Graduation Year
2020
Date of Submission
12-2019
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
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Best Senior Thesis in Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Economics
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Darren Filson
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2019 Victoria A Flores Najas
Abstract
The rise of competitive gaming, also known as eSports, has attracted a wide range of corporate sponsors seeking to target the demographic of eSports enthusiasts. I use cross-sectional data on 300 teams across the world to investigate the factors (earnings, tournaments won, social media followers, years active, region, and the presence of a star athlete) correlated with the presence of a sponsor, the type of sponsor (endemic or not), and/or the number of sponsors a team has. In a logit model, a team’s probability of having a sponsor increases by 1.1% for every additional tournament won (p
Recommended Citation
Flores Najas, Victoria, "eSponsorships: Determinants of eSports Team Sponsorships" (2020). CMC Senior Theses. 2336.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2336
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