Conspicuous production: Wine, capital and status

Overton, John; Banks, Glenn

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“…The wine and its elaboration present elements that make it especially interesting, it is not only a product, but it is also a way of understanding life for both those who produce it and for those who consume it. For producers, wine contributes elements of conspicuous production (Overton and Banks, 2015) and for consumers, wine is linked to moments of quality of life enjoyment, which can be expressed both at home and in a restaurant, or by enjoying a wine tourism activity.…”

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Rhode Island and Connecticut wineries business strategy, performance, and management capabilities: a survey of managerial practices

Villanueva

Ferrer

2020

Journal of Wine Research

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The world wine sector has been greatly changing in recent years; its level of competitiveness is on the rise.In this new environment, many small businesses are joining the industry and developing their activity in geographical regions with less wine tradition. These new wineries in less traditional wine regions have broadened the concept of the industry by linking it with tourism; perhaps with more strength than in other more traditional areas, where this change in the business model has also occurred. To understand what the drivers of a better performance to this new typology of wineries are, this article has surveyed the wineries of the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island, in the northeast of the U.S., a new wine region in the world.Through a questionnaire, the strategies these wineries follow and their relevant management capabilities in relationship with their performance have been analyzed. The conclusions show how the management capabilities the wineries own are as important as the strategy of differentiation they follow in their pursue and obtention of a competitive advantage; and that it is a service and tourism-oriented strategy that eventually facilitates this advantage. The managerial skills of creating an efficient and coordinated organizational structure together with their conception of this service-oriented business, where the tourism aspect plays a fundamental role, seems evident when defining the resources and capabilities that generate their sustainable performance.

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Rhode Island and Connecticut wineries business strategy, performance, and management capabilities: a survey of managerial practices

Villanueva

Ferrer

2020

Journal of Wine Research

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“…More specifically, there is some excellent sociological or sociological-esque, industry-critical work out there which is-if not always explicitly, then certainly very strongly implicitly-also society-critical. For example-and this is by no means exhaustive-the geographer John Overton and company's papers on the comparative GI desires and motivations of large vs. small wine-makers in Aotearoa New Zealand (Overton and Murray, 2017) and also on the use of 'fictive capital' and the status associated with vineyard ownership to enhance-even launderindividuals' reputations (Overton and Banks, 2015); the work of their doctoral student-now Dr Kelle Howsonon the validity of South African wines' ethical branding initiatives against a backdrop of the 'dop' system and other labour concerns (Howson et al, 2014); while another Aotearoa New Zealand based geographer-Nick Lewiswrote an excellent piece on the assemblage of the local wine industry and the responses of different scale players to the fall in grape prices after a record 2008 vintage (Lewis, 2014). These geographers definitely err toward highlighting the links between the places of wine and the economics of capitalism.…”

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A Sociology of Wine – Reflections from my Kitchen Table

Howland

2021

Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change

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In this paper Dr. Peter J. Howland-former bureaucrat, concrete block maker, journo (investigative and sports), publican, apple picker, bank clerk (for one week), gas station attendant (for two weeks), horse-racing results editor and now, wine scholar and practicing neo-Marxist Sociologist-reflexively interviews himself on the current situations in the 'Sociology of Wine' while sitting at his kitchen table nursing a newly inserted 'bionic' elbow and arm, drinking a local Pinot Noir, and 'floating' along on a concoction of painkillers and anti-inflammatories.Given his somewhat physically and socially unsettled circumstances, Howland is unsurprisingly drawn to discussing one of his grumpy old man 'pet peeves'-that is how in the sociological study of wine the foundational and enduring materialities of commercial winemaking-and especially its botanical and economic affordances-are often under-analysed at best or at worst, are demonised as reductive and outmoded. Consequently, Howland argues with himself that these factors are also often overwhelmed by the bling of 'flashy cultural turns' in analysis and theorizing. He calls on sociologists far abler than himself to ensure the foundational and the obvious are an integral part of all wine scholarship-much like the laws of motion are always accounted for in physics research. Howland points to a number of studies that successfully (or at least, that commendably attempt to) combine both the foundational and the cultural turning-ideally highlighting their mutual constitutions and contradictions.

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“…Subjective accounts of the CC of wine in commercial hospitality spaces in China are not hard to find. Other evidence includes accounts that 70% of wine purchased in China is counterfeit (Amber 2017;Shen and Antonopoulos 2016), and reports of the rise in conspicuous investment in wine (Overton and Banks 2015) such as Château Lafite Rothschild. Despite these accounts, little is known about how wine consumption is linked to conspicuous tendencies, or whether wine consumption is merely a reflection of a lifestyle that emulates western tastes.…”

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Conspicuous consumption and hospitality at a wine festival in China

O’Regan

Choe

Yap

2019

Hospitality &Amp; Society

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The nature of Chinese consumption and hospitality has evolved rapidly since the post-80s middle class adopted new lifestyles and consumption choices after the opening up of the economy and society. This study explores the logics underpinning conspicuous consumption of wine in China by way of an exploratory factor analysis of 253 respondents at a wine festival. The study found that conspicuous tendencies manifest themselves with wine consumption, but are affected by culture and traditional values. The study found social and personal influences mediate how individuals perceive and experience consumption in ways that do not wholly follow western practices. This paper contributes to existing hospitality literature by conceptualizing from a consumer perspective, how a product or brand has the potential to become conspicuous within the Chinese hospitality context and explores implications for hospitality research by generating a thorough understanding of links between conspicuous consumption and hospitality.

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Conspicuous production: Wine, capital and status

Cited by 18 publications

References 40 publications

Rhode Island and Connecticut wineries business strategy, performance, and management capabilities: a survey of managerial practices

Rhode Island and Connecticut wineries business strategy, performance, and management capabilities: a survey of managerial practices

A Sociology of Wine – Reflections from my Kitchen Table

Conspicuous consumption and hospitality at a wine festival in China

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