Sport industry cluster – testing the sport value framework on the meso-level.

International audienceThe aim of this paper is to test the sport value framework (SVF) suggested by Woratschek, Horbel, and Popp (2014) in the context of sport industry clusters. Woratschek et al. (2014) suggest a fundamentally new logic for analyses in sport management. Sport management issues should be analysed in the context of the entire value co-creation system of sport industries (meso-level) rather than from the perspective of single actors (individuals, organisations). The aim of this paper is to investigate the validity of the ten foundational premises (FP) of the SVF in the context of sport clusters. The sport cluster model refers to geographical concentrations of interconnected organisations with a particular interest in a sport or related sports (Gerke, Desbordes, & Dickson, 2015)