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Exploring the collective dimension of agricultural entrepreneurship: the case of a wine cooperative in Italy
No full textTo date, a limited contribution has been given to the contextualisation of entrepreneurship in agriculture. Furthermore, existing studies on the sector mainly focused on individual farmers' skills and characteristics. Therefore, more research seems needed to investigate agricultural entrepreneurship within collective-owned firms, such as cooperatives. Based on these assumptions, this work aims at: 1) exploring the collective dimension of agricultural entrepreneurship; 2) providing a more nuanced perspective on how entrepreneurial opportunities are identified and pursued at the two distinct but interweaving levels of cooperative organisation, namely jointly-owned firm and owners-members. The paper focuses on the in-depth longitudinal case-study of a wine cooperative in the south of Italy with 1,000 members. Insights on how agricultural cooperatives may support small farmers and the whole territorial community are provided
Assessing SMEs international performance: the role of different strategic orientations, entrepreneur’s characteristics and environmental conditions
No full textAccessing external networks: the role of firm's resources and entrepreneurial orientation.
No full textAlthough a number of studies investigated the role of firm's internal resources and corporate entrepreneurship activities in determining the access to new resources through external networks, there is a lack of empirical research regarding their combined role. By using survey data from 224 Italian medium-size firms operating in manufacturing industries, we examine how internal resources and entrepreneurial orientation may be related to the use of networks and how entrepreneurial orientation may positively enhance such relationship by enabling the exploitation of new resources. Implications of our findings and directions for future research are discusse
A Shared History for a Shared Project: Using Storytelling and Collaborative Relationships to Launch a New Product
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Investigation of the Crashworthiness Performances and the Effect on Passengers of a Double-Double Designed Skin in a Composite Fuselage Barrel
No full textThe aviation industry is increasingly turning to composite materials for manufacturing high-performance components, necessitating efficient methods to optimize the design of composite laminates. Initially used to replace metals, composites are now being further optimized to enhance performance and reduce weight. This involves adjusting the number and orientation of plies, with approaches such as Double-Double (DD) laminates proving effective for improving strength and reducing weight, regardless of symmetry or orientation. Crashworthiness evaluation remains crucial for assessing the performance of composite aircraft structures, particularly in optimized components such as fuselages. In this work, the crashworthiness performance of a composite fuselage barrel section has been investigated when a new design based on the Double-Double laminates is considered for the skin. Accordingly, a detailed numerical model of the fuselage barrel section structure have been developed in the finite element software Ls-Dyna to simulate a drop test phenomenon. An Anthropomorphic Tesh Device has been placed on the seat to analyze loads experienced during the impact when the skin design changes. A comparison of the lumbar load recorded by the dummy in both configurations has been performed with the aim to prove the effectiveness of the proposed Double-Double design for the skin for ensuring aircraft passengers safety
Telling food and wine stories: storytelling strategies from linguistic and marketing perspectives
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