Wine business in a changing competitive environment â strategic and financial choices of Campania wine firms

Rossi, Matteo; Vrontis, Demetris; Thrassou, Alkis

doi:10.1504/ijbg.2012.043975

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“…Italy in fact is characterised by clusters that are based on the flexible specialisation between a large number of SMEs sharing a complementary technological specialisation in a territorial network of common norms and values. This competitive framework has been, until recently, a source of advantages both for the firms belonging to this network and for the foreign countries where these networks have emerged Rossi et al, 2012).…”

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Strategic R&D internationalisation in developing Asian countries - the Italian experience

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Vrontis

2015

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Increasingly over the last two decades, companies not only produce and sell, but also develop goods and services outside their home countries. Rapidly becoming the rule rather than the exception, these firms undertake significant R&D activities at different locations abroad. The phenomenon is especially visible in the developing Asian countries, whose markets are becoming extremely attractive to foreign firms while their workforce's and infrastructural R&D capacities and competencies themselves progressively favour R&D. The aim of this paper is to show R&D internationalisation activities of firms from Italy in Asian developing countries. Using a dataset of 500 Italian firms with international R&D units, as well as interviews, we researched whether companies follow a knowledge augmenting or knowledge sourcing strategy. The results show a positive relation between the choice to settle R&D units in Asia and the sale of innovative products in Asia, concluding that firms follow a knowledge exploiting strategy, establishing their whole innovation value chain to developing Asian countries.

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Strategic R&D internationalisation in developing Asian countries - the Italian experience

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“…There are also many empirical studies on the financing decisions of large and listed companies (Bradley et al 1984;Auberbach 1985;Friend and Hasbrouck 1988;Titman and Wessels 1988;Barclay et al 1995;Rajan and Zingales 1995;Graham 1996;Chen et al 1998;Wald 1999;Rossi et al 2012;Rossi 2014), but the scientific community has only recently started to study the financial structures of the small companies. In spite of this, there are a considerable number of relevant empirical works worldwide such as Constand et al (1989), van der Wijst (1989), Walker (1989a, b), Holmes and Kent (1991), Chittenden et al (1996), Calcagnini and Iacobucci (1997), Hamilton and Fox (1998), Jordan et al (1998), Michaelas et al (1999) and López and Aybar (2000).…”

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The impact of corporate characteristics on the financial decisions of companies: evidence on funding decisions by Italian SMEs

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Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) represent a large percentage of the corporate tissue of developed countries, but they do not have adequate attention. In fact, various researchers have focused their studies on larger and well-known companies. This paper aims to investigate the impact of corporate characteristic on the financial choices of SMEs, with a specific focus on agro-food micro companies. Access to finance is vital in business start-up, development and growth for SMEs, all with very different needs and facing different challenges in terms of finance compared to large companies. The lack of equity invested in small enterprises makes them more dependent on other external sources (e.g. bank loans, overdraft, factoring and leasing). The limitations of the paper are the result of its very nature: it is a largely conceptual paper. Empirical research is therefore needed to test and validate the essentially preliminary framework.

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“…Sometimes, results will enlighten the stakeholders' path for them to become more productive and/or to be innovative as it has been demonstrated, for example, in Campania, wine industry, Italy (Rossi, Vrontis, & Thrassou, 2012). This study shows the importance of oenogastronomy and all the other activities in vicinity.…”

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Which Comes First: “Tourism or Oenogastronomy?”

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Nutrition is a crucial driving motive of human beings. When someone wants to increase his/her quality of life (QOL), he/she needs to consider some other factors additional to nutrition. Varieties and presentations of food and beverage (F&B) make it possible for us to enjoy them. Either they will be transported to the consumers in order to fulfill their basic needs or they may go and discover them in their natural environment. Another option is originating oenogastronomy tourism especially value added by side-trips, entertainment, and other activities. By converting terroirs into tourist destinations, we can attract people and in connection therewith reorganization of the aimed places can be triggered via having a vast number of people visiting the created destinations. While this adventurous path is flourishing, we deal with some new born concepts such as oenogastronomy, slow food, hedonism, and so on.Depending on the country, culture, and organizational background, these interactive changes take place. Research question of this paper resembles the chicken and an egg situation: "To what extend oenogastronomy serves for tourism and/or tourism serves for oenogastronomy?". Studies show the reciprocal relationship between the two concepts. Their interrelated connections affect each other's existence and size. Traveling and tourism are kind of leisure which involves getting away from various routines. Especially in a terroir where the grape production is possible, oenogastronomy flourishes as a crucial branch of tourism which directly increases leisure variety by affecting all the other related sectors. Actually, when tourists consume wine, the aim will be reached easier.

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Wine business in a changing competitive environment â strategic and financial choices of Campania wine firms

Cited by 62 publications

References 8 publications

Strategic R&D internationalisation in developing Asian countries - the Italian experience

Strategic R&D internationalisation in developing Asian countries - the Italian experience

The impact of corporate characteristics on the financial decisions of companies: evidence on funding decisions by Italian SMEs

Which Comes First: “Tourism or Oenogastronomy?”

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