Abstract:
The research of the causal relationship model of network cooperation factors affecting sports organizational sponsorship includes objectives to study: (1) the levels of corporate executives opinion on causes related to society, corporate social caring, sports marketing sponsorship, corporate brand supporting sponsorship, and network cooperation in sports of corporate sponsorship; and (2) the model of the causal relationship of sports network cooperation factors affecting sports network organization sponsorship.
The research tool was a questionnaire collected from 567 sponsorship companies for sports registered on The Stock Exchange in Thailand. This research analyzed the statistical data in SPSS software version 16.0 and AMOS version 6.0. The statistical values of frequency distribution, percentage, arithmetic mean, and standard deviation employed calculation techniques for analyzing Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) in the research conclusion.
The research results found that the sports network organization sponsorship samples had marketed on overall related social marketing at a medium level (x̄ =3.25) and overall social caring was at a high level (x̄ =3.58). Mostly, social caring was at a high level in issues of consumers, environment, organizational governance, and consumer rights protection, and social caring was at a medium level in social caring activities. The samples of network cooperation sponsorship found overall supported sports network cooperation marketing at a high level (x̄ =3.66), especially sports network cooperation sponsorship was at a high level in sports specifics, sport club areas, communication channel, sports athlete, support sponsorship efficiency, and extended network of potentiality and supporting factors.
The overall corporate brand sponsorship support was at a high level (x̄ =3.58), where corporate brand sponsorship support was at a high level in brand attributes, brand loyalty, brand image, and brand recognition, including overall network cooperation of sports was at a high level (x̄ =3.56) in areas of sustainable participation, spectacles, sport event participation, behavioral participation, and sport network cooperation was at medium level in e-sports.
The causality model indicated that causes related to society, social caring, sports sponsorship marketing, and brand-sponsored corporations were causally related to network cooperation in sports corporations at a statistical significance of 0.05. The development model was empirically paralleled with the evidence and forecasted at an acceptable level of 48.7%, which passed the standard level of 40%.