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Journal article
Published: 01 October 2020 in Sustainability
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Small-scale sports events are a good strategy for communities seeking to attract visitors and are one of the major attractions of sustainable sports tourism. The aim of this study to determine which factors influence the future intentions of the tourist involved in small-scale sports events. The sample was composed of 236 subjects who participated in a half-marathon in Spain. The results of the Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) provide support for the applicability of the tourists’ perception questionnaire in the context of sports events. The results of both validity (convergent and discriminant) and reliability (internal consistency) analyses were satisfactory. The results indicated that this scale had 18 items distributed in six factors (communication, staff, electronic wordofmouth, destination image, satisfaction and future intentions). The proposal model revealed that satisfaction is a mediated factor between staff and destination image with future intentions of repeating the event. Electronic word of mouth and satisfaction were influencing factors that predicted the tourists’ future intentions. This finding suggests that this questionnaire can be a useful tool in measuring tourist perception on a small-scale sports events scale, allowing a better understanding of the reasons that lead a tourist to select a certain destination and sports event.

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José Vegara-Ferri; José López-Gullón; Irena Valantine; Arturo Díaz Suárez; Salvador Angosto. Factors Influencing the Tourist’s Future Intentions in Small-Scale Sports Events. Sustainability 2020, 12, 8103 .

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José Vegara-Ferri, José López-Gullón, Irena Valantine, Arturo Díaz Suárez, Salvador Angosto. Factors Influencing the Tourist’s Future Intentions in Small-Scale Sports Events. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (19):8103.

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José Vegara-Ferri; José López-Gullón; Irena Valantine; Arturo Díaz Suárez; Salvador Angosto. 2020. "Factors Influencing the Tourist’s Future Intentions in Small-Scale Sports Events." Sustainability 12, no. 19: 8103.

Review
Published: 17 August 2020 in Sustainability
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Recently the development of new technologies has produced an increase in the number of studies that try to evaluate consumer behavior towards the use of sports applications. The aim of this study is to perform a systematic review of the literature on the intention to use mobile applications (Apps) related to fitness and physical activity by consumers. This systematic review is a critical evaluation of the evidence from quantitative studies in the field of assessment of consumer behavior towards sport applications. A total of 13 studies are analyzed that propose models for evaluating the intentions to use fitness applications by sport consumers. The results revealed several key conclusions: (a) Technology Acceptance Model is the most widely used model; (b) the relationship between perceived utility and future intentions is the most analyzed; and (c) the most evaluated applications are diet/fitness. These findings could help technology managers to know the most important key elements to take into account in the development of future applications in sport organizations.

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Salvador Angosto; Jerónimo García-Fernández; Irena Valantine; Moisés Grimaldi-Puyana. The Intention to Use Fitness and Physical Activity Apps: A Systematic Review. Sustainability 2020, 12, 6641 .

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Salvador Angosto, Jerónimo García-Fernández, Irena Valantine, Moisés Grimaldi-Puyana. The Intention to Use Fitness and Physical Activity Apps: A Systematic Review. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (16):6641.

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Salvador Angosto; Jerónimo García-Fernández; Irena Valantine; Moisés Grimaldi-Puyana. 2020. "The Intention to Use Fitness and Physical Activity Apps: A Systematic Review." Sustainability 12, no. 16: 6641.

Journal article
Published: 22 June 2020 in Sustainability
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Aggression and violence among youth are researched as social phenomena in sport. This paper was designed to determine the occurrence of these behaviors as well as prosocial behaviors among young athletes. The current paper is a research report aiming to detect the frequency of aggressive behavior, social exclusion, prosocial behavior and cohesion in the youth environment, the frequency of personal experience of peer violence or social exclusion, and to evaluate cross-national differences in terms of occurrence of these phenomena.The field research was conducted in six European countries (Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, Lithuania, and Serbia) on a sample of 482 children aged 6 to 16. The conducted questionnaire consisted of pre-existing scales and measures for specific behaviors and social aspects that formed the Youth Environment Assessment and Youth Characteristics Questionnaire. Previous personal experience of violence and social exclusion determined groups in the sample. One-way ANOVA and discriminant analysis were conducted to compare various variables and groups within the sample. The results have shown that aggressive and social exclusion behaviors are rare or very rare, predominantly in the form of verbal aggression in the sports club environment. The results of the conducted discriminant analysis indicate that prosocial and cohesion behaviors occur “quite often” to “often” among sports club athletes’ samples. The percentage of athletes who have had personal experience of violence or social exclusion in the last two years and whose feeling of hurt by that experience was assessed as “a lot” or “fully” on the measurement scale is estimated to be approximately 25%. Mild cross-national differences emerged in the overmentioned variables, probably due to the sample specificity, or to cultural variety. The results indicate the need for longitudinal research on this topic since the sport is an environment in which cohesion can be developed among young athletes, but it is not free from social exclusion or aggression.

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Ivana Milovanović; Ambra Gentile; Tea Gutović; Ana Kezić; Doris Matošić; Rasa Kreivytė; Irena Valantine; Gioacchino Daidone; Antonino Bianco; Dijana Radjo; Borislav Obradović; Patrik Drid. Prosocial and Aggressive Behavior Occurrence in Young Athletes: Field Research Results in Six European Countries. Sustainability 2020, 12, 5085 .

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Ivana Milovanović, Ambra Gentile, Tea Gutović, Ana Kezić, Doris Matošić, Rasa Kreivytė, Irena Valantine, Gioacchino Daidone, Antonino Bianco, Dijana Radjo, Borislav Obradović, Patrik Drid. Prosocial and Aggressive Behavior Occurrence in Young Athletes: Field Research Results in Six European Countries. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (12):5085.

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Ivana Milovanović; Ambra Gentile; Tea Gutović; Ana Kezić; Doris Matošić; Rasa Kreivytė; Irena Valantine; Gioacchino Daidone; Antonino Bianco; Dijana Radjo; Borislav Obradović; Patrik Drid. 2020. "Prosocial and Aggressive Behavior Occurrence in Young Athletes: Field Research Results in Six European Countries." Sustainability 12, no. 12: 5085.

Article
Published: 01 February 2020 in International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal
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The number of sports firms has grown in recent years, along with the emergence in this sector of so-called lifestyle entrepreneurs. However, although some research has been done to analyse and understand this type of entrepreneur in the sports sector, relatively little is known about them or the factors that affect the performance (objective and subjective) and the continuity of their firms (intention to operate the firm for a long time). Therefore, the objectives of the current study are to discover what combinations of corporate social responsibility behaviours and lifestyle-oriented motivations generate high and low levels of objective and subjective performance for these sports lifestyle entrepreneurs and to analyse whether objective and subjective performance are related to their intention to operate their firm for a long time. To this end, a questionnaire was administered to different owners of multi-adventure sport firms at both the national and international levels. Then, a qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) methodology was used to analyse the data. The results show that the combinations of conditions required to reach objective and subjective performance are different and that lifestyle-oriented motivation is of particular importance for subjective performance. Moreover, only subjective performance was related to the intention to operate the firm for a long time. Thus, these results help to better understand the lifestyle entrepreneurs in the sports sector by clarifying which factors influence the performance of these types of firms. Finally, some theoretical and practical implications are presented for policy makers in the sports sector.

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María Huertas González-Serrano; Josep Crespo Hervás; Irena Valantine; Manuel Alonso Dos-Santos; Ferran Calabuig Moreno. Impact of lifestyle oriented-motivation and corporate social responsibility on multiadventure sports firms´ performance. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal 2020, 16, 935 -959.

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María Huertas González-Serrano, Josep Crespo Hervás, Irena Valantine, Manuel Alonso Dos-Santos, Ferran Calabuig Moreno. Impact of lifestyle oriented-motivation and corporate social responsibility on multiadventure sports firms´ performance. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal. 2020; 16 (3):935-959.

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María Huertas González-Serrano; Josep Crespo Hervás; Irena Valantine; Manuel Alonso Dos-Santos; Ferran Calabuig Moreno. 2020. "Impact of lifestyle oriented-motivation and corporate social responsibility on multiadventure sports firms´ performance." International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal 16, no. 3: 935-959.

Journal article
Published: 31 October 2018 in Engineering Economics
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This research is related to brand perception and its implications for the management of sports services. The aim of this study is to analyse the influence of perceived brand quality on credibility and attitudes towards this perceived quality from the point of view of users, as well as whether that relationship could trigger increased loyalty and recommendations. The survey was conducted in a public sports service located in Valencia, Spain, and its results have confirmed the influence of perceived quality on credibility but not on attitudes. On the other hand, the effects of credibility and attitudes on loyalty have been significant because of the influence of credibility on recommendations and attitudes. Conversely, attitudes have not had a direct influence on word of mouth (WOM). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ee.29.4.17694

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Mario Alguacil; Juan Manuel Nunez-Pomar; Irena Valantine; Josep Crespo-Hervas; Carlos Perez-Campos; Inga Staskeviciute Butiene. The importance of the services brand in predicting loyalty and word of mouth. Engineering Economics 2018, 29, 446 - 454 .

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Mario Alguacil, Juan Manuel Nunez-Pomar, Irena Valantine, Josep Crespo-Hervas, Carlos Perez-Campos, Inga Staskeviciute Butiene. The importance of the services brand in predicting loyalty and word of mouth. Engineering Economics. 2018; 29 (4):446 - 454.

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Mario Alguacil; Juan Manuel Nunez-Pomar; Irena Valantine; Josep Crespo-Hervas; Carlos Perez-Campos; Inga Staskeviciute Butiene. 2018. "The importance of the services brand in predicting loyalty and word of mouth." Engineering Economics 29, no. 4: 446 - 454.

Editorial
Published: 21 April 2018 in Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology
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Sport Against Violence and Exclusion (SAVE), a project cofounded by the Erasmus + Program of the European Union, seeks to prevent violent and socially exclusive behaviors through physical activity. The current editorial shows a range of possible interpretations of these two phenomena from both a psychological and sociological point of view, offering helpful methods to coaches who train children (ages 6 to 12)in grass-root sport clubs. Following a thorough analysis, partners from seven EU countries (Lithuania, Italy, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Austria, and Spain) will be able to identify skills and techniques for coaches to ensure inclusive training methods as well as to provide them with effective conflict resolution tools. Furthermore, both trainers and parents will have access to an online platform with useful information regarding these issues.

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Ambra Gentile; Irena Valantine; Inga Staskeviciute-Butiene; Rasa Kreivyte; Dino Mujkic; Aela Ajdinovic; Ana Kezić; Đurđica Miletić; Almir Adi Kovačević; Dejan Madic; Patrik Drid; Antonino Bianco. Preventing Violence and Social Exclusion through Sport and Physical Activity: The SAVE Project. Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology 2018, 3, 25 .

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Ambra Gentile, Irena Valantine, Inga Staskeviciute-Butiene, Rasa Kreivyte, Dino Mujkic, Aela Ajdinovic, Ana Kezić, Đurđica Miletić, Almir Adi Kovačević, Dejan Madic, Patrik Drid, Antonino Bianco. Preventing Violence and Social Exclusion through Sport and Physical Activity: The SAVE Project. Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology. 2018; 3 (2):25.

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Ambra Gentile; Irena Valantine; Inga Staskeviciute-Butiene; Rasa Kreivyte; Dino Mujkic; Aela Ajdinovic; Ana Kezić; Đurđica Miletić; Almir Adi Kovačević; Dejan Madic; Patrik Drid; Antonino Bianco. 2018. "Preventing Violence and Social Exclusion through Sport and Physical Activity: The SAVE Project." Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology 3, no. 2: 25.

Journal article
Published: 06 March 2018 in Education + Training
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand how the nationality and the sport education system could affect the entrepreneurial intentions (EI) of undergraduate sport science students in two different countries. Design/methodology/approach A total of 249 undergraduate sport sciences (SS) students from Spain and Lithuania were analysed. The EI questioner questionnaire by Liñán and Chen (2009) was used to compile the data during the 2016-2017 academic year. Findings There are significant differences between the sport science students of Spain and Lithuania. The Lithuanian students have significantly higher means in the variables of EI, perceived behaviour control and professional attraction. Moreover, the variables that predict EI are different, and certain path coefficients of the variables are also significantly different. Research limitations/implications The sample originates from one university in each country; therefore, these results may not be generalisable to the entire population. Practical implications The SS degrees in Lithuania and Spain should follow different educational policies with the objective of fostering EI and increasing the number of entrepreneurs. Social implications Creating adequate educational policies to foster entrepreneurship in sports across countries could improve the number of entrepreneurs in the sports sectors; thus, the youth unemployment rate will decrease. Originality/value There has been no previous research that analyses the EI of sport science students across contexts through the theory of planned behaviour. Moreover, there are no studies that compare the EI of university students between Spain (Western Europe) and Lithuania (Eastern Europe).

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María Huertas González-Serrano; Irena Valantine; Josep Crespo Hervás; Carlos Pérez-Campos; Ferran Calabuig Moreno. Sports university education and entrepreneurial intentions. Education + Training 2018, 60, 389 -405.

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María Huertas González-Serrano, Irena Valantine, Josep Crespo Hervás, Carlos Pérez-Campos, Ferran Calabuig Moreno. Sports university education and entrepreneurial intentions. Education + Training. 2018; 60 (5):389-405.

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María Huertas González-Serrano; Irena Valantine; Josep Crespo Hervás; Carlos Pérez-Campos; Ferran Calabuig Moreno. 2018. "Sports university education and entrepreneurial intentions." Education + Training 60, no. 5: 389-405.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2017 in Baltic Journal of Sport and Health Sciences
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Background. In recent years sports industry has been growing fast, changing trends forced organizations to be creative and look for different ways to increase the competitiveness. Sport has become a business that meets all key management principles (Paul, 2003). In order for an organization to be profitable it is important to have good governance and effective marketing to attract new customers (Fillis & Mackay, 2014), in sports – fans that create added value for the clubs (Zagnoli & Radicchi, 2010). Some authors argue that fans are not only consumers, but also co-creators of the final product (Richelieu & Pons, 2011). The objective of this work was to measure the impact of basketball fan behaviour on the brand of sport organization. Methods. To measure the impact of basketball fan behaviour on the brand of sports organization methodological triangulation was used in the study. The research consisted of 3 stages: questionnaire (Sandanski, Slavchev, & Draganov, 2016), semi-structured interviewing I and semi-structured interviewing II. The study was partly conducted during the Erasmus+ Sport project “Fans Against Violence”. In Lithuania the aforementioned project was conducted by the Lithuanian Basketball Federation in the partnership with association “Aktyvistai”. 240 basketball fans from 5 different Lithuanian basketball clubs participated in the survey, 4 representatives from different basketball clubs and 4 fan leaders from different sport clubs were interviewed. Results and conclusions. The majority of basketball fans that participated in the survey were men aged 20–24 years (25.8%) and attended basketball matches by the guidance of hedonistic will (13.5%). The same men became basketball fans encouraged by other fans (25%). The strife between fans from different basketball teams goes from generation to generation and the main reason of aggressive behaviour is provocative actions from opposite fans (15%) and alcohol consumption (11.4%). While alcohol consumption is considered to be one of the main reasons to encourage fans’ aggression, only a small percentage of the respondents were strongly against the use of alcohol (7%). Summarizing all the results that were received during a semi-structured interviewing II it can be stated that the behaviour of the fans not only affects the brand of a basketball club, but is the main factor that impacts the brand of the club.

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Irena Valantinė; Ingrida Grigaliūnaitė; Lina Danilevičienė. IMPACT OF BASKETBALL FAN BEHAVIOUR ON THE ORGANIZATION’S BRAND. Baltic Journal of Sport and Health Sciences 2017, 1, 47 -54.

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Irena Valantinė, Ingrida Grigaliūnaitė, Lina Danilevičienė. IMPACT OF BASKETBALL FAN BEHAVIOUR ON THE ORGANIZATION’S BRAND. Baltic Journal of Sport and Health Sciences. 2017; 1 (104):47-54.

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Irena Valantinė; Ingrida Grigaliūnaitė; Lina Danilevičienė. 2017. "IMPACT OF BASKETBALL FAN BEHAVIOUR ON THE ORGANIZATION’S BRAND." Baltic Journal of Sport and Health Sciences 1, no. 104: 47-54.

Journal article
Published: 20 June 2016 in Intangible Capital
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Purpose: The objective of this article is to know if there are differences in the variables that explain the entrepreneurial intention of the Physical Activity and Sport Science students addressing academic training and gender of them.Design/methodology/approach: To know entrepreneurial intentions and the different variables related to entrepreneurship, a questionnaire previously validated was used. The questionnaire was provided to 578 students pre-graduated (1st-4th course) and post-graduate of Physical Activity and Sport Science degree of Valencia.Findings: Statistically significant differences (p ≤ 0.05) in the variables that predict entrepreneurial intention of Physical Activity and Sport Science students by gender and training were found. In both genders, the attitude towards entrepreneurship and the perceived behavior control were the predictors of entrepreneurial intentions and in men also the subjective norms.Research limitations/implications: The students sample belongs only to the Physical Activity and Sport Science degree of Valencia, so the results cannot be extrapolated to the entire population.Practical implications: It should be developing the attitude toward the behavior of entrepreneurship and perceived behavioral control to promote entrepreneurship. In this way, the graduates will be more prepare for insertion into the working world.Social implications: To increase the number of entrepreneurs (male and female) in the sports sector throughout the education, reducing the gender gap in entrepreneurship and improve the quality of entrepreneurship, as this is a key issue because of the positive impact that this phenomenon generates on the economyOriginality/value: It is interesting to know the predictor variables of entrepreneurial intentions, and to know if there are differences based on education and gender due to the massive entry of women into the sport workplaces and low intention to undertake of the. So it is quite important training in the best way, both graduates (male and female) with entrepreneurial skills.

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María Huertas González Serrano; Irena Valantine; Carlos Pérez Campos; Sergio Aguado Berenguer; Ferran Calabuig Moreno; Josep Joan Crespo Hervás. La influencia del género y de la formación académica en la intención de emprender de los estudiantes de ciencias de la actividad física y el deporte. Intangible Capital 2016, 12, 759 .

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María Huertas González Serrano, Irena Valantine, Carlos Pérez Campos, Sergio Aguado Berenguer, Ferran Calabuig Moreno, Josep Joan Crespo Hervás. La influencia del género y de la formación académica en la intención de emprender de los estudiantes de ciencias de la actividad física y el deporte. Intangible Capital. 2016; 12 (3):759.

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María Huertas González Serrano; Irena Valantine; Carlos Pérez Campos; Sergio Aguado Berenguer; Ferran Calabuig Moreno; Josep Joan Crespo Hervás. 2016. "La influencia del género y de la formación académica en la intención de emprender de los estudiantes de ciencias de la actividad física y el deporte." Intangible Capital 12, no. 3: 759.

Journal article
Published: 28 April 2016 in Engineering Economics
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The quality of service offered by sports entities has become a good predictor of user satisfaction and also future intentions. To know the future intentions of customers of any service is a key objective to develop service improvement and retention strategies. This need has also become apparent to professional sports clubs. In this study, the relationship between quality, perceived value, emotions, satisfaction and future intentions of spectators are analyzed for a sporting event. Using a sample of 563 spectators and modeling with structural equations, results indicate that perceived value is the best predictor of the satisfaction and future intentions of spectators, while quality and emotions have limited relevance as predictors of spectator satisfaction. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ee.27.2.12288

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Ferran Calabuig Moreno; Josep Crespo Hervas; Juan Nunez Pomar; Irena Valantine; Inga Staskeviciute Butiene. The role of perceived value and emotions in the satisfaction and future intentions of spectators. Engineering Economics 2016, 27, 221 - 229 .

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Ferran Calabuig Moreno, Josep Crespo Hervas, Juan Nunez Pomar, Irena Valantine, Inga Staskeviciute Butiene. The role of perceived value and emotions in the satisfaction and future intentions of spectators. Engineering Economics. 2016; 27 (2):221 - 229.

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Ferran Calabuig Moreno; Josep Crespo Hervas; Juan Nunez Pomar; Irena Valantine; Inga Staskeviciute Butiene. 2016. "The role of perceived value and emotions in the satisfaction and future intentions of spectators." Engineering Economics 27, no. 2: 221 - 229.