International perspectives on backwards vertical integration

Alfredo Coelho (1) , Etienne Montaigne (2, 3)

1 Bordeaux Sciences Agro - Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Sciences Agronomiques de Bordeaux-Aquitaine
2 UMR MOISA - Marchés, Organisations, Institutions et Stratégies d'Acteurs
3 Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier

This chapter provides a broad understanding of the motivations and debates related to vertical integration backwards, through concrete examples or practical cases. Vertical integration backwards in the wine industry was extensively discussed in the literature (see, e.g. Sidlovits and Kator 2007). However, those contributions focus on one region or country or a particular type of firm (e.g. wine co-operatives). Without pretending to cover all the dimensions of vertical integration, we introduce hereafter, through several examples, the causes or consequences that lead firms to practice vertical integration.

Domaines: Economies et finances

Alfredo Coelho, Etienne Montaigne. International perspectives on backwards vertical integration. The palgrave handbook of wine industry economics, Palgrave Macmillan, 542 p., 2019, 978-3-319-98632-6. ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-98633-3_23⟩. ⟨hal-02788212⟩