D.Comm / Despite the large amounts of money spent on sponsorships and per implication sport sponsorship, little research is available concerning sponsorship practices in South Africa. There is thus a need for a research study or project to establish how corporate sponsors and sport organisations manage relationship marketing within sponsorships. Literature shows that there is a need to understand the various relationships in sport sponsorships, in order to be able to establish and maintain long-term successful sponsorship agreements. / Prof. W.J. Hollander Prof. J.Busser

Submitted by Noeme Timbo (noeme.timbo@metodista.br) on 2016-08-19T19:32:59Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Jefferson Ferreira Saar4.pdf: 2606103 bytes, checksum: ec75d1c1af2b8c18261c80c76d5bb4ba (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-19T19:32:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jefferson Ferreira Saar4.pdf: 2606103 bytes, checksum: ec75d1c1af2b8c18261c80c76d5bb4ba (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-26 / The doctoral thesis discusses how the Methodist University of São Paulo (UMESP) and the University of Taubaté (UNITAU) using the high performance sport as a means of strategic divulgation. The study shows what is the relationship between the institutional and market communication of the universities and the high performance handball. The thesis presents the communication tools used by UMESP and UNITAU to publicize its sponsorship activities and evaluates the communication flow of marketers universities with sports managers handball. The comparison between universities gave up the use of research method of 'multiple case studies'. The documentary research and literature were used for the theoretical construction work. Data from the study subjects were collected by using the interview technique, those that adopted the characteristic 'semi-structured' with open questions and script use. It was concluded that the UMESP and UNITAU universities bit explore the victorious image of high performance handball investing as a strategic means of divulgation. / A tese aborda como a Universidade Metodista de São Paulo (UMESP) e a Universidade de Taubaté (UNITAU) utilizam o esporte de alto rendimento como meio de divulgação estratégica. O estudo mostra qual é a relação existente entre a comunicação institucional e mercadológica das referidas IES e o handebol de alto rendimento. A tese objetiva também, apresentar as ferramentas de comunicação utilizadas por UMESP e UNITAU para divulgar suas ações de patrocínio e, por fim, avaliar o grau do fluxo de comunicação dos profissionais de comunicação e marketing das IES com gestores esportivos do handebol. A comparação entre as IES analisadas deu-se pelo uso do método de pesquisa de ‘estudos de casos múltiplos’, já a pesquisa documental e a bibliográfica foram utilizadas para a construção teórica do trabalho. Os dados dos objetos de estudo foram coletados através do uso da técnica de entrevista, estas que, adotaram a característica ‘semiestruturada’ com perguntas abertas e uso de roteiro. Concluiu-se que as universidades UMESP e UNITAU pouco exploram a imagem vitoriosa do handebol de alto rendimento que investem como meio estratégico de divulgação.