Escuela Superior de Gestión Comercial y Marketing, ESIC
Abstract
Today, the companies, usually, consider the presence of the intangible
assets, specially the brand, in the strategic plans of the organizations. So
much the scientific community of marketing, as the managerial world they
deal that managing the brand and to know its value is a prior matter in
altars to managing to differentiate the products and to reach a competitive
advantage. In the world of the sport, in which increasingly the economic
interests prevail over other interests of emotional type, it seems to be
unavoidable to confront the study of the management of the brand equity
of sports entities and clubs. They are organizations that try to compete on
a market increasingly competitively and lucratively, and that for it must
try to manage and to administer its resources efficiently. And one of these
resources it constitutes the brand, the name of the sports entity.
In this paper, after approaching the knowledge of the concept brand
equity and its components, giving a particular vision of the importance
that has the brand equity in sports organizations and proposing a model
who helps the sports agent to understand and up to valuing the brand of
the entity that it manages