Using longitudinal data on teams and quality competition results, this study examines the impact of team and task familiarity on brewing excellence in the Japanese sake industry from 1956 to 2018. Sake production involves teamwork at every stage, but while some teams work together long term,...

Based on the trust/commitment theory and the customer-based brand equity theory, this study aims to ascertain which of the brand equity drivers of A. Le Coq beer have an impact on attachment and its overall brand equity in the Estonian brewery market. In order to achieve this goal, an empirical...

This special issue follows our conference, which was held in October 2021 and attended by beer historians and sociologists from the U.S., Europe and Australia. By taking beer as a lens to approach questions of knowledge transfer and circulation, we seek to refine our historical understanding of...

Brewed in 50 countries and consumed in 150, Guinness Stout has become a global commodity. Although associated with Irish pubs and diasporic populations, it has also become popular in former British colonies of Africa and Southeast Asia. This article adopts a mobility studies perspective to show...

This article traces the development of brewing and the transfer of knowledge in Mandatory Palestine. Brewing in Palestine proceeded under the watchful eye of the mandate government. Although the reluctance of the British to endorse local enterprises inhibited the progress of beer production in...

The Mexican beer industry in general, and advertising in particular, contained both international and national influences. The industry transitioned from significant inputs of capital, technology, and expertise by foreigners during the Porfiriato (1876-1911) to locals carrying out these...

This article focuses on how Mexico's brewers, backed by a collaboration of U.S. and Mexican agronomists and officials who together developed the foundations of the Green Revolution, facilitated the centralization of decision-making over new technologies of production in the malt barley industry...

By examining the horizontal and vertical, international knowledge and technology transfer of specific industrial water-treatment-technologies, this paper reflects on their interaction with beer production. Against the background of the discrepancy between the importance of narratives on...

As the brewing industry underwent major changes and brewing became ever more science-based in the course of the 19 th century, the need for a more science-based brewer's education grew. The article explores the reforms and diversification of brewing education, starting with the traditional way...

Decades before beer brewing transformed into a truly global industry toward the end of the nineteenth century, Central Europe - primarily the Habsburg monarchy and the German states - emerged as a sort of laboratory in which networks were forged, new inventions tested, new beer sorts copied, and...

We investigate the impact of beer on mortality during the Industrial Revolution in 18th century England. Due to the brewing process, beer represented an improvement over available water sources during this period prior to the widespread understanding of the link between water quality and human...

This paper explores how Ontario's craft brewers created new as well as disrupted and changed existing institutions at local and regional levels in the province's beer industry. Using a relational economic geography framework and a markets-as-practices perspective, this study highlights the...

This paper investigates the growth and clustering of craft breweries in New Jersey. We compiled a historical dataset from 1995 to 2020 that allows us to measure the degree of geographic clustering among craft breweries in New Jersey. The number of craft breweries in New Jersey grew 491% from...

Using newly released public data on beer prices in the state of California, we construct a large dataset (approximately 2 million observations) that includes beer prices and packaging configurations. We merge this dataset with brewery attributes and county demographics to explore pricing...

This paper evaluates the impact on prices of the 2013 merger between Anheuser-Busch InBev(ABI) and Grupo Modelo and the associated court-required divestiture of Grupo Modelo’s US business to Constellation. We use difference-in-differences and event study regressions to capture firms' price...

Corporate community engagement strategy is useful means of evaluating community needs. This study examines the practice of corporate community engagement strategy of local brewery companies in Ethiopia based on Bowel et al., 2010 model. Mixed method was employed and 718 data was collected from...

Another quiet revolution is taking place in the alcoholic beverage markets: a trend toward lower-alcohol and even no-alcohol beverages, especially in the world's higher-income countries. This new trend adds to the long-term consumer trend in affluent countries of substituting quality for...

Consumers tend to choose stores on the basis of "destination categories", or categories that tend to be relatively important attractors relative to others. Whether or not a category is truly important to attracting incremental market share, however, is a difficult empirical question, because...

Database and methodology -- Socio-economic and ecological dimensions of coffee production in Kodagu -- Factors influencing the productivity of Arabica and Robusta varieties of coffee -- The coffee white stem borer (xylotrechus quadripes) and its impact on Arabica variety of coffee -- The...

This paper studies the 2008 MillerCoors joint venture in the U.S. beer industry through a vertically related market framework. The cost efficiency and increased upstream market power impacts of this merger are quantitively measured and, more importantly, the effect of downstream concentration on...

The interest by consumers in the coffee house industry is sweeping the country. DUNGOG Cafe is positioned to bring this to the Busay Hills, Cebu City area. It is a spot frequented by both locals and tourists for its captivating beauty, cool air, and peaceful vibe. It is also the highest point...

Though U.S. antitrust authorities have historically focused on prices in merger analyses, there is now growing interest in the impact of mergers on non-price market outcomes. In this paper, we examine the effect of horizontal mergers on product variety in the U.S. beer industry. Upon acquisition...

Human social affairs are important elements to advertising, propelling advertisers to lure consumers into phenomena in the social system. Thus, the study examined the applications of the social events to captivate consumers as propagated in the advertisements of Star®, Heineken®, Maltina® and...

Prolamins have attracted increasing attention in recent years because of their potential application in active ingredient encapsulation and food packaging. As a byproduct in the Baijiu brewing industry with huge production (40 million tons every year), Jiuzao is a great source of prolamin...