This study compares the profitability of cooperatives and investor-owned firms in the Italian wine sector. From a review of the financial ratios that have traditionally been applied in previous studies, we identify the key factors that affect firm profitability (proxied by sales growth) and...

O objetivo deste trabalho é estimar a função de demanda de importação de vinho no Brasil. Os dados utilizados são de janeiro de 1995 a novembro de 2007, com periodicidade mensal. O modelo econométrico dinâmico de ajustamento parcial, também conhecido como modelo de Nerlove, foi o...

Throughout the last two decades or so the global pattern of wine production has undergone fundamental changes. New players have emerged and technological and organizational changes have reshaped the way wine is produced and marketed. The aim of this study is to increase our understanding into...

The aim of this study is to analyse the efficiency of companies forming collective brands in the experience goods sector. The central hypothesis is that collective brands have a positive impact on the efficiency of their member companies and that this is because collective reputation encourages...

This paper analyzes the relationship between Global Wine Industry Share Price Indexes and composite stock market indexes using a Threshold Vector Error Correction Model (TVECM), aiming to investigate if investments in the wine sector play a role in determining financial risk and return to...

Accessing new markets generally depends on the ability of firms to be competitive in those markets. Therefore, low scale production - and the correlated narrowness of markets - often depends on the inability of firms to leave a protected area. In fact, leaving a protected area requires competing...

Except unwelcoming and unfriendly area of agriculture, in general, Antarctica, all continents meet grape-vine, which is plant trees with the largest expansion around the globe. Wine, the wine produced extremely complex (the composition of the entering over 300 different chemical compounds) has a...

The situation with wine sector and wine tourism (enotourism) in many countries of the world is analyzed in the given article. Also, some figures from the Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index and opinions of the world known experts from this sphere are done.

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Internationalisation as a strategic element in the current context of globalisation is increasingly a determinant of business success. Based on the literature in the area of internationalisation and networks, through a case study - a cooperation network involving small and medium-sized...