, each of which contributes to the total provision of goods or services to the consumer. Travel and hospitality products are almost archetypal examples of this type of structure. Hospitality managers must develop the technical skills that will enable them to envisage different forms of organisation structure and to devise new marketing strategies to exploit it.
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Discusses the idea that the potential for change which machinesrepresent for organizations allows people to change themselves –with reference to a recent MIT study emphasizing…
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Discusses the idea that the potential for change which machines represent for organizations allows people to change themselves – with reference to a recent MIT study emphasizing that managers rather than technology must be the agent of change. Reviews in brief possible IT advances. Outlines a strategy for pan‐European and international marketing transformed by these advances.
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Delayed initiatives in respect of information technology do notseem to have resulted in major gains for the hospitality industry. Onthe contrary, there are many symptoms of a lack…
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Delayed initiatives in respect of information technology do not seem to have resulted in major gains for the hospitality industry. On the contrary, there are many symptoms of a lack of firm direction. A strategic approach to IT offers the advantages of planning and consistency. It is necessary if companies are to manage their approach to IT effectively over the next decade. As the significant changes in the operating environment of the 1990s begin to make themselves evident, hospitality companies may well come to recognise an IT strategy as a key component of continued successful growth.
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This paper discusses information technology (IT) assessment and adoption in small firms. More specifically, it evaluates different approaches to IT assessment and adoption…
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This paper discusses information technology (IT) assessment and adoption in small firms. More specifically, it evaluates different approaches to IT assessment and adoption undertaken in professional SMEs, focusing on four professions: architecture; dentistry; law; and veterinary science. Adoption variables examined include: IT planning; choice of IT implementation strategy; the employment of external support; and investment in IT training. The study draws on survey data from over 260 firms in order to evaluate which approaches to IT assessment and adoption add most value in terms of the impact of IT upon the organisation. The research also identifies barriers to effective IT assessment and acquisition, and how these might be overcome.
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Paul R. Gamble and Sally Messenger
Management education, training and development is a key issue forthe British economy which has, by international standards, anundereducated, underqualified and undertrained…
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Management education, training and development is a key issue for the British economy which has, by international standards, an undereducated, underqualified and undertrained workforce. However, the varied nature of managerial work reduces the value of prescriptive approaches to management education. The Hotel, Catering and Institutional Management Association (HCIMA) recently redesigned its professional qualifications to try to meet the complex needs of the hospitality industry more closely. In general its proposals have been well received but it is clear that as elsewhere, hospitality managers need to take a more positive stance towards personal development and education if they are to cope with the 1990s as effectively as their European counterparts seem ready to do.
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