英文摘要 |
The domestic sports events prevailed day by day and stimulated the growth of corporate sponsorship. Sports sponsorship had become the new edge tool to marketing gradually and played an important role in the sports events. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of corporate sports sponsorship on image-transfer and sponsorship outcomes(including purchase intention, word of mouth, sponsor image), and to verify the moderated mediation effect of congruence and the diluting effect of brand familiarity. We selected six-type sports events, and retrieved 638 questionnaires. By adopting CFA, SEM, multi-groups analysis and bootstrap examined model stability and validation generalization. Meanwhile, the results of the study were summarized as follow: (1)Corporate sponsorship had significant positive effects both on image transfer and sponsorship performance. (2)Image transfer had partial mediating effect between corporate sponsorship and sponsorship performance. (3)Congruence had moderated mediation effect among corporate sponsorship、image transfer and sponsorship performance. (4)Brand Familiarity diluted the mediating effect of image transfer. By the way, we also provided practical suggestions and future research directions. |