The 2007 financial crisis led to a steep decline in the supply of capital to organizations around the world. As liquidity dried up, countries such as Ireland with fragile and overextended credit environments, overpriced asset markets, and accommodative regulatory systems were vulnerable to the...

A number of economic development studies have examined established wine industries around the world using Porter's cluster model. This article uses Porter's cluster model to study the strengths and weaknesses of the Hudson River Valley wine region as it transitions from an agricultural cluster...