The Intangible assets into the wine business sector: a structured literature review
Wine is one of the most traditional products with high symbolic value and for some countries in the world is a carrier of community knowledge, embodying immaterial and intangible assets. Furthermore it generates income, employment, economic and social value. Through a review of the various contributions of the research strands, this work aims to highlight what have been, over the years, the most discussed issues, the research areas most investigated and those that have aroused less interest, so that any gaps may emerge in the current academic scenario. To comply the paper aim, a literature searches on Scopus has been conducted, using a set of selected keywords. This work uses a structured literature review (SLR) method proposed by Massaro et al. (2016) as was adapted by Paoloni and Demartini (2016). This paper contributes to extend the international literature through the construction of a comprehensive framework on the wine sector that, starting from the state of the art, highlights the contribution of intangible resources to the sector, as provides different input for future researches and analysis.