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Table 1 Topics, geographical coverage and techniques used in selected literature

From: Sustainability in the wine industry: key questions and research trendsa

Topics

Author(s)

Geographical coverage

Study tipology

Technique

Sustainability aspects

Strategy

Atkin et al. (2012)

US

Quantitative

Survey

Links between environmental strategy and performance

Forbes and De Silva (2012)

New Zealand

Quantitative

survey

Environmental Management System

Cederberg et al. (2009)

Chile

Qualitative

Case study at country level

Potentiality of industry organic wine

Flint and Golicic (2009)

New Zealand

Qualitative

In-depth Interviews (Grounded Theory)

Drivers of wine industry sustainability

Guthey and Whiteman (2009)

US (California)

Qualitative

Case study

Firm-ecology relationships

Gabzdylova et al. (2009)

New Zealand

Mixed

Interviews

Internal and external drivers of sustainability

Pullman et al. (2010)

US

Mixed

Interviews

Sustainability practices

Bonn and Fisher (2011)

Australia

Qualitative

Case study

Sustainability as a business strategy

Sinha and Akoorie (2010)

New Zealand

Quantitative

Multivariate Analysis

Environmental practices

Sampedro et al. (2010)

Spain

Qualitative

Interviews

Environment as a business strategy

Warner (2007)

California

Qualitative

Interviews and Focus Groups

Links between sustainability and place-based branding

Preston (2008)

France and Australia

Qualitative

Case study

Change in supply chain practices

Novaes Zilber et al. (2010)

Argentina

Qualitative

Case study

Potentiality of industry organic wine

Poitras and Getz (2006)

Canada

Qualitative

Case study

Host community perspective

Entrepreneurial and Top Management Behaviour

Marshall et al. (2010)

US and New Zealand

Quantitative

Multivariate Analysis

Motivations for improving environmental performance

Marshall et al. (2005)

US

Qualitative

Focus groups and Interviews

Environmental behavior drivers

Cordano et al. (2010)

US

Quantitative

Multivariate Analysis

Drivers of adoption of voluntary EMP

Silverman et al. (2005)

US

Quantitative

Multivariate Analysis

Drivers to improve environmental performance

Consumer Behaviour

Brugarolas et al. (2010)

Spain

Quantitative

Contingent Valuation

Organic wine

Forbes et al. (2009)

New Zealand

Quantitative

Descriptive Analysis

Green production practices in vineyards

Mann et al. (2012)

EU- Switzerland

Quantitative

Survey based on interviews

Determinants organic wine consumption

Bernabeu et al. (2007)

Spain

Quantitative

Conjoint Analysis

Organic wine

Thogersen (2002)

Denmark

Quantitative

Multivariate Analysis

Organic wine

Krystallis et al. (2006)

Greece

Quantitative

Factor Analysis

Organic wine

Loureiro (2003)

US (Colorado)

Quantitative

Probit Model

Environmental friendly label

Blondel and Javaheri (2004)

France

Quantitative

Experimental procedure

Organic wine

Fotopoulos et al. (2003)

Greece

Mixed

Means-end chain analysis

Organic wine

Barber (2010)

USA

Quantitative

Multivariate Analysis

Environmental friendly labels

Barber et al. (2010)

USA

Quantitative

Multivariate Analysis (Factor, Discriminant)

Environmental friendly labels

Bernabeu et al. (2008)

Spain

Quantitative

Multivariate Analysis

Organic wine

Supply chain management and certification

Desta (2008)

California

Quantitative

Cross sectional survey

Code of sustainable winegrowing practices

Ohmart (2008)

California

Mixed

Context analysis based on secondary data

Code of sustainable winegrowing practices

McManus (2008)

Australia

Qualitative

Case study

Environmental sustainability

Ardente et al. (2006)

Italy

Qualitative

Case study

Estimation of direct and indirect env impact with POEMS methodology and simplified LCA

Colman and Paster (2009)

Global

Qualitative

LCA Analysis

Impact on environment based on a carbon calculator model

Marchettini et al. (2003)

Italy

Qualitative

Emergy analysis

Ecological performance of wine production

 

Cholette and Venkat (2009)

US

Quantitative

LCA analysis

Employ CargoScope tool to analyze the carbon and energy profiles of wine distribution