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dc.contributor.authorStorm, Rasmus K.
dc.contributor.authorHolum, Marthe Liss
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-25T07:48:48Z
dc.date.available2020-08-25T07:48:48Z
dc.date.created2020-03-02T16:13:06Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.issn1618-4742
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2673783
dc.description.abstractThe body of literature examining potential trickle-down effects from elite sport success to mass sport participation has grown considerably over the years. The evidence is mixed but generally suggests that when a nation’s athletes win medals at international tournaments – for example the Olympic Games or the FIFA World Cup – it cannot be expected to inspire amateurs to take up sport themselves. So far, existing research has primarily focused on international elite success. Effects from local elite clubs playing in national leagues have only been examined once. Since recent research indicates that national and cultural contexts can influence whether a potential trickle-down effect materialises, this paper aims to test these factors in another setting. By deploying panel data regression models on data from Danish top-tier professional soccer, we test whether local club performance affects local membership levels in Denmark. We do not find direct positive effects from sporting success. However, we do identify negative effects on membership figures due to club relegation indicating that sporting failure can affect mass participation. A key recommendation drawn from this study is that politicians, sport managers and civil servants should be careful using the double pyramid/‘virtuous circle of sport’ metaphor as the basis of their decision-making because it is an imprecise theoretical interpretation of reality. Instead, stakeholders should focus effort and resources on other relevant factors that potentially can lead to higher – or even lower – levels of participation in order to stimulate such factors (or prevent those that affects negatively). Future studies should examine these implications further.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.titleDoes Local Sporting Success Affect Sport Participation? An Examination of Danish Professional Soccer’s Effect on Club Membershipen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionacceptedVersionen_US
dc.source.journalEuropean Sport Management Quarterlyen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/16184742.2020.1739726
dc.identifier.cristin1799051
dc.description.localcodeLocked until 11.9.2021 due to copyright restrictions. This is an [Accepted Manuscript] of an article published by Taylor & Francis, available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16184742.2020.1739726en_US
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cristin.unitcode194,63,10,0
cristin.unitnameNTNU Handelshøyskolen
cristin.unitnameInstitutt for datateknologi og informatikk
cristin.ispublishedfalse
cristin.fulltextpostprint
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