Abstract
Customer engagement (CE) is an emerging perspective that provides a holistic view of the ways in which customers’ interactive experiences with organizations create value for both the parties. Central to this, is the need to develop an understanding of why a customer would choose to invest their resources (cognitive, emotional, and behavioral) with an organization, to be able to better facilitate this engagement and properly value the outcomes from it. Sport, with its inherently strong interactions for both participants and fans, would seem an ideal setting to study CE. To date, however, the CE work in sport domains has largely followed established paths. Given CE’s potential to unify many disparate areas of sport research, this paper presents a comprehensive review of the CE work to date and highlights several ways sport can leverage and advance this work through both academic research and management practice.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 289-304 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Journal of Sport Management |
Volume | 36 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 20 Apr 2022 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 May 2022 |
Keywords
- conceptual model
- customer engagement
- fans
- participants
- relationships
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Decision Sciences(all)
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management