Associate Professor, Sport Management
Dr. Burton’s research explores the strategic management and implications of marketing and sponsorship, taking a multi-dimensional approach to sport marketing research. In this context, his areas of interest include: sponsorship management and strategy; commercial rights management; athlete branding and celebrity endorsements; geopolitical sport business and management; sport fan behaviour; and social media marketing and user engagement.
- Sponsorship management
- Ambush marketing
- Brand strategy
- International sport business
Burton, N., & Hyatt, C. (upcoming). Exploring Fan Response to Coopted Team Brand Identity Following a Franchise’s Relocation. Journal of Sport Behavior.
Burton, N., & Schlieman, T. (upcoming). User Response to Virtual Reality Sponsorship Activations on Social Media: Exploring Impressions of GoPro’s Use of 360º Video in Marketing. Journal of Interactive Advertising.
Burton, N., & McClean, C. (2021). Exploring Newsjacking as Social Media-Based Ambush Marketing. Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal, 11(2), 143-163.
Burton, N., Chadwick, S., & Widdop, P. (2020). Soft Power Eroded – How COVID-19 Has Undermined Gulf Airlines’ Sports Sponsorships. Sport and Entertainment Review. https://serjournal.com/2020/07/06/white-paper-soft-power-eroded/.
Chadwick, S., Widdop, P., & Burton, N. (Accepted, January 27, 2020). Soft Power Sports Sponsorship – A Social Network Analysis of a New Sponsorship Form. Journal of Political Marketing. https://doi.org/10.1080/15377857.2020.1723781.
Burton, N. (2019). Exploring User Sentiment Towards Sponsorship and Ambush Marketing. International Journal of Sports Marketing & Sponsorship, 20(4), 583-602.
*Winner of the 2019 International Journal of Sports Marketing & Sponsorship Outstanding Paper Award.
Burton, N., & Bradish, C. (2019). Commercial Rights Management in Post-Legislative Olympic Sponsorship. Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal, 9(2), 201-220.
Burton, N., Bradish, C., & Dempsey, M. (2019). Exploring Expatriate Fan Identification, Awareness, and Motivation Around the FIFA World Cup. Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal, 9(1), 78-96.
Burton, N., & Chadwick, S. (2019). European football supporter attitudes toward ambush marketing. International Journal of Sports Marketing & Sponsorship, 20(1), 143-162. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSMS-10-2017-0107.
Burton, N., & Bradish, C. (2018). Discursive power in commercial rights management: Examining the origins of the ethical framing of ambush marketing. International Journal of Sport Communication, 11(2), 200-218.
Roberts, S., & Burton, N. (2018). Should I Stay or Should I Go? Managing Sponsor Relations Through Athlete Transgression. Journal of Global Sport Management, 3(2), 170-188.
Burton, N., McKelvey, S., & Snyder, K. (2018). The Evolution of Media Reporting of Ambush Marketing. Sport Marketing Quarterly, 27(1), 18-30.
Burton, N. & Chadwick, S. (2017). Ambush marketing is dead, long live ambush marketing – a re-definition and typology of an increasingly prevalent phenomenon. Journal of Advertising Research.
Burton, N., McKelvey, S. & Snyder, K. (In press). The evolution of media reporting of ambush marketing. Sport Marketing Quarterly.
Burton, N., Chadwick, S. & Bradish, C. (2016). Ambush Marketing in Sport. In Nielsen, K., Storm, R. & Wagner, U. (Eds.), When Sport Meets Business (pp. 108-119). London: Sage Publications.
Burton, N., Chadwick, S. & Bradish, C. (2015). Ambush Marketing in Sports. In Chadwick, S., Chavanat, N. & Desbordes, M. (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Sports Marketing (pp. 180-194). New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
Burton, N., Gorse, S. & Chadwick, S. (2012). Building an Entrepreneurial Sports Empire: The Case of Red Bull. In Ciletti, D. & Chadwick, S. (Eds.), Sports Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice
(pp. 15 – 26). Morgantown, West Virginia: Fitness Information Technology.
- Advanced Sport Marketing
- Globalization of Sport
- Sports Sponsorship
- Introduction to Sport Management
