Dimensions of Market Demand Associated with Pre-season Training: Development of a Scale for Major League Baseball Spring Training

Sport Management Review

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 271-296

  Braunstein, Jessica R ^a   Zhang, James J ^a   Trail, Galen T ^a   Gibson, Heather J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

consumer behaviour; scale development; sport tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 51749088369     PISSN: 14413523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1441-3523(05)70042-5     Document Type: Article

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