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Entrepreneurial Marketing Practices and Rural Wine Producers’ Performance: The Moderating Role of Competitive Intensity in an Immediate Post Crisis Period

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posted on 2024-10-15, 16:29 authored by Ali Mahdi, David Crick, James Crick, Wadid Lamine, Martine Spence

This study unpacks the relationship between engaging in entrepreneurial marketing practices and firm performance under the moderating role of competitive intensity, in an immediate post-crisis (COVID-19) period. Following 20 field interviews, the model testing stage featured survey responses from owner-managers of 306 small, rural wine producers across multiple regions in the United States. Underpinned by a relational, stakeholder perspective of resource-based theory, alongside an outside-in lens, unique insights revealed that in aggregate terms, entrepreneurial marketing activities were positively and significantly associated with firm performance, while competitive intensity yielded a non-significant moderating effect. Importantly, a post-hoc test revealed that only certain dimensions of the multi-faceted entrepreneurial marketing construct were significantly associated with firm performance, whereby, competitive intensity played different moderating roles (exhibiting varying interaction effects). Implications arise for practitioners building resilience after an environmental shock, whereby, they are likely to need to pivot strategies while facing new degrees of competitive intensity.

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Author affiliation

College of Social Sci Arts and Humanities/School of Business

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

Published in

Journal of Rural Studies

Volume

108

Publisher

Elsevier

issn

0743-0167

eissn

1873-1392

Copyright date

2024

Available date

2024-10-15

Language

en

Deposited by

Dr James Crick

Deposit date

2024-04-09

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