Sustainability in the Global Wine Industry: Concepts and Cases

Gilinsky, Armand; Newton, Sandra K.; Vega, Rosana Fuentes

doi:10.1016/j.aaspro.2016.02.006

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“…The findings of our study on SME wineries confirm the growing adoption of sustainability practices in the wine sector (Gilinsky et al, ). Unlike other typologies of practices (Flores, ; Pullman et al, ), our study uses a typology based on the management domains in order to evaluate the implementation of specific sustainability practices.…”

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“…The majority of wine producers (70%) belong to the “high sustainability” cluster and are characterized by a higher number of sustainability practices and more optimistic evaluation of sustainability practices (use, labor and financial investments, and satisfaction). Age of the company and type of ownership were also considered to be key determinants of cluster membership, which corresponds with previous research (Gilinsky et al, ). Older family businesses, as well as those that did not obtain advice, are significantly more represented in the low sustainability cluster.…”

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“…Finally, practices related to innovation management are adopted by more than 60% of the wineries in our sample. Through sustainability‐oriented innovations, these wine producers address the need for innovative answers and technology‐driven solutions for challenges in the wine sector, such as the use of scarce resources (Fiore et al, ; Gilinsky et al, ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In the wine industry, the adoption of sustainability practices has gradually increased over the last decade (Gilinsky, Newton, & Vega, 2016;Santini, Cavicchi, & Casini, 2013). Whereas wine producers are confronted with sustainability issues related to greenhouse gas emissions and the use of water, land, pesticides, and energy (Christ & Burritt, 2013;Gabzdylova, Raffensperger, & Castka, 2009), the growing need to address sustainability is reinforced by the high degree of competitiveness in the globalized wine sector and consumers' and policy makers' awareness of the sustainability challenges in wine production (Fiore, Silvestri, Conto, & Pellegrini, 2017;Nazzaro, Marotta, & Rivetti, 2016).…”

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Drivers, adoption, and evaluation of sustainability practices in Italian wine SMEs

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Based on a survey with 64 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in two Italian wine regions, this study aims to (a) identify key drivers and barriers of the adoption of sustainability and (b) compare the adoption and evaluation (use, financial/labor investments, and satisfaction) of sustainability practices in four management domains (marketing, chain, operational, and innovation). Results show that internal drivers were considered to be more important than external drivers. Economic sustainabilityoriented drivers scored significantly lower than drivers related to other dimensions, such as environmental sustainability and heritage. Key barriers refer to labor and investments costs, as well as concerns about greenwashing. Although there are substantial differences in adoption and evaluation of sustainability practices within and between management domains, this study confirms their widespread adoption in wineries. Among users, satisfaction levels outweigh the perceived investments.Except for innovation management practices, financial investments are considered to be lower than labor investments. Positive correlations between use-satisfaction (within each management domain) and between investments or satisfaction levels (between management domains) further lend support for producers' adoption of multiple practices. At sustainability dimension level, heritage is negatively correlated with the evaluation indicators, indicating that it may act as a potential barrier to some sustainability practices. Segmentation analysis identified a low (30%) and high sustainability clusters (70%), which differ significantly in terms of sustainability perceptions and drivers, adoption, and evaluation of practices, as well as company characteristics.Future research needs to validate the findings on SMEs, compare our measures with more objective evaluation indicators, future adoption rates, and multidimensional sustainability practices.

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“…However, this can be affected by the lack of communication with suppliers, delays in the receipt of raw materials or in the delivery of finished products due to Infrastructure problems (roads, airports) [8], and, consequently, it is necessary to study the relationship between these variables. Therefore, the following hypothesis is proposed:…”

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Impact of Infrastructure and Production Processes on Rioja Wine Supply Chain Performance

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This paper presents a structural equation model for analyzing the relationship between four latent variables: infrastructure, production processes, transport benefits, and economic benefits within the supply chain for wine from La Rioja, Spain, by incorporating 12 observed variables. The model proposes six hypothesis that were tested using information gathered from 64 surveys completed by managers of several wineries in the region. The WarpPLS v.5 ® software (Version 5.0, Script Warp Systems, Laredo, TX, USA) was used to execute the model and analyze the direct, indirect, and total effects among latent variables. The results show that the control of production processes is a direct source of economic and transport benefits because of its higher explanatory power of those variables. Similarly, infrastructure is a direct source of transport and production benefits, and some of them are given indirectly. In addition, infrastructure does not have a direct effect on economic benefits; however, there were indirect effects given through production process and transport benefits. Infrastructure is a very important variable because of its influence in the final performance, but also because of its high environmental impact. Finally, economic benefits were explained in 43.8%, 19.1% belonging to production process, 21.1% coming from transport benefits, and 3.7% from infrastructure.

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Analyzing the effect of Corporate Social Responsibility on Green Innovation Performance in the Spanish wine industry: A structural equation modeling analysis

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The present research analyses how Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices affect Green Innovation Performance (GIP) in the Spanish wine industry. To this end, a conceptual model is proposed and contrasted through a quantitative approach based on structural equation modeling with data collected from 202 Spanish wineries between September 2021 and January 2022. The results of the research indicate that there is a positive and significant relationship between CSR and GIP. In addition, Green Intellectual Capital (GIC) and Knowledge Management (KM) partially mediate the relationship between these two variables, playing a key role in the environmental management of wineries. The present research therefore contributes to the literature in several ways. First, the study advances the understanding of CSR in the Spanish wine industry, as well as its relationship with GIP. Second, the research aims to fill a gap in the literature by studying GIC and KM as mediating variables in this link, given that, to our knowledge, there are no previous studies that have analyzed mediating variables in the CSR–GIP relationship. Third, to the best of our knowledge, the proposed model has not been previously addressed in the academic literature, which represents an advance in scientific knowledge. [EconLit citations: L66, 03, M1].

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Sustainability in the Global Wine Industry: Concepts and Cases

Cited by 88 publications

References 51 publications

Drivers, adoption, and evaluation of sustainability practices in Italian wine SMEs

Drivers, adoption, and evaluation of sustainability practices in Italian wine SMEs

Impact of Infrastructure and Production Processes on Rioja Wine Supply Chain Performance

Analyzing the effect of Corporate Social Responsibility on Green Innovation Performance in the Spanish wine industry: A structural equation modeling analysis

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