{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,28]],"date-time":"2026-07-28T18:01:01Z","timestamp":1785261661126,"version":"3.55.0"},"reference-count":16,"publisher":"Public Library of Science (PLoS)","issue":"7","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,28]],"date-time":"2026-07-28T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1785196800000},"content-version":"vor","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/"}],"content-domain":{"domain":["www.plosone.org"],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["PLoS One"],"abstract":"<jats:p>Post-match institutional communication has become a visible component of elite football events, yet comparable official messages can receive very different levels of public attention. This study examines UEFA Champions League post-match communication as a configurational problem rather than as a linear consequence of response speed or message strategy. Using 25 theoretically selected focal club-event observations from the 2017\u20132018\u20132022\u20132023 seasons, it calibrates one outcome set, High_News, from a Raw_Mentions-derived media-visibility proxy and four causal-condition sets: High_Delay, High_Shock, High_Stakes, and High_TemplateDeviation. The analysis uses conservative coding of template deviation, separating response latency from communication form. The intermediate solution identifies one stable high-stakes legacy pathway and one sensitivity-dependent crisis-minimalism pathway. The stable pathway combines non-delayed response, low outcome shock, high match stakes, and trophy\/legacy-oriented template deviation. The crisis-minimalism pathway is retained in the baseline solution but is interpreted cautiously because it depends on medium-confidence coding and changes under strict recoding. The analysis of ~High_News confirms causal asymmetry: non-membership in the high-attention set is not simply the inverse of the pathway(s) associated with High_News. The findings contribute to sport communication research by showing how event structure and institutional discourse combine to produce bounded media visibility, while avoiding population-level claims about all football matches or internal platform algorithms.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0354175","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,28]],"date-time":"2026-07-28T17:28:12Z","timestamp":1785259692000},"page":"e0354175","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.corrections_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Beyond speed and strategy: A configurational analysis of collective attention to post-match institutional discourse in the UEFA Champions League"],"prefix":"10.1371","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Zhichen","family":"Ling","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0007-0485-5785","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Xinlei","family":"Ren","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0006-5175-6977","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Bingquan","family":"Luo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"340","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"pone.0354175.ref001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.4324\/9780203120415","volume-title":"Sport beyond television: the internet, digital media and the rise of networked media sport","author":"B Hutchins","year":"2012"},{"key":"pone.0354175.ref002","volume-title":"It\u2019s a whole new ballgame: how social media is changing sports","author":"J Sanderson","year":"2011"},{"issue":"3","key":"pone.0354175.ref003","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"163","DOI":"10.1057\/palgrave.crr.1550049","article-title":"Protecting Organization Reputations During a Crisis: The Development and Application of Situational Crisis Communication Theory","volume":"10","author":"WT Coombs","year":"2007","journal-title":"Corp Reputation Rev"},{"issue":"1","key":"pone.0354175.ref004","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"74","DOI":"10.1016\/j.pubrev.2012.09.012","article-title":"Sports fans as crisis communicators on social media websites","volume":"39","author":"NA Brown","year":"2013","journal-title":"Public Relations Rev"},{"key":"pone.0354175.ref005","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.7208\/chicago\/9780226702797.001.0001","volume-title":"Redesigning social inquiry: fuzzy sets and beyond","author":"CC Ragin","year":"2008"},{"key":"pone.0354175.ref006","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1017\/CBO9781139004244","volume-title":"Set-theoretic methods for the social sciences: a guide to qualitative comparative analysis","author":"CQ Schneider","year":"2012"},{"issue":"2","key":"pone.0354175.ref007","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"393","DOI":"10.5465\/amj.2011.60263120","article-title":"Building Better Causal Theories: A Fuzzy Set Approach to Typologies in Organization Research","volume":"54","author":"PC Fiss","year":"2011","journal-title":"AMJ"},{"issue":"1","key":"pone.0354175.ref008","first-page":"255","article-title":"Embracing causal complexity: the emergence of a neo-configurational perspective","volume":"43","author":"VF Misangyi","year":"2017","journal-title":"J Manage"},{"issue":"7","key":"pone.0354175.ref009","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1164","DOI":"10.1177\/1461444812440159","article-title":"Want to be on the top? Algorithmic power and the threat of invisibility on Facebook","volume":"14","author":"T Bucher","year":"2012","journal-title":"New Media Soc"},{"issue":"3","key":"pone.0354175.ref010","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"347","DOI":"10.1177\/1461444809342738","article-title":"The politics of \u2018platforms\u2019","volume":"12","author":"T Gillespie","year":"2010","journal-title":"New Media Soc"},{"issue":"1","key":"pone.0354175.ref011","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2","DOI":"10.17645\/mac.v1i1.70","article-title":"Understanding Social Media Logic","volume":"1","author":"J Van Dijck","year":"2013","journal-title":"MaC"},{"issue":"3","key":"pone.0354175.ref012","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"241","DOI":"10.1016\/j.bushor.2011.01.005","article-title":"Social media? Get serious! Understanding the functional building blocks of social media","volume":"54","author":"JH Kietzmann","year":"2011","journal-title":"Bus Horiz"},{"issue":"2","key":"pone.0354175.ref013","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"147","DOI":"10.2307\/2095101","article-title":"The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields","volume":"48","author":"PJ DiMaggio","year":"1983","journal-title":"Am Sociol Rev"},{"issue":"3","key":"pone.0354175.ref014","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"425","DOI":"10.1016\/j.pubrev.2005.05.003","article-title":"Stealing thunder: Analysis of the effects of proactive disclosure of crisis information","volume":"31","author":"LM Arpan","year":"2005","journal-title":"Public Relat Rev"},{"issue":"4","key":"pone.0354175.ref015","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"482","DOI":"10.1177\/1476127018786487","article-title":"Studying configurations with qualitative comparative analysis: Best practices in strategy and organization research","volume":"16","author":"T Greckhamer","year":"2018","journal-title":"Strateg Organ"},{"issue":"4","key":"pone.0354175.ref016","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"778","DOI":"10.5465\/amr.2019.0298","article-title":"Capturing Causal Complexity: Heuristics for Configurational Theorizing","volume":"46","author":"S Furnari","year":"2021","journal-title":"AMR"}],"container-title":["PLOS One"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/dx.plos.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0354175","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,28]],"date-time":"2026-07-28T17:28:15Z","timestamp":1785259695000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/dx.plos.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0354175"}},"subtitle":[],"editor":[{"given":"Jiankun","family":"Gong","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"editor"}]}],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,28]]},"references-count":16,"journal-issue":{"issue":"7","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,28]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0354175","relation":{},"ISSN":["1932-6203"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1932-6203","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,28]]}}}