Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur sponsorer som förknippas med alkohol kan påverka en idrottsförenings varumärkesimage. Detta kontroversiella fenomen har blivit vanligt inom idrotten idag. Vi ville därför ta reda på vilken effekt det får på idrottsföreningens varumärke.   Metod: En kvantitativ metod har använts och studiens data har samlats in genom en enkätundersökning. Analysen och redovisning av data har skett med hjälp av deskriptiv statistik, korrelationsanalys och regressionsanalys i programmet SPSS.   Resultat & slutsats: Resultaten visar att sponsring från alkoholtillverkande företag generellt har en positiv påverkan på en idrottsförenings varumärkesimage. Detta trots att det är ett omdiskuterat och kontroversiellt förhållande mellan idrotten och alkoholen. Det beror på att förhållandet mellan respektive varumärkesimage inte är samstämmigt och kräver därmed mer tankekraft hos konsumenterna. På så vis befästs sponsorsamarbetet starkare i medvetandet och gynnar varumärkenas image.   Examensarbetets bidrag: Idrottsföreningar bör resonera kring vilka sponsorer som ska exponeras. Resultatet visar att sponsorsamarbeten med varumärken som förknippas med alkohol gynnar idrottsföreningens varumärkesimage. Teoretiskt bidrar studien till den kumulativa forskningen inom marknadsföring och hur sponsring fungerar inom idrott.   Förslag till fortsatt forskning: Studien undersöker hur en idrottsförenings varumärkesimage påverkas av sponsorer som förknippas med alkohol. Ett förslag till framtida forskning är att undersöka flera föreningar och idrotter för att ytterligare stärka den etablerade forskningen. Ett annat förslag är att göra en liknande undersökning ur idrottsföreningars synvinkel för att ta reda på deras åsikt om sponsring. / Aim: The aim of this study is to examine how sponsoring brands associated with alcohol can influence the brand image of a sports association. This controversial phenomena has become more common in the world of sports today. Consequently we wanted to investigate what effect it has on the brand image of the sports associations.     Method: We have used a quantitative method with a survey design. Data was collected through a questionnaire. Analysis and presentation of data was done in the statistical software SPSS in the form of descriptive data, correlation analysis and regression analysis.     Result & Conclusions: The results from our study show that sponsor partnerships with brands associated with alcohol have a positive influence on the brand image of the sports associations. Even though the partnership between the two is highly controversial. This is because the brand images are incongruent and require more cognitional energy of the consumers and therefore the partnership becomes fortified in the minds of consumers.   Contribution of the thesis: Sports associations should consider which sponsorship agreements to be made. Brands associated with alcohol contribute to the brand image, despite the ethical aspect that they should not belong together. Our contribution to the theoretical framework is another examination to the cumulative research within marketing and how sponsorships work in the world of sports.   Suggestions for future research: Our study examine how brands associated with alcohol influence sports associations brand images. A suggestion for future research is to investigate several other sports associations since our study is limited to a single one. Another suggestion is to conduct a research through the perspective of the sports associations. It would be interesting to see the sports associations view of the matter.

[pt] A atividade de patrocínio vem se modificando em todas as partes do mundo. No Brasil, em particular, observa-se que o patrocínio vem sendo mais utilizado como ferramenta do mix de marketing das empresas para promover suas marcas. Porém, uma dificuldade está presente na realidade das empresas patrocinadoras e dos profissionais que trabalham com patrocínio: a avaliação dos projetos. Este estudo se propõe a identificar as principais características dos projetos de patrocínio de eventos e discutir a importância destas características na escolha dos projetos a patrocinar. Foram levantadas 22 características utilizadas por decisores e experts no processo de avaliação de projetos de patrocínio de eventos. Foi constatado ainda que a importância destas características é influenciada pelos diferentes objetivos considerados pelos executivos no momento da escolha dos projetos. / [en] Sponsorship activity has been experiencing changes worldwide. In Brazil, particularly, sponsorship is widely used as a tool within companies´ marketing mix for promoting companies´ brands. However, an issue is present in the reality of sponsor companies and professionals who work with sponsorship: the assessment of projects. This study proposes to identify the main characteristics within sponsorship project of events, and asses the importance of those characteristics when deciding which projects to sponsor. A total of 22 characteristics used by decision makers and experts in the process for assessing sponsorship projects of events were found. The study also determined that the importance of these characteristics is influenced by various purposes, which executives take into account when deciding to sponsor or not projects.

Title: Effectiveness of advertising in Czech hockey league stadiums for the sponsoring companies. Objectives: Expression and evaluation of efficiency of advertising in Czech hockey league stadiums. Methods: Quantitative research among the Czech hockey league stadiums and comparison of acquired data within defined regional units. Used research methods are the descriptive analysis, qualitative polling, content analysis, calculation of media indicators and the comparison method. Results: Effectiveness of advertising in Czech ice hockey league stadiums was mathematically expressed, including statistic and graphic analysis. Index of effectiveness of stadiums and advert types was compared. Due to the low number of stadiums involved in research, the most and less effective advertising type and place was determinate only as a theoretical conclusion. Keywords: effectiveness, advertising efficiency, sport advertising, sport sponsorship

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:30:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Rosana.pdf: 1085452 bytes, checksum: a86b9b66c658cd9db76064bb740fa1fd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-04-08 / This study focuses the action to events sponsorship as a communication tool incorporated into the marketing communication compound. The main objective is to analyze and present how the enterprises use and articulate the marketing integrated communication tools at the sponsorship actions in order to create a synergic effect of communication. The methodology is constituted by bibliographic and documental research and the cases studies involving the companies Ambev, Petrobras and Bradesco with the sponsorship to their respective events: Skol Beats; Pan-american Games 2007 and the Saltimbanco s show from Cirque du Soleil, verifying how the theoretical aspects were appropriated in each case. The conclusions point to, mainly, that the enterprises have searching to employ the maximum communication potential from events, not only when they foster, but also as a sponsors condition, and that the sponsorship must be part of an integrated plan, in which the strategic communications marketing actions, through the several tools which they re constituted, are able to and must be conjugated in order to reach synergy and add value to the sponsor s communication actions.(AU) / Este trabalho enfoca a ação de patrocínio a eventos como ferramenta comunicacional, incorporada ao composto da comunicação de marketing. O principal objetivo é analisar e apresentar como as empresas usam e articulam as ferramentas da comunicação integrada de marketing às ações de patrocínio para se criar um efeito sinérgico de comunicação. A metodologia constitui-se em pesquisa bibliográfica e documental e o estudo de casos envolvendo as empresas Ambev, Petrobras e Bradesco com o patrocínio aos respectivos eventos: Skol Beats; Jogos Pan-americanos 2007 e o Espetáculo Saltimbanco do Cirque du Soleil, verificando como os aspectos teóricos foram apropriados em cada caso. As conclusões apontam, principalmente, que as empresas vêm buscando utilizar o potencial máximo de comunicação dos eventos não só ao promoverem, mas também na condição de patrocinadoras, e que o patrocínio deve ser parte de um plano integrado, no qual as ações estratégicas de comunicação de marketing, através das várias ferramentas que as constituem, podem e devem ser conjugadas para alcançar sinergia e valorizar as ações comunicacionais dos patrocinadores.(AU)

[pt] O patrocínio esportivo é uma das atividades promocionais de marketing que mais se desenvolveu nos últimos anos. Estimativas indicam que os valores investidos mundialmente nessa atividade cresceram mais de mil por cento nos últimos 20 anos, alcançando a soma de 21 bilhões de dólares em 2004. Apesar dos investimentos necessários para se conduzir um programa de patrocínio esportivo serem cada vez mais volumosos, nem sempre as empresas obtém o retorno esperado de seu investimento. Este trabalho tem como objetivo central compreender a efetividade do patrocínio esportivo junto aos consumidores. Para realizar esta análise, selecionou como objeto de pesquisa a Seleção Brasileira de Futebol e os seus três patrocinadores durante a Copa do Mundo de 2006: Nike, Vivo e Guaraná Antarctica. A efetividade do patrocínio esportivo foi avaliada segundo dois fatores principais: o correto reconhecimento das empresas patrocinadoras (mais comumente referido como recall) e o aumento na intenção de compra de produtos dessas empresas por parte dos entrevistados. Três modelos foram desenhados para mensuração da efetividade do patrocínio, sendo dois deles para mensuração de recall e um para mensuração do aumento na intenção de compra. Foi então conduzida uma pesquisa de campo com 382 indivíduos. Os dados coletados foram analisados utilizando técnicas estatísticas multivariadas, tais como análise fatorial, regressão linear múltipla, e regressão logística. Os resultados obtidos evidenciam que alguns fatores têm maior influência para a previsão do recall dos patrocinadores do que outros. Foi o caso do interesse por parte dos entrevistados em futebol, como também do hábito que estes têm em assistir transmissões esportivas. Outra evidência encontrada foi a de que a percepção de similaridade, dos patrocinadores com a Seleção Brasileira de Futebol, influenciou de formas distintas o recall de cada uma das 3 empresas patrocinadoras. Por fim, em termos da intenção de compra, a pesquisa encontrou evidências de que os entrevistados têm sua decisão influenciada a favor dos patrocinadores quando fazem uma avaliação positiva da marca e, também, quando percebem haver similaridade de imagem entre o patrocinador e a Seleção. / [en] The use of sports sponsorship as a marketing tool is in the rise. Estimates indicate that the values invested in this activity have grown over one thousand per cent in the last twenty years, reaching the total sum of US$ 21 billion in 2004. Despite the fact that the capital needed to conduct a sponsorship program is growing considerably, companies that invest in this kind of marketing activity are often not able to obtain the expected return. The main objective of this study is to examine sports sponsorship effectiveness on the consumers. In order to achieve this objective, The Brazilian National Soccer Team and its three official sponsors – Nike, Vivo and Guaraná Antarctica – were used as a case-study. The effectiveness of the sponsorship was evaluated according to two main factors: the correct recall of the sponsors and the increase of the purchase intention of sponsors’ products. Three different models were used to measure the sponsorship effectiveness: two of them to measure recall, and one to measure the increase of the purchase intention. A field research was then conducted with 382 individuals. Three different methods of statistical analysis were used to examine the data: Factor Analysis, Multiple Regression and Logistic Regression. Results showed that some factors have more influence on predicting recall than others. It was the case of the interest that individuals have for soccer, as well as the frequency that they watch sports events through television. Perceived similarity between the sponsors and the team has also influenced the recall of the sponsors, but in a different way for each one of the sponsors. Finally, research showed that the purchase intention tends to be affected by how positive individuals evaluate the brands, and also, when they perceive an image similarity between the sponsor and the Brazilian National Soccer Team.

Cette recherche se positionne dans un contexte de parrainage d'une cause par une marque, et plus précisément dans le cadre d'une publicité de soutien en faveur d'une cause environnementale. Elle vise notamment à répondre à la problématique suivante : comment améliorer l'efficacité d'une publicité de soutien ? La littérature a mis en exergue le rôle majeur joué par la congruence/incongruence perçue entre le parrain et l'entité parrainée, mais ce concept fait néanmoins débat depuis plus de trente ans dans la littérature marketing (Fleck et Maille, 2010 ; Maille et Fleck, 2011). Les objectifs de la recherche imposent une phase importante de meilleure compréhension du concept et de sa mesure (études 1 et 2). L'étude 3, utilisant de manière originale l'approche tétraclasse, propose une nouvelle conceptualisation basée sur l'identification des éléments de contribution à la congruence et à l'incongruence. Sur la base de ces résultats, deux outils de mesure sont proposés permettant de mieux appréhender la congruence perçue et l'incongruence perçue (étude 4). Puis cette recherche étudie, au moyen d'une expérimentation (étude 5), dans quelle mesure et de quelle manière l'articulation du parrainage (explication du lien entre le parrain et l'entité parrainée) peut influencer les intentions comportementales envers la cause soutenue. Les résultats soulignent que la congruence perçue, l'incongruence perçue et la crédibilité du parrain sont médiatrices de l'effet de l'articulation du parrainage sur les intentions comportementales envers la cause soutenue, mais avec une différence d'effet entre congruence et incongruence. En effet, si l'articulation du parrainage influence positivement la crédibilité du parrain en augmentant la congruence perçue et en diminuant l'incongruence perçue entre la marque et l'organisation non commerciale, l'effet de la congruence perçue sur les intentions comportementales envers la cause n'est pas médiatisé par la crédibilité perçue du parrain, à la différence de l'effet de l'incongruence perçue qui est bien médiatisé par cette crédibilité. / This research takes place in the context of cause sponsoring by a brand, and more precisely within the framework of environmental issue advocacy advertising. It aims in particular at answering the following question: how to improve the efficiency of advocacy advertising? Previous research highlighted the major role played by perceived congruency/incongruency between the sponsor and the sponsored entity, but this concept has been still discussed for more than thirty years in the marketing literature (Fleck and Maille, 2010; Maille and Fleck, 2011). The objectives of this research require to better understand the concept and its measure (studies 1 and 2). Study 3 uses in an original way the tetraclass approach to propose a new conceptualization of the concept based on the identification of elements that contribute to congruency and to incongruency. Based on these results, two measurement tools allowing to separately capture perceived congruency and perceived incongruency are proposed (study 4). Then this research examines through an experiment (study 5) to what extent and how sponsorship articulation (the explanation of the link between the sponsor and the sponsored entity) can influence behavioral intentions toward the supported cause. The results underline that perceived congruency, perceived incongruency and sponsor credibility mediate the effect of sponsorship articulation on behavioral intentions toward the supported cause but throughout a different effect on perceived congruency and on perceived incongruency: 1/sponsorship articulation influences positively sponsor credibility due to an increase in perceived congruency and a decrease in perceived incongruency between the brand and the not commercial organization, 2/ the effect of perceived congruency on behavioral intentions toward the cause is not explained by sponsor credibility while the effect of perceived incongruency is explained by sponsor credibility.

Idrotten i Sverige och framförallt herrarnas fotbollsallsvenska genererar årligen mångmiljonbelopp i sponsorintäkter och i vissa fall omsätter till och med föreningen mer än dess sponsorer. Trots det här är tidigare forskning inom aktivering av sponsring ur den sponsrades perspektiv begränsad och nästintill obefintlig. Vi har däremot utgått från forskning ur sponsorns perspektiv för att sedan applicera den till ett föreningsperspektiv. Med utgångspunkt från det har vi format studiens syfte. Studiens syfte har varit att få en inblick i om föreningar i herrarnas fotbollsallsvenska går utöver avtalen och genomför aktiviteter vilket kan gynna sponsorskapet och i sådana fall varför. Studien har genomförts med en kvalitativ ansats och genom semistrukturerade telefonintervjuer med respondenter från föreningar i herrarnas fotbollsallsvenska. Resultatet av studien visade att det finns indikationer på att föreningar i herrarnas fotbollsallsvenska väljer att gå utöver avtalen och därmed aktivera sin sponsring. Omfattningen av föreningarnas aktivering sker däremot i mindre utsträckning i jämförelse med vad forskning menar att en sponsor bör aktivera sig. Den främsta anledningen till att föreningarna valde att genomföra aktiviteter utöver avtalet var att skapa goda och långa relationer med sina sponsorer. Dessutom kunde vi ana en bakomliggande faktor i form av att stärka föreningens egna organisation och därmed kunna erbjuda en mer attraktiv produkt på marknaden. / The sports in Sweden and the associations in the league Allsvenskan annually generates millions and millions in sponsorship revenues, in some cases the association capitalize even more than its sponsors. Previous research on sponsorship activation through the perspective of associations is very limited and almost absent. This study is therefore based on previous research from the sponsors perspective and is applied on the perspective of the associations. Based on this we have shaped the purpose of the study, which was to get an insight into whether associations in Allsvenskan goes beyond the agreement with activities that can benefit the sponsorship and if so, why. The study has been conducted with a qualitative approach and we have done telephone interviews with respondents from associations in Allsvenskan. The result of the study showed that there are indications that associations in Allsvenskan choose to go beyond the agreements and activate the sponsorship. But, the extent of the association´s activation is smaller compared to what extent research suggest that the sponsor should activate. The main reason why the associations choose to activate and go beyond the agreement was to create good and long relationships with their sponsors. In addition to this, we could assume an underlying reason in terms of strengthening the association's own organization and therefore offering a more attractive product on the market.

Orientador: Heloisa Helena Baldy dos Reis / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação Fisica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-15T01:20:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Almeida_RicardoGuilhermeMonteirode_M.pdf: 1373841 bytes, checksum: 7fa4edd21f380c0a9060d490fb37a5c0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: O tema definido para essa dissertação procura mostrar as condições atuais dos clubes de futebol e a sua relação com empresas patrocinadoras. Dentre os objetivos específicos, pretendemos identificar, junto aos patrocinadores de clubes de futebol, as vantagens e desvantagens analisadas no patrocínio; identificar, junto aos patrocinadores de clubes de futebol, o retorno de investimento após o término de contrato com um clube de futebol; identificar, junto aos patrocinadores de clubes de futebol, quais as ações realizadas durante o contrato com os clubes para aumento da visibilidade de sua marca e como são implementadas; identificar os fatores relevantes que fazem com que os patrocinadores esportivos não renovem seu contrato junto aos clubes de futebol; identificar os motivos de troca entre patrocinadores e clubes após o término de contrato de patrocínio esportivo; identificar se a desorganização na gestão de um clube de futebol interfere na descontinuidade de um contrato de patrocínio esportivo; identificar o reconhecimento por parte dos executivos de empresas dos riscos relacionados ao patrocínio esportivo e como enfrentar estas contingências. O desenvolvimento da dissertação se inicia em seu primeiro capítulo com algumas idéias e conceitos do marketing esportivo, mostrando o desenvolvimento e crescimento do marketing esportivo no Brasil e no mundo. No segundo capítulo, abordo o patrocínio esportivo, que mostra os efeitos e benefícios que essa ação pode gerar ao ser bem administrado, através de análises de retorno do investimento realizado pelas empresas patrocinadoras. Nos capítulos seguintes, serão apresentados os dados coletados por meio de entrevistas com as empresas patrocinadoras de clubes de futebol no Brasil e com os respectivos clubes patrocinados, com o objetivo de entender os motivos de uma descontinuidade, quais os impactos gerados e uma análise comparativa entre as respostas dessas empresas, podendo confirmar ou não as hipóteses levantadas durante a dissertação. / Abstract: The subject chosen for this dissertation tries to show the current conditions of the football clubs and their relationship with sponsors. Among the specific objectives to be identified, together with the sponsors of football clubs, the advantages and disadvantages discussed in sponsorship, identify with sponsors of football clubs, the return on investment after completion of contract with a football club, to identify, with sponsors of football clubs, including the actions taken during the contract with the clubs to increase the visibility of your brand and how they are implemented, identify relevant factors that make sports sponsors not to renew his contract with the club football; identify the reasons for exchange between sponsors and clubs after the end of the sponsorship contract, identifying the disorganization in the management of a football club discontinuity interferes with a contract of sports sponsorship, to identify the recognition by corporate executives risks related to sports sponsorship and how to deal with these contingencies. The development of the dissertation starts in his first chapter with some ideas and concepts of sports marketing, showing the development and growth of sports marketing in Brazil and the world. In the second chapter, I discuss sports sponsorship, which shows the effects and benefits that this action may cause to be well managed through analysis of return on investment for sponsors. In the following chapters will present the data collected through interviews with the sponsors of football clubs in Brazil and its sponsored clubs, in order to understand the motives of a discontinuity, which the impacts and a comparative analysis replies from these companies and can confirm or refute the hypotheses for the dissertation. / Mestrado / Educação Fisica e Sociedade / Mestre em Educação Física

Sponsring i Sverige idag är en miljardindustri och idrotten får den största delen av kakan. Allsvenskan ligger i framkant när det kommer till sponsring och föreningarnas omsättning består till stor del av sponsorintäkter. Av den summan står huvudsponsorer för den största delen och är därmed den kategori sponsorer studien behandlar. Vårt syfte är öka förståelsen för vilka mål som är gällande för huvudsponsorerna, om de aktiverar sin sponsring samt om storleken på deras kostnad påverkar målen. För att ta reda på det identifierade vi de vanligast förekommande målen i litteraturen och lät Allsvenska huvudsponsorer svara på hur viktiga målen var för dem. De fick även frågor gällande aktivering och kostnadsstorlek. Studien kartlägger vilka mål som är viktigast för de Allsvenska huvudsponsorer som deltagit. Exponering och externa mål visade sig vara viktigare än mål som var riktade internt. Det mål som utmärkte sig mest var Ökad varumärkeskännedom som fick klart högst resultat. Studien stärker även den rådande bilden av att svenska företag är dåliga på att aktivera sin sponsring, exempelvis visade det sig att vissa av huvudsponsorerna inte aktiverar sin sponsring alls. På grund av respondenternas låga svarsfrekvens gällande frågan om kostnadsstorlek misslyckades studien i viss mån att kategorisera målen på det sättet. / Sponsorship in Sweden is a billion crown industry and sports gets the biggest part of that sum. The highest soccer league in Sweden, Allsvenskan, has clubs that rely heavily on sponsorship money to make the business run. Each club has sponsors in different categories depending on much they invest. This study will focus on the main sponsors in each club that pay the clubs the largest amount. Our purpose is to increase the understanding about which objectives with sponsorship that are most established among main sponsors to clubs in Allsvenskan. Also to examine if they activate their sponsorship and if the size of the investment affect the sponsorship objective. To do this we identified the most common objectives with sponsorship from literature and let main sponsors of clubs in Allsvenskan respond to how important each of these objectives were to their sponsorship. We also included questions regarding activation and size of investment. This study shows which objectives with sponsorship that are most established to main sponsors of clubs in Allsvenskan. Objectives of more external character regarding exposure seemed more important than other objectives. The objective of Brand awareness scored the highest result. The study also underlines the notion that swedish sponsors are bad at activating their sponsorship, some of the participating sponsors didn’t activate their sponsorship at all. Because most participants did not answer the question about how much they invest in the club the study to some degree fail to categorise objectives with sponsorship in regards to how big the investment is.

Motivation är idag ett vedertaget beaktat fenomen hos flertalet organisationer som genom olika verktyg eftersträvar att få personalen motiverade i arbetet vilket i sin tur gör organisationer mer effektiva och framgångsrika. En relativ outforskad metodik för organisationer är att främja en motiverad personal med sponsring. Generellt uppfattas sponsring som ett legitimt marknadsföringsverktyg, men på senare tid har sponsringsfenomenet tagit en annan riktning där flera forskare menar att sponsring kan påverka organisationers personal och motivera dem i arbetet. Sponsring, som verktyg för att motivera personal, kan därför konkretiseras som ett relativt outforskat område. Utifrån forskning och tidigare publikationer verkar det föreligga fördelar för mindre organisationer att främja motiverad personal genom sponsring. Utifrån studiens problemdiskussion väcktes en ambition där syftet för denna studie är att utvärdera om sponsring fungerar och kan användas som ett verktyg för att motivera personal i mindre organisationer. För att svara på syftet genomfördes en enkätundersökning. Enkäten skickades ut till personal i sex mindre organisationer som sponsrar elitidrottsföreningar där totalt 52 ifyllda enkäter samlades in. Insamlad data har analyserats med stöd av den teoretiska referensramen där resultatet visar att sponsring fungerar och kan användas som ett verktyg för att motivera personal i mindre organisationer. Resultatet visar dock att dessa organisationer inte lyckas motivera all personal genom sponsring, varav problematiken ligger i att inte all personal värdesätter eller tillåts bli involverad i sponsringsaktiviteterna. Om personalen får påverka val av sponsring och involveras i sponsringsaktiviteterna skulle organisationerna kunna utvinna mer motivation hos personalen. Resultatet indikerar även att sponsring som motivationsverktyg fungerar något bättre i mindre organisationer jämfört med större organisationer, men finner begränsningar som framtida studier kan besvara. / Today motivation is a well-considered phenomenon of several organizations that, through various tools, seek to make staff motivated at work that which in turn make organizations more effective and successful. A relatively unexplained methodology, for organizations promoting a motivated staff, is through corporate sponsorship. In general, corporate sponsorship is perceived as a legitimate marketing tool, but lately, the corporate sponsorship phenomenon has taken another direction where several researchers believe that sponsorship can affect organizational staff and motivate them at work. The corporate sponsorship, as a tool for motivating staff at work, can therefore be precised as a relatively unexplored area. Based on research and previous publications, there seems to be advantages for smaller organizations to promote motivation for staff through corporate sponsorship. Based on the problem discussion, the ambition arose where the purpose of this study is to evaluate whether corporate sponsorship serves and can be used as a tool to motivate staff in smaller organizations. To answer the purpose of this paper, a survey was conducted. The survey was sent to the staff in 6 smaller organizations who are sponsoring professional athletes compounds, where a total of 52 completed questionnaires were collected. The collected data has been analysed based on the theoretical reference framework, where the results show that corporate sponsorship serves and can be used as a tool to motivate staff in smaller organizations. However, the results show that these organizations fail to satisfy all staff by corporate sponsorship, the problem being that not all staff valued or was allowed to engage in the sponsored activities. If the staff get´s a chance to make an influence on the decisions that surrounds the corporate sponsorship and is allowed to be involved in the sponsored activities the organizations could gain more motivation from the staff. The result also indicates that corporate sponsorship, as a motivational tool, serves slightly better in smaller organizations compared with larger organizations but finds limitations that future studies can relate.