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The Future Of Professional Sports’ Audiences: How Organizational Cultures And Social Media Usage Impact Mlb’S Ability To Appeal To Younger More Diverse Fanbases, Alexis Clancy
Honors Projects in Management
Professional sports organizations are continually attempting to broaden their fanbases and appeal to different groups. Major League Baseball (MLB) has particularly struggled to attract younger more diverse fans. Current literature has focused on the ability of social media and front office representation to cultivate social identification and organizational commitment to broaden existing fanbases across all American professional sports. The purpose of this study is to identify how MLB clubs are adapting to combat a diminishing fanbase and how to effectively diversify their reach. Qualitative research was conducted through twenty interviews of MLB and Minor League Baseball (MiLB) front office employees. …
Omnichannel Retail Effectiveness: Consumer Attitudes & Attributes Impacting Cross-Category Success Post-Pandemic, Alyssa Alviti
Omnichannel Retail Effectiveness: Consumer Attitudes & Attributes Impacting Cross-Category Success Post-Pandemic, Alyssa Alviti
Honors Projects in Management
Post-pandemic the retail industry is undergoing a digital transformation, rapidly impacting retailers' business, and consumer behavior: Omnichannel Retail. Successful implementation of omnichannel services, seamlessly integrating in-store and online sales channels, has launched across retail sectors, and become a key strategy for driving business performance. This paper investigates the numerous factors that influence consumer behavior in the new, post-pandemic state of retailing and e-commerce. An examination of consumer attitudes towards varying omnichannel services is measured across six different retail categories. Consumer and demographic attributes are investigated to identify the key characteristics impacting an uninterrupted customer journey and successful omnichannel execution for …
Who Pays For Music?, Meg Aman
Who Pays For Music?, Meg Aman
Honors Projects in Management
The purpose of this capstone project was to determine the attributes of consumers that pay for music, specifically music streaming services. The recent decline in current individual track sales and the increase in the number of streamed songs, highlights the relevance of this topic. The increasing popularity in music streaming has caused much contreversy in the music industry. Many artists are unhappy with the low revenue they receive from songwriting royalties from these streaming services that offer a free platform. Artists are not the only ones who need consumers to pay for music, the music streaming sites that provide free …
The Numbers Behind Celebrating More Birthdays: An Analysis Of The American Cancer Society’S Relay For Life, Eva Mahan
Honors Projects in Management
Despite all of the medical technological advances society has experienced, and is still experiencing, there has not been an ultimate cure for cancer found. Non-profit organizations like the American Cancer Society have been working for 100 years to raise funding and awareness for this issue and although great progress has been made since their founding in 1913, there is still more work that needs to be done to make cancer a disease of the past. This study first focuses on the structure of non-profit organizations, their role in society, and the techniques and procedures they follow when looking for donors. …