Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: conceptualising power, practice and empowerment through South Africa -- The South African wine industry : conflict and continuity -- Local practices of empowerment in South Africa's wine industry : difference and dilemmas -- Practicing empowerment as...

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: conceptualising power, practice and empowerment through South Africa -- The South African wine industry : conflict and continuity -- Local practices of empowerment in South Africa's wine industry : difference and dilemmas -- Practicing empowerment as...

Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) has been a major policy thrust of the democratic governments in South Africa since 1994 in attempting to redress the effects of apartheid. This paper explores the historical precedents to BEE in South Africa, its origins, and its points of contact with the...

In November 2003, the South African wine industry held its first consultative conference on ‘Black Empowerment’. The press reported to the world that the industry was at last entering ‘the new South Africa’. For years, it had been a byword for white power and black exploitation –...

We examine the value of terroir, which refers to the special characteristics of a place that impart unique qualities to the wine produced. We do this by conducting a hedonic analysis of vineyard sales in the Willamette Valley of Oregon to ascertain whether site attributes, such as slope, aspect,...

This paper adopts sociometric analysis to explore the process of knowledge acquisition and diffusion in clusters of firms. By comparing the knowledge systems of two clusters selected for being at different stages of their development path, this study shows that the knowledge system of the...