Sustainable Business Model Innovation vs. “Made in” for International Performance of Italian Food Companies

Chiara, Alessandra De

doi:10.3390/agriculture11010017

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“…Some authors have recently studied sustainable competitiveness in some specific sectors, such as tourism (Nadalipour et al, 2019), energy (Mills et al, 2021), agriculture (Qtaishat et al, 2022;Kucher, 2020), agri-food (Constantin et al, 2023). Meanwhile, studies on "sustainable international competitiveness" are very scarce and recent (Ghag et al, 2023;Tang et al, 2022;De Chiara, 2020). In the agro-export sector, De Chiara (2020) showed that the adoption of environmental and social criteria by Italian agri-food companies was the result of innovation processes, which in turn had a positive influence on their international competitiveness performance.…”

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Rethinking the international competitiveness of olive oil in Spain and Chile: governance of sustainable practices

Boza,

Núñez-Mejía,

Mora

2023

Int. Food Agribus. Manag. Rev.

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The international competitiveness of agri-food products is crucial for the economic growth of exporting countries, which is also closely related to critical aspects of sustainable development. This research aims to comprehensively understand the factors of international competitiveness in two contrasting cases: Spain as the world’s leading exporter and Chile as an emerging exporter of olive oil. This study takes a novel approach by including the governance of sustainable practices as part of the framework for analyzing international competitiveness. A mixed research method was used: firstly, quantitative indicators were estimated to compare the levels of international competitiveness of both countries; secondly, a qualitative analysis was carried out to analyze in depth the determinants of international competitiveness based on Porter’s Diamond Model. The results show that Spain has solidified its position as the world’s leading olive oil exporter. On the other hand, Chile still has a small market share; however, it already achieved its revealed comparative advantage in 2015. The potential causes of this performance were determined by the comparative study of the determinants of the competitiveness of Porter’s diamond model; “Factor conditions”, “Demand conditions”, “Firm strategy, structure, and rivalry”, “Related and supporting industries”, “Government” and “Chance”. In addition, both countries show the adoption of sustainable practices in their exports driven by subsidy policies, informal conventions, and consumer preferences. Finally, some relevant implications for management and public policy are highlighted.

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Rethinking the international competitiveness of olive oil in Spain and Chile: governance of sustainable practices

Boza,

Núñez-Mejía,

Mora

2023

Int. Food Agribus. Manag. Rev.

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“…Moreover, despite the issue of the links between CSR&P is a well-known general issue (Kang and Liu, 2014;Klassen and Vereecke, 2012;Waddock and Graves, 1997;Wang and Choi, 2013), literature devoted to CSR&P in the agri-food sector mainly investigates impacts of CSR on performance (CSR→P) in terms of both direct (De Chiara, 2021;Martos-Pedrero et al, 2019;Nirino et al, 2020) and indirect (Weber and Saunders-Hogberg, 2020) impacts.…”

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Performance analysis and clustering of Italian SA8000-certified food and beverages companies

Cristofaro

Liberatore²,

Casolani³

et al. 2022

BFJ

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PurposeThis work aims at discovering the multifaceted business performance of SA8000-certified companies operating in the Italian food and beverages manufacturing industry.Design/methodology/approachA clustering based on a principal component analysis considering 20 profitability, productivity and value-added distribution ratios was carried out on a sample of 105 Italian SA8000-certified food and beverages manufacturing companies.FindingsTwo clusters (CL1 and CL2) emerged from the statistical analysis, where CL1 represents 85.71% of the sample. Despite their general and some labour-related features being similar, they show very different performances. While CL2 performs better both within the food and beverage manufacturing industry than CL1, the latter performs similarly to industry, although even lower. Labour productivity pushes the gap between the clusters mostly through sales (generating revenues) and production (in the aspect of generating personnel costs). These findings suggest that a nonunique performance profile of firms SA8000 certified exists and that low performances do not prevent certification.Originality/valueBy focusing on SA8000 standard in the food and beverage sector, the study contributes to the research field by investigating the relationships between corporate social responsibility and firm performance in an important industrial sector for the Italian economy.

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Current Framework of Italian Agriculture and Changes between the 2010 and 2020 Censuses

Altamore,

Chinnici,

Bacarella

et al. 2024

Agriculture

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This study aims to describe the current framework of the Italian agricultural sector and the changes that occurred in the decade between the two general censuses of agriculture of 2010 and 2020, and the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) programming period 2014–2020. The General Census of Agriculture is an economic census carried out to fulfill international and EU legislation requirements, but also to meet national information needs. It consists in counting farms and identifying their characteristics. For this study, the official data of the 7th Italian General Census of Agriculture (GCA) of 2020 were collected, analyzed, and compared to those of the previous 6th GCA of 2010. Farms’ type of activities, structure, digitalization/computerization, innovation, and workforces’ characteristics were analyzed. Correlations between farms with investments in innovation and other variables like the age and the educational qualification of entrepreneurs and the farm’s size (agricultural used area) were calculated. Groups of similar Italian regions for types of farm and types of farming (segmenting the sector into subsets of regions that share common characteristics), and groups of similar farming characteristics in the entire agricultural sector, were highlighted. The results showed a notable positive correlation between farms’ investment in innovation and farms’ size, and a medium but positive correlation also with other two variables, the entrepreneur’s range of age and educational qualification. Results found groups of regions that are similar in terms of types of farm and farming types, highlighting that the agricultural sector in Italy is not homogeneous among all the regions of north, center, and south. Moreover, the discovered different groups of farming characteristics highlighted the Italian “farm profiles”, i.e., descriptions of key information about different specific types of farm. The overall analysis of all the results of this study provided the current situation of the Italian agricultural sector and discussion about its characteristics and changes during the last ten years. Based on our knowledge, this study is the first one with such a level of comprehensiveness. Findings are of high interest to academics in agriculture economics and policy maker, because they contribute to identifying the farms’ and territories’ strategic elements that require strengthening to foster economic and social development. Moreover these findings may provide food for thought on the effectiveness of the development strategy of the EU CAP 2023–2027 (through greening and digitization) at the regional and European levels, starting from the baseline situation of this country, which is certainly one, but which is among the most relevant ones in the European agri-food system and also globally.

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Sustainable Business Model Innovation vs. “Made in” for International Performance of Italian Food Companies

Cited by 3 publications

References 72 publications

Rethinking the international competitiveness of olive oil in Spain and Chile: governance of sustainable practices

Rethinking the international competitiveness of olive oil in Spain and Chile: governance of sustainable practices

Performance analysis and clustering of Italian SA8000-certified food and beverages companies

Current Framework of Italian Agriculture and Changes between the 2010 and 2020 Censuses

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