Sergio Canavati

Sonoma State University | SSU · Department of Business Administration

Despite the importance of innovation for survival and success of wineries around the world, research in wine industry innovation is limited. This editorial note discusses recent developments in the research of innovation in the wine industry. Special attention is given to the intersectoral nature of the wine industry, which involves agricultural, m...

Research summary We meta‐analyze the structural relationship between human capital, the ability to generate new venture ideas and the favorability of opportunity beliefs to address divergent theoretical predictions and inconsistent empirical findings. We test a two‐stage process model of entrepreneurial opportunity identification, distinguishing be...

When faced with extreme uncertainty and disruption, firms with superior knowledge and skills can not only identify more opportunities, but they can also envision how they will successfully exploit them. Firms that have developed the relevant knowledge, skills, and capabilities are more likely to act on perceived opportunities because they possess t...

When faced with extreme uncertainty and disruption, firms with superior knowledge and skills can not only identify more opportunities, but they can also envision how they will successfully exploit them. Firms that have developed the relevant knowledge, skills, and capabilities are more likely to act on perceived opportunities because they possess t...

While scandal can decrease organizational well-being, can coordinated, ethical responses to crises and disasters increase well-being? Healthy well-being develops within ethical culture, which increases employees' commitment to and engagement in the organization, breeding organizational trust (Huhtala 2011). Ethical behavior across an organization i...

Purpose Empirical studies provide conflicting conclusions regarding the corporate social performance (CSP) of family firms. The purpose of this paper is to synthesize the existing empirical evidence and examine the potential role of research design and contextual factors. Design/methodology/approach A meta-analysis of existing empirical studies...

Importance of this investigation. Recent natural disasters have impacted companies and personnel among various regions and producers in the global wine industry: e.g. earthquakes in Napa Valley (2015) and New Zealand (2016), as well as devastating fires in Napa Valley, Northern Spain, Portugal, and Sonoma County (2017). In emergency situations, man...

We revisit the assertion that entrepreneurs are uniquely characterized in their ways of thinking; specifically being relatively more prone to the overconfidence bias and the representativeness heuristic in their decision-making. We replicate an earlier seminal study in entrepreneurial cognition, with a wider and more current survey. We then extend...