While wine's fascination derives by its heterogeneity, which in Italy is well represented by the denomination of origin system, the internationalization of markets requires large investments implying higher degree of production's control and standardization. These requirements have been resolved...

The working of markets implies decisions based on incomplete and costly information; as a consequence, the mechanisms through which this information is produced and made available to actors are very important. Most prominent among such mechanisms is the role of intermediary actors that do not...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to test whether Top Management Team (TMT) international experience is positively associated to international information acquisition from managerial international contacts and whether international information partially mediates the positive relationship...

Purpose: Although interorganizational relationships are acknowledged as positive for tourism, studies on the subject fail to systematically analyze the joint effects of relationships with different types of organizations. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the influence of the interaction...

Purpose: This study aims to explore the influence of top management team international experience on international strategic decision-making rationality and, subsequently, its effect on decision effectiveness (decision performance). Design/methodology/approach: This analysis is based on survey...

This paper intends to verify the impact of geographical proximity on the processes of knowledge acquisition and exploitation by high-tech start-ups considering at the same time the role of both the social and cognitive dimensions of proximity. Our basic assumption is that proximity means a lot...