Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the specialization of regional clusters and their innovative behaviour, in a particular Portuguese region. Design/methodology/approach – A regional case study (Region Centro of Portugal) is used, employing secondary and primary data in order to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to differentiate traditional industrial clusters from emerging consumption‐oriented and destination‐based regional service clusters (e.g. entertainment, service‐based tourism, and convention destination); to develop an analytical framework to...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to explore the early stage of development of a cluster. The literature on early stage of cluster development shows that there are often random effects such as an entrepreneur and spin-off companies, and in this study, a coordinated approach for cluster...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate empirically whether a hybrid, compared with other forms of competitive advantage, contributes to better business performance. Design/methodology/approach – Based on 105 food manufacturing firms in Greece, a European Union (EU) member...

The paper reports the results of a study of food shopping behaviour in Greece. It is concerned with establishing the dimensions underlying shoppers’ evaluations of their regular supermarket store attributes, exploring the existence of shopper segments and subsequently, identifying the segments...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to further develop the extant export problems literature by focusing on a context that has attracted limited attention so far, namely the wine sector. The objective is to examine empirically Greek wine firms' perceptions of the factors that may impede...

Purpose – The central goal of this research is to understand the effects of organizational culture and organizational resilience over the riskiness versus non-riskiness categorization of subcontractors. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – This study utilizes...

The 1997 merger of two USDA agencies, the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service and the Farmers Home Administration, into the Farm Service Agency created a need for consistent finance training. A highly successful Penn State Cooperative Extension borrower training program was...