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Christoph Breuer is affiliated with the German Sport University Cologne in Germany. Their research primarily falls within the Social Sciences, with a specific focus on Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies, Marketing, Economics and Econometrics, and Social Psychology.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics in sports and society, including Sports, Gender, and Society, Sport and Mega-Event Impacts, Sports Analytics and Performance, Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification, Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports, the Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering, and Digital Marketing and Social Media.

Recent scholarly contributions include the following publications:

  • Physical Activity of Children and Adolescents during the COVID-19 Pandemic-A Scoping Review (2021), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Board gender diversity, critical masses, and organizational problems of non-profit sport clubs (2020), European Sport Management Quarterly
  • How the type of sports-related endorser influences consumers' purchase intentions (2020), International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship
  • The gender earnings gap among elite athletes in semi-professional sports (2021), Managing Sport and Leisure
  • Professional Clubs as Platforms in Multi-Sided Markets in Times of COVID-19: The Role of Spectators and Atmosphere in Live Football (2021), Sustainability

Key frequent co-authors who have contributed extensively alongside Christoph Breuer include:

  • Svenja Feiler
  • Sören Dallmeyer
  • Kirstin Hallmann
  • Pamela Wicker
  • Felix Boronczyk

The scientist has published multiple works in several prominent academic venues, with the highest number in:

  • European Sport Management Quarterly
  • International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship
  • International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics
  • Journal of Sport Management
  • International Journal of Sport Finance

Christoph Breuer has also authored a book titled Wissen, Zurechnung und Ad-hoc-Publizität, published in 2020 by Duncker & Humblot.

Best Publications

  • Physical Activity of Children and Adolescents during the COVID-19 Pandemic-A Scoping Review.

    Lea Rossi;Nick Behme;Christoph Breuer

  • Scarcity of resources in German non-profit sport clubs

    Pamela Vanessa Wicker;Christoph Breuer

  • Understanding the Importance of Organizational Resources to Explain Organizational Problems: Evidence from Nonprofit Sport Clubs in Germany

    Pamela Vanessa Wicker;Christoph Breuer

  • Promoting Sport for All to Age-specific Target Groups: the Impact of Sport Infrastructure

    Pamela Vanessa Wicker;Christoph Breuer;Tim Pawlowski

  • Top Clubs’ Performance and the Competitive Situation in European Domestic Football Competitions:

    Tim Pawlowski;Christoph Breuer;Arnd Hovemann

  • Analyzing the impact of sport infrastructure on sport participation using geo-coded data: Evidence from multi-level models

    Pamela Vanessa Wicker;Kirstin Hallmann;Christoph Breuer

  • Sport participation and subjective well-being: instrumental variable results from German survey data.

    Jane E. Ruseski;Brad R. Humphreys;Kirstin Hallman;Pamela Wicker

  • Determinants of sport participation in different sports

    Christoph Breuer;Kirstin Hallmann;Pamela Vanessa Wicker

  • Europe’s Elite Football: Financial Growth, Sporting Success, Transfer Investment, and Private Majority Investors

    Marc Rohde;Christoph Breuer

  • Understanding the importance of sport infrastructure for participation in different sports – findings from multi-level modeling

    Kirstin Hallmann;Pamela Vanessa Wicker;Christoph Breuer;Lauren Schönherr

  • Happiness, pride and elite sporting success: What population segments gain most from national athletic achievements?

    Kirstin Hallmann;Christoph Breuer;Benedikt Kühnreich

  • Image Fit between Sport Events and their Hosting Destinations from an Active Sport Tourist Perspective and its Impact on Future Behaviour

    Kirstin Hallmann;Christoph Breuer

  • The Viewer's Reception and Processing of Sponsorship Information in Sport Telecasts

    Christoph Breuer;Christopher Rumpf

  • Family structure, time constraints, and sport participation

    Jane E. Ruseski;Brad R. Humphreys;Kirstin Hallmann;Christoph Breuer

  • The value of Olympic success and the intangible effects of sport events – a contingent valuation approach in Germany

    Pamela Vanessa Wicker;Kirstin Hallmann;Christoph Breuer;Svenja Feiler

  • Event image perceptions among active and passive sports tourists at marathon races

    Kirstin Hallmann;Kyriaki Kaplanidou;Christoph Breuer

  • The market for football club investors: a review of theory and empirical evidence from professional European football

    Marc Rohde;Christoph Breuer

  • Demographic and economic factors influencing inclusion in the German sport system – a microanalysis of the years 1985 to 2005

    Christoph Breuer;Pamela Wicker

  • Soziale Ungleichheiten im Sport

    Michael Nagel;Christoph Breuer

  • Dritter Deutscher Kinder- und Jugendsportbericht

    Werner Schmidt;Nils Neuber;Thomas Rauschenbach;Hans Peter Brandl-Bredenbeck

  • Socio-economic patterns of sport demand and ageing

    Christoph Breuer;Kirstin Hallmann;Pamela Vanessa Wicker;Svenja Feiler

Frequent Co-Authors

Pamela Wicker
Pamela Wicker Bielefeld University
Daniel Memmert
Daniel Memmert German Sport University Cologne
Paul Downward
Paul Downward Loughborough University

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