... Italy Understanding whether a new product is aligned with consumers' expectations and preferences is crucial for its commercial success. This dilemma raises the interest of scholars to explore the consumers' perception of the product from sensory and hedonic perspectives besides its economic...

... the 2019 National Report on Wine Tourism from the National Association of “Wine Cities” in Italy (the most extreme case in the world of wine), three macro-agglomerates were investigated: digitalization, sustainability and performance, adopting descriptive and inferential statistics. Findings Although...

... PDO areas in Italy. The authors performed a principal component analysis and a two-step cluster analysis to identify different PDO honey consumer segments, focusing on their interest for PDO attributes. Findings The authors identified four consumer segments, depending on socio-demographic...

... Australia Italy This study focuses on Figure 1 , particularly sectoral innovation systems. A sectoral approach was adopted by Liu et al. when examining cross-country renewable energy investment (REI) (Liu et al., 2021). Liu et al. (2021) studied 236 renewable energy firms...

... snacking remains unclear. To bridge this gap, this study focuses on a meal which is often linked to poor eating habits: the afternoon snack. Maternal nutritional knowledge Healthy children's diet Parental practices Household behaviour Child snacking Primary school Italy The prevalence...

... olive oil. The final purpose is to verify whether, and to what extent, consumer acceptance of innovations varies depending on the type of technology used and the profile of consumers. Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional consumer survey has been carried out in Italy. A structured...

... to Italy; (2) the calculation of the virtual water volumes used to produce the crops imported from developing countries to Italy through fair-trade; (3) the analysis of the economic water productivity, obtained by the fair-trade premium, for bananas, cocoa and coffee. Findings The results of this study...

... Wine industry Italy However, the benefits that cooperative members may enjoy from this form of organization are much broader, since cooperatives can also improve the quality of production through the provision of consultancy activities and training opportunities to their members, the pooling...

... software was applied to analyze questions and answers posted on TripAdvisor forums by potential and past visitors of four destinations in Italy (Naples, Florence, Parma and Ferrara). Questions and answers expressed by people with different knowledge in Italian and English were analyzed separately to gain...

...Gustavo Magalhães de Oliveira; Gaetano Martino; Stefano Ciliberti; Angelo Frascarelli; Gabriele Chiodini Purpose This study aims to investigate farmer preferences regarding sales contracts for durum wheat in Italy. Design/methodology/approach The authors consider that contracts are formed...

... preferences for three prototypes of plant-based egg, namely the liquid, powder and egg-shaped. Design/methodology/approach Nine focus groups in the United Kingdom and nine in Italy were conducted, with a total of 180 participants. A thematic analysis of results was conducted. Findings In terms...

...Gustavo Barboza; Laura Gavinelli; Valerien Pede; Alice Mazzucchelli; Angelo Di Gregorio Purpose The purpose is to detect the nonlinearity wholesale rice price formation process in Italy in the 1995–2017 period. Design/methodology/approach A nonlinear smooth transition autoregressive (STAR...

... that can be found in every region of the nation (Benini, 2018). More generally, beyond the strict reference to Italy, wine tourism is a substantial marketing driver for increasing sales at wineries (and not only wineries) and a powerful communication lever for brand visibility, recognition...

... 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Sustainable consumption Wine consumption Wine quality Wine attributes Consumer choice Consumer preference Environment Health Sustainability Italy Giuseppina Migliore is the corresponding author and can be contacted...

...Sergio Rivaroli; Jörg Lindenmeier; Roberta Spadoni Purpose This study aimed to investigate the gendered nature of craft beer (CB) consumption in Italy and Germany. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through online surveys in Italy (N = 210) and Germany (N = 211...

... 26 06 2019 21 08 2019 22 09 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Marketing Case studies Italy Country of origin Restaurants Luxury restaurant Terroir Haute cuisine Chef Focusing on HC, the success...

... by Istat within the Italy ESW project’s activities (equitable and sustainable well-being). The analysis also investigates how this link has evolved over time. Data are related to refer to the situations in 2010 and 2017 in 21 regions of Italy. Findings Results obtained in 2010 seem to confirm...

.... Giampiero Mazzocchi can be contacted at: gia.mazzocchi@gmail.com 21 01 2019 22 05 2019 03 06 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Italy Consumer choice Food policy Alternative food networks Multilevel regression...

...&B industry are also interlinked with environmental issues like deforestation (Beske et al., 2014), agriculture emissions, land use activities and water scarcity (Ponsioen and van der Werf, 2017). Italy Sustainability disclosure Directive 2014/95/EU Food and beverage sector...

... of the first attempts to investigate social media use and online wine purchasing behavior in Italy. In addition, it sheds light on previous research on the influence that objective and subjective knowledge has on consumer behavior. Lorenzo Zanni can be contacted at: lorenzo.zanni@unisi.it 26 06...