...David J. Flanagan; Douglas A. Lepisto; Laurel F. Ofstein Purpose The purpose of this paper is to employ an inductive approach to explore how small, nascent, firms in the craft brewing industry use cooperative behaviours with direct competitors to achieve their goals. Design/methodology/approach...

...) of the Italian case and the role of spatial factors in this respect. This investigation is performed adopting an advanced quantitative approach and this attempt is also quite original within this literature. The paper is structured as follows. Section 2 provides a short introduction on craft brewing and its...