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Gúdel Fernández, Ricardo Hernández Correa, Emilio Acebes Senovilla, Fernando Pajares Gutiérrez, Javier 2025-12-02T16:15:06Z 2025-12-02T16:15:06Z 2025 Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 7, 1638764 https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/80248 10.3389/fspor.2025.1638764 1 7 14 Frontiers in Sports and Active Living 7 2624-9367 Producción Científica Introduction: This study examines how different configurations of the Ownership Landscape influence the preservation of Intangible Cultural Heritage in sporting events, using Japan as a case study. Drawing on the Resource-Based View, it explores how ownership models act as strategic resources that affect both cultural sustainability and long-term competitiveness. Methods: A qualitative multiple-case study was conducted on four football-related events: the J.League, the All Japan University Football Championship, the Shakaijin Cup, and local festival-based tournaments. The study combined documentary analysis with Data Envelopment Analysis to assess how governance and ownershipstructures generate valuable, rare, inimitable, and non-substitutable resources. Results: Findings reveal that participatory and hybrid ownership models are more effective in activating VRIN resources, ensuring both organizational resilience and cultural embeddedness. A blend of national sponsorship and local identity in professional leagues, the academic traditions of the Intercollege, and the Shakaijin Cup’s regional roots show how sporting events reflect and generate cultural forms. Discussion: This research challenges top-down and purely economic evaluations of sports events, advocating for culturally sensitive governance that fosters local engagement and authenticity. It extends the RBV to multi-actor, culturally embedded ecosystems and proposes adaptable principles: promoting hybrid ownership, embedding cultural narratives, and engaging diverse stakeholders. Sporting events, when aligned with community values, serve as platforms for intergenerational cultural transmission and community development This project has been partially funded by the Regional Government of Castile and León (Spain), under the Regional Accredited Research Groups Support Program, with grant VA042G24. application/pdf spa frontiers info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 1.0 Universal ownership landscape (OL), resource-based view (RBV), intangible cultural heritage (ICH), sports governance, Japanese football, bottom-up management, sports event, community engagement Strategic ownership configurations to foster intangible cultural heritage in Japanese football events info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion SI