Marta fernández olmos

• University of Zaragoza

Aim: This study offers a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of the academic literature on the wine industry, aiming to identify key research streams, emerging trends, core topics, and potential avenues for future investigation. It provides a structured and in-depth overview of the current state of research in this field, laying the groundwork for...

This work aims to clarify the role of intermediate imports on the innovation performance of non‐multinational enterprises (non‐MNEs) by examining the geographic proximity and diversity of international suppliers. Firstly, it has been argued that importing from nearby suppliers will contribute more to innovation performance than distant suppliers. S...

World markets for quality differentiated agri‐food products are highly competitive, presenting significant challenges for firms aiming to compete effectively. Government agencies and business organizations often implement various export promotion policies to address these challenges. This paper explores the role of Denomination of Origin Regulatory...

The competitiveness of small- and medium-sized companies (SMEs) is deeply affected by the increasing globalization of the economy, which offers new growth opportunities. Recently, many traditional SMEs have decided to develop their activities abroad due to domestic saturation in all industries (Dominguez & Mayrhofer, 2017). In the field of internat...

The network perspective has developed abundant research to understand how different kinds of ties affect small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs’) international activities, as we present in this book. In this chapter we summarize the main findings while proposing some future research lines grouped into three main topics: first, the balance betwee...

Selecting an appropriate export channel is one of farmers' most important strategic decisions as it determines farm performance. Although direct and indirect exports are two important channels linking farmers to international markets, little is known about whether direct export is better than indirect export in improving farm performance. This stud...

In light of the increasing demand for sustainable development, the agri-food industry is under pressure to make the transition towards sustainability. Innovation has been identified as a key driver for this transformation. However, the agri-food industry, which in many countries is dominated by small and medium-sized enterprises, is highly sensitiv...

Purpose Using the behavioural perspective as a theoretical complement of rational models, this paper examines factors that influence the decision of producing organic wines. Design/methodology/approach Based on a quantitative analysis of 687 wineries belonging to Denomination of Origin in Spain, the authors empirically examine the sequential relat...

Much has been said about the role that business associations play in the survival of firms, but little is known about how this influences the relationship between exports and the survival of firms. Considering the diverging theoretical assumptions about the importance of business associations, we hypothesize in this paper on the direct effect of as...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effects of civilian, military and dual (both military and civilian) R&D investments on the profitability of firms. In particular, this paper analyses the role of different types of R&D investment in a sample of firms that collaborate with the Spanish Ministry of Defence. This database contains detailed infor...

Una subasta es una alternativa al mercado para determinar un precio de equilibrio para un bien o servicio. Aunque lo primero que se nos viene a la cabeza es un subastador bajando el martillo para entregar el bien a aquel oferente cuya oferta ha sido la más alta, existen otros formatos de subasta En 2020 el Nobel de Economía recayó sobre Paul R. Mi...

La relación entre las actividades de offshoring y el resultado innovador en las empresas de servicios intensivas en conocimiento (KIBs) en comparación con el resto de empresas que no son KIBs sigue siendo un área de estudio poco analizada. Se ofrecen dos resultados importantes. En primer lugar, la actividad de offshoring es una importante fuente de...

Aim of study: To analyse the role that valuable resources and agglomeration would play in the decision to produce organic wines. Area of study: The Controlled Designation of Origin (DOC) Rioja wine industry in Spain, the leading qualified denomination of origin of Spain. Material and methods: Taking into account the nature of the dependent variab...

Purpose The present study aims to provide new evidence regarding the factors that determine the survival of firms in the Spanish wine industry and to improve the understanding of sector dynamics. Design/methodology/approach The empirical analysis, conducted over a representative sample of wineries in the DOC Rioja wine industry, is based on non-pa...

Purpose This paper explores the importance of the importing intensity for different intermediate inputs depending on their source (internal sourcing or intra-firm trade versus external sourcing or foreign suppliers) for different types of innovation (product and process innovation) and applied to MNEs (foreign versus domestic). Design/methodology/...

Collaboration with technological partners as an innovation strategy has become widespread in recent years, and all sectors are immersed in this process. In particular, the defence industry is characterised by the technological complexity of the products and services offered, together with a constant innovation process. However, data that allow us t...

Purpose This study aims to focus on relational social capital in family wineries. Relational social capital is influenced by the family nature of the business and is at the same time a key antecedent of winery performance. The aim is to analyse these relationships in the qualified denomination of origin (DOC) Rioja wine industry (Spain). Design/me...

Institutional networking is a key element in businesses’ internationalisation processes and is an important strategy for promoting the long-term growth and survivability of family SMEs in the DOC Rioja wine industry. We hold that the proportion of family members in the TMT plays an important role in strategic decision-making and helps to explain th...

This chapter examines the factors determining international expansion for a group of Spanish family SMEs. Internationalization is modelled taking into account both the decision to enter foreign markets and the degree of internationalization. This chapter uses the information provided by the Survey on Business Strategies in Spain, including 1,519 ob...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of imported intermediate inputs on innovation performance, differentiating among types of innovation output (product and process innovation) and considering both family and non-family firms in the Spanish context. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses an unbalanced panel of 1963 firm...

Science-Technology Parks (STPs) are designed to promote and boost the innovation of their firms, providing them with numerous benefits. However, the empirical evidence does not confirm it. We question the direct effect of the STP on innovation performance and analyse how being located in an STP improves the results of some entrepreneurial activitie...

This paper studies the relationship between internationalization and performance in agri-food firms. In line with the recent literature, it analyses the effects of the degree of internationalization using a uniform sample, a long-term focus and a measure that combines export intensity and regional diversification. The study empirically confirms the...

In spite of the extensive presence of Science Parks in developed countries, it is still unclear whether they have been successful in fostering the innovation performance of new technology-based firms (NTBFs). The aim of this paper is to help answer exactly this question. Using an unbalanced panel of 7691 observations associated with 1933 Spanish NT...

¿Con qué tipo de contrato debería un terrateniente arrendar sus tierras a un agricultor dado: trabajo asalariado, aparcería o renta fija? El surgimiento de la teoría de agencia aplicado a la selección contractual en los decenios de los setenta y ochenta del siglo pasado ha generado abundante bibliografía que persigue explicar por qué y en qué condi...

We argue that the benefits provided by locations inside science and technology parks evolve over time. Firms inside parks can improve performance due to certain advantages related to knowledge spillovers and shared resources that can be particularly useful in earlier stages of the industry life cycle. In these industries, local knowledge sharing is...

This paper presents a framework to assess the effects of technology collaboration networks (TCNs) on the innovation performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME). It includes three factors that affect firm dynamics and could influence the success of the TCN: the macroeconomic cycle (macro-level), the industry life cycle (industry-level) a...

The objective of this research is to evaluate the effect of the economic recession on the performance of firms located in science or technological parks. Compared to off-park firms, we propose that under an economic crisis park benefits are more noticeable, since firms located inside parks have less resource restraints and access to external source...

This study evaluates the importance of product differentiation as a determinant of vertical integration in firms. The proposed model also controls for known determinants of integration, such as transaction costs and firm-level capabilities. By identifying transaction-, firm- and strategy-level determinants, we derive testable predictions about the...

(In press) This paper complements a new line of research that includes firm heterogeneity in trade models. The central idea of this research is that only the largest and most efficient firms are capable of exporting. However, empirical evidence has confirmed that a large number of SMEs is also involved in internationalisation. Given this context, t...

What am I doing now? This is a question that most students wonder when they finish their university studies. Entering the labor market is an issue which concerns businesses, students and universities. Therefore, this study expect to help both graduates and universities to improve the knowledge of what the labor market demands. In particular, the ai...

The aim of this article was to deepen the study of the determinants of the sporting event’s demand. Specifically, this study is focused on the relationship between the expected quality of the event and attendance at the European football stadiums. The study explores the Rottemberg Hypothesis (1956), which states the existence of a positive effect o...

Previous studies have provided mixed evidence on the relationship between internationalisation and firm performance. We advance theoretically in this line of research by investigating the impact of the family dimension of a business on this relationship. Using a panel data analysis for the 2006–2011 period, we find empirically that Spanish family S...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of the chosen specific internationalization pathway on the relationship between internationalization and firm performance. Design/methodology/approach – This paper analyses the internationalization pathway among small- and medium-sized enterprises which internationalize through exporting...

El objetivo de este trabajo es profundizar en el estudio de los determinantes de la demanda de eventos deportivos. Especialmente, el estudio se centra en la relación entre la calidad del evento y la asistencia a los estadios de fútbol través de una estimación de la función de demanda para las cinco grandes ligas europeas. En el caso del fútbol euro...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the benefits to firms arising from their geographical concentration; paying particular attention to the impact of specialized employees, information and knowledge spillovers and a collective reputation. Design/methodology/approach – The authors have taken into account two main approaches: a cluster...

Selecting an export channel is one of the most important strategic decisions for any exporting agri-food firm. This paper presents a unified theoretical framework, integrating the two decisions (i.e., the export decision itself and the export channel decision) by jointly examining the effects of 1) intangible resources, 2) product quality, 3) firm...

This research evaluates the role of science and technology parks as locations fostering local knowledge exchange and promoting innovation. We consider that these knowledge externalities depend on firms’ internal efforts and strategies, since their capacity to understand and exploit others’ knowledge depends on their own knowledge base. Empirical ev...

This research aims to complement resource-based view with a cluster approach in identifying which elements, both internal to the firm and locally available, improve firms’ export performance. While in the resource-based view exporting firms are contingent upon the development of intangible resources, from a cluster approach exporters exploit local...

This research tries to explain the importance of intangible resources in explaining the international diversification of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Our starting position is that SMEs diversify to leverage their resources across different markets, and therefore a positive relationship is to be expected between technological, human an...

This research paper tries to analyse the role that knowledge about foreign markets has in increasing firms' exports in clustered spaces. We consider two interrelated sources of this knowledge, a firm's direct experience and its indirect experience from other clustered firms. In particular, it is proposed that firms can improve their export performa...

This research evaluates the role of local technology institutions as an external source of ideas, information and knowledge that foster innovation and enhance the performance of firms. It is argued that firms that establish links with local technology institutions have access to valuable external information and knowledge flows, which in turn impro...

Relatively few empirical analyses have attempted to understand the export behavior of small and medium-sized enterprises, and even fewer have examined the wine industry. The purpose of this research is to apply the resource-based view to investigate the determinants of international expansion in the wine industry. Using a sample of 177 firms in the...

Purpose The aim of this research is to determine how trust might moderate the effect of asset specificity on the contractual choice. Design/methodology/approach The sample is drawn from the qualified appellation of origin (DOCa) Rioja wine market. A binomial logit was used as the primary technique for investigation of the hypothesis for the final...

The objective of this paper is to analyze the effect of linear sharing contracts when downstream retail prices are used for compensation in a context of imperfect information about food quality. Such outcome-sharing through retail price contracts can be explained directly by agency theory. While the case of both parties being subject to moral hazar...

This paper investigates how wineries' decisions to grow or buy their provisions of grape affect their viticultural performance. While previous literature in agrarian economics suggests a direct association between vertical integration and performance, this research largely neglects the impact of transaction cost variables on governance mode choice...

This paper uses the principal-agent theory to analytically investigate the optimal incentive-based compensation contract that a processor should offer to a grower performing efforts in quantity and quality. In this process, we contribute to the substantive literature on multi-task principal-agent models by analyzing the quality-quantity trade-off a...

In recent years, in the European Union, there has been an increase in the number of students participating in mobility programs, but it is still considered insufficient. The purpose of this study is to determine students´ perception with regard to mobility. The data source used was specifically designed based on a questionnaire that was provided to...

The authors study the determinants of make or buy decisions for grapes made by wineries belonging to the Rioja Qualified Designation of Origin (DOCa). In particular, they analyze the relationship between product quality and vertical integration. Although there is a long tradition in transaction cost theory of analyzing the determinants of make or b...

Should a landlord adopt a wage labor, a crop sharing or a fixed-payment land rental contract with a particular tenant? The emergence of the agency theory to the contract choice in the 1970s and 1980s has generated a substantial body of theoretical and empirical research on why and under what conditions each contract is chosen. This paper reviews th...

This paper attempts to develop a consistent theory for the choice of performance contracts in agriculture by analyzing the trade-off between quantity and quality and the presence of competence and uncertainty on the basis of the expected utility theory. This theory is able to explain many contract-related issues, such as why the performance contrac...

The central purpose of this paper is to examine the incentive contract as an equilibrium phenomenon. We analyse a model of vertical differentiation in which we deal with the strategic role of the competitor’s decisions in a successive duopoly. Is it better for a processor to offer an incentive contract to an upstream producer or the spot market? We...

This study analysed the relationship between product quality and governance mode choice (market mode, hybrid mode or vertical integration) using the results of a survey of 187 qualified appellation of origin (DOC) Rioja wineries. By estimating a generalized ordered logit, it is concluded that wineries that produce high-quality wines are more likely...

El objetivo del presente trabajo es doble. El primero es promover el debate en torno al rol que verdaderamente desempeña la regulación en relación con la calidad en el sector agroalimentario. Para ello se cuestionan las reformas legales que propugnan que la calidad alimentaria consiste sólo en un conjunto de medidas para evitar fraudes alimentarios...

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, this paper argues that improvements in food safety and quality will not be driven by regulatory changes. Regulation is necessary but good quality and food safety management is primarily a set of practices that enable firms to better meet customer needs, and also promote decision making to assurance the safet...

This study applied a multi-theoretical perspective to explore factors that determine the duration of continuing supply relationships between grape processors and growers. Our empirical study employed hazard rate models with time-varying covariates, using data from supply contracts between wineries and growers in the DOCa Rioja wine industry. We fou...

This article develops and tests a model of integration of the first stage of the wine value chain, i.e. the viticulture activity. The model, derived from the transaction cost analysis developed princi- pally by Williamson, is formulated as a tobit function, which is estimated with data from the wine in- dustry in the Rioja's denomination of origin....

El presente trabajo desarrolla y comprueba empíricamente un modelo de integración vertical de la primera etapa de la cadena de valor del vino, la viticultura. El modelo, derivado del análisis de costes de transacción, desarrollado principalmente por Williamson, se formula como una función tobit que se estima con datos de la industria del vino...

Although economists have expended enormous effort examining the rationale for the contracts in agriculture, few studies have been undertaken in viticulture. However, in grape and wine production we observe different contractual arrangements. The underlying contractual structures are analyzed in different viticulture regions. Irrespective of the mod...

The use of contracts to coordinate the relationship between a grape grower and a winery has become common practice in DOC Rioja. In this paper, the role and the characteristics of contracts in coordinating the supply of grapes between independent wine grape growers and wineries in DOC Rioja is examined. A review of existing theories on contractual...

This paper provides an analysis of the choice of governance mechanism in agriculture using an integrated perspective based on agency theory. The main ways of organizing agriculture are compared: spot market and incentive contract. With the analytical development of both models, it is explored that the choice of the optimal mechanism depends on init...

The possible co-existence of spot and contract market that can emerge in the presence of quality issues with a number of growers and processors in each stage is something that has largely remained an open question in the literature. This paper is an attempt to fill this void. We use a straightforward two-stage Cournot oligopoly model with specific...

This paper develops a double-sided moral hazard model of share contract in agriculture, with imperfect quality measurement by the agent and the principal, who contribute to the final good quality in terms of production effort and marketing effort respectively. Using this model, we analyse the implications of the share contract for quantity and qual...

We analyze the relationship between product quality and governance mode choice using the results of a survey of DOC Rioja wineries. Wineries that produce high-quality wines are more likely to vertically integrate than are wineries that produce low-quality wines. Consistent with Transaction Cost Economics, we find evidence that asset specificity and...

A pesar de que los economistas han dedicado enorme esfuerzo a examinar la racionalidad de los contratos en agricultura, pocos estudios se han llevado a cabo en viticultura. Sin embargo, se observan diferencias contractuales en la producción de uva y vino. En el presente trabajo se analizan las estructuras contractuales actualmente utilizadas en var...

El objetivo del presente trabajo es comprobar las predicciones de la teoría de costes de transacción considerando las alternativas del mercado, híbrido y jerarquía a través de una encuesta realizada a las bodegas en DOC Rioja. En general, se encuentra evidencia de que a mayores costes de transacción vinculados con el mercado, mayor probabilidad de...