In the wine industry, sustainability is an extremely important issue for two main reasons: Firstly, the industry faces serious threats as a consequence of climate change, as well as water and energy scarcity. Secondly, proper sustainable management of wineries can mean obtaining a competitive advantage by allowing them to increase market share and organizational innovation processes. In this sense, previous work has shown that customers tend to select wines that have been developed following sustainable practices, despite not knowing what this means in practice.

The Handbook of Research on Sustainability Challenges in the Wine Industry serves as a guide for study, reflection, and critique to understand sustainability in the wine industry in its triple aspect (economic, social, and environmental). The book sheds light on the new trends and challenges of the wine industry, making it a must-read for academicians and managers who want to deepen their knowledge of the wine industry as well as its link with sustainability. Covering key topics such as wine tourism, green innovation, and consumer behavior, this major reference work is ideal for industry professionals, business owners, managers, entrepreneurs, researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners, instructors, and students.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Business Environments
Circular Economy
Consumer Behavior
Green Innovation
Supply Chain Management
Sustainability
Wine
Wine Business
Wine Marketing
Wine Tourism

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Bartolomé Marco-Lajara (PhD) is Professor at the University of Alicante. His research interests are strategic management and tourism management. He is the author of several books, book chapters and international articles related to the areas above mentioned. He is a member of the Tourism Research Institute at the University of Alicante since its foundation and the main researcher of the European project ‘Next Tourism Generation Alliance’ at his University, as well as of the public competitive project for the creation of the Tourist Observatory of the Valencian Community (Spain). He has taken part in others public and private projects, such as the development of the strategic plan of the Alicante province for the period 2010-2020. He is the Head of the Department of Management at the University of Alicante, and previously was the Assistant Dean of the Economics Faculty for the Business Degree.

Armand Gilinsky, Jr . recently retired as Professor Emeritus of Business and as the F.J. Korbel and Bros. Professor of Wine Business at Sonoma State University, where he taught strategy and entrepreneurship since 1994. His most recent book is Business Strategy for a Better Normal (Springer, 2023). He was Director of SSU’s Entrepreneurship Center and Director of the Wine Business Institute. He previously held teaching appointments at the Harvard Business School, CSU East Bay, and Northeastern U. Dr. Gilinsky has extensive consulting experience in strategic planning, competitive strategy, and developing business and financial plans. He has authored over 50 published business case studies and articles on strategy and socially responsible entrepreneurship. In 2011, he was President of the North American Case Research Association, a group of some 500 case research professionals. In 2013, he received the University Award for Excellence in Scholarship from Sonoma State. He was the founding editor of the Wine Business Journal from 2014-2020. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Policy from Henley Business School/Brunel University (London), and the A.B. and A.M degrees rom Stanford U.

Javier Martínez Falcó is Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at the University of Alicante. In the field of research, he focuses his interest on issues related to the Strategic Management of the Company, specifically in the areas of Knowledge Management and Corporate Sustainability of wine companies, on which he has written several publications in the form of articles, book chapters and contributions to conferences. He has also participated in several national research projects and teaches Strategic Management on the ADE, TADE and DADE degree courses.

Eduardo Sánchez García works as Teaching and Research Staff (PDI) in the Department of Business Organisation at the University of Alicante, as an Assistant (LOU). He holds a PhD with international mention in the area of Business, Economics and Society. His research is in the field of strategic business management, specifically in the analysis of industrial agglomeration in territorial clusters, and its effect on the social capital, absorptive capacity and innovative performance of companies. In addition, he has carried out several works in collaboration with other researchers specialised in the study of industrial districts and entrepreneurial capabilities. He is a member of the research group “Strategic Management, Knowledge and Innovation in a Global Economy (DECI-GLOBAL)”. He has published several articles in indexed journals, as well as several book chapters, and has made numerous presentations at national and international scientific conferences. In relation to teaching, he teaches the subject of Strategic Management of the Company in the Degree in Business Administration and Management, and the double degrees in TADE, DADE and I2ADE.

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