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Spanish Wine Cooperatives’ Business Performance: Innovation Capabilities and Miles and Snow Strategies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 November 2019

Juan-Ramón Ferrer Open the ORCID record for Juan-Ramón Ferrer [Opens in a new window] ,
Silvia Abella-Garcés Open the ORCID record for Silvia Abella-Garcés [Opens in a new window]  and
María-Teresa Maza
Juan-Ramón Ferrer
Affiliation:
Universidad de Zaragoza, Facultad de Empresa y Gestión Pública. Departamento de Dirección y Organización de Empresas. Plaza de la Constitución s/n - 22001Huesca (Spain); e-mail: jchofer@unizar.es.
Silvia Abella-Garcés
Affiliation:
Universidad de Zaragoza, Facultad de Empresa y Gestión Pública. Departamento de Dirección y Organización de Empresas. Plaza de la Constitución s/n - 22001Huesca (Spain); e-mail: sabella@unizar.es.
María-Teresa Maza
Affiliation:
Universidad de Zaragoza, Facultad de Veterinaria. Departamento de Ciencias Agrarias y del Medio Natural. Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón-IA2 (Universidad de Zaragoza-CITA), C/ Miguel Servet, 177- 55013Zaragoza (Spain); e-mail: mazama@unizar.es.
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Abstract

Agricultural cooperatives’ economic performance and efficiency today have great economic and social relevance. Consistent with the recent literature, this article examines wine cooperatives and compares them with wine investor-owned firms, studying their innovation capabilities, Miles and Snow strategies, and performance. A survey was conducted in all the wineries in Spain, with 339 responses. The interactions between the independent variables and the dependent variable were analyzed using the logit regression model. The study points out that cooperatives do not have fewer innovation capabilities, nor are they more inefficient, than investor-owned firms, although the factors that modulate their economic performance are different. (JEL Classifications: L66, M10, P13, Q13)

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cooperativesMiles and Snow strategiesperformanceresources and capabilitiesSpanish wine sector

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Journal of Wine Economics , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , November 2019 , pp. 409 - 416
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Copyright © American Association of Wine Economists 2019

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Footnotes

The authors thank Karl Storchmann and an anonymous reviewer for their useful comments, and the attendees at the 13th Annual AAWE Conference 2019 hold in Vienna, Austria, for their helpful ideas and recommendations.

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