Title: The role of internal resources in the competitive positioning of Sicilian wine cooperatives

Authors: Antonino Galati; Antonio Tulone; Salvatore Tinervia; Maria Crescimanno

Addresses: Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Building 4, 90128, Palermo, Italy ' Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Building 4, 90128, Palermo, Italy ' Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Building 4, 90128, Palermo, Italy ' Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Building 4, 90128, Palermo, Italy

Abstract: The paper is an original article that uses accounting frameworks to determine what creates a competitive advantage in a cooperative business model. In particular, it investigates the influence of tangible, intangible and financial resources on the business performance of cooperatives operating in the Sicilian wine industry, with the RBV of the firms as a theoretical background. Using a linear regression model, our results show that tangible and financial resources are a source of a sustained competitive advantage. This study fills the gap existing in the strategic management literature related to the role of resources, tangible and intangible, in the cooperative system, providing both theoretical and practical implications.

Keywords: tangible resources; intangible resources; resource-based view; RBV; wine industry; competitive advantage; econometric model.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGSB.2019.103582

International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business, 2019 Vol.10 No.4, pp.324 - 337

Received: 07 Mar 2018
Accepted: 28 Sep 2018
Published online: 12 Nov 2019 *

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