Small Firms And Industrial Districts In Italy

Author : Edward Goodman,Julia Bamford,Peter Saynor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134828128

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Small Firms and Industrial Districts in Italy by Edward Goodman,Julia Bamford,Peter Saynor Pdf

Originally published in 1989, this book was the first comprehensive and analytical account of the Italian small firm economy to appear in English. Dealing principally with the area of central and north-east Italy where small business flourishes, the book relates to the concentration of such companies to the concept of ‘industrial districts’ developed by Alfred Marshall, and provides both a theoretical and statistical basis for Italy in the latter part of the twentieth century. The success of Italian manufacturing is explained in terms of political and social factors as well as economic and technical ones and the working practices within the technology companies discussed.

Author : Ivana Paniccia
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111775370

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Industrial Districts by Ivana Paniccia Pdf

The multidisciplinary, quantitative approach adopted by the author, enables her to "de-structure" the "canonical" idea of the ID and evaluate the normative value. Supported by multivariate and econometric analyses, she identifies four general types of ID each with different development paths, performances, inter-organizational relations, and regulatory rules and institutions. The results demonstrate that IDs on average achieve better static or dynamic economic performance than non-ID areas. The analysis also highlights critical points of rupture in the socio-economic equilibrium of IDs which may impair their future competitiveness and social sustainability. The author offers a critical appraisal of the organizational literature on IDs, claiming for caution in their depiction as "cooperative systems" and goes on to present the first steps towards a "microfoundation" of a theory on IDs.

Author : Frank Pyke,Giacomo Becattini,Werner Sengenberger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043162390

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Industrial Districts and Inter-firm Co-operation in Italy by Frank Pyke,Giacomo Becattini,Werner Sengenberger Pdf

Author : Roberta Rabellotti
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349257942

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External Economies and Cooperation in Industrial Districts by Roberta Rabellotti Pdf

This book aims to explore the potential of the industrial district 'model' through the analysis of Italy, the 'land' of districts, and in Mexico, a less developed country. Empirical research assesses the extent to which the core characteristics of the 'model' correspond to the clusters analyzed. The investigation focuses upon external economies and cooperation which stem directly from the industrial district 'model', with particular emphasis upon the intense linkages existing within the clusters examined.

Author : Fernando G. Alberti
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781007709

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Entrepreneurial Growth in Industrial Districts by Fernando G. Alberti Pdf

Entrepreneurial Growth in Industrial Districts illustrates that Industrial Districts (ID) have dramatically changed over the past three decades; the Marshallian notion of a cluster of small firms has been vastly transformed by the emergence of rapidly growing firms.

Author : Paolo Guerrieri,Simona Iammarino,Carlo Pietrobelli
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822031594559

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The Global Challenge to Industrial Districts by Paolo Guerrieri,Simona Iammarino,Carlo Pietrobelli Pdf

Guerrieri (Institute for International Affairs (IAI), Rome, Italy) and his colleagues at the IAI examine the competitive strategies of small and medium enterprises in Taiwan and Italy as the forces of neoliberal globalization impact them. They discuss different strategies for firms to become and stay competitive with regard to geographical location and inter-firm linkage creation. Containing case studies of firms in textiles and clothing and in the electronic sector for Italy and Taiwan respectively, contributors conclude that the smaller scale Taiwanese electronics industry provides the best example of competitiveness in their ability to simultaneously develop domestic and international knowledge linkages. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Giulio Cainelli,Roberto Zoboli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783790827002

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The Evolution of Industrial Districts by Giulio Cainelli,Roberto Zoboli Pdf

Italian industrial districts (IDs) recently attracted international attention because their performance during the last few decades contradicted the alleged weakness of industrial structures based on SMEs in "traditional" sectors. The book analyses some developments taking place in Italian IDs and local systems of production that can represent a new stage of evolution for the backbone of the Italian economy. Based on the extensive use of original databases three main trajectories of change in IDs are presented. The first trajectory is the increasing role of "groups" of manufacturing SMEs arising from mergers and acquisitions as well as spin-off growth processes at the "family firms" level. The second one is the consolidation of innovation capabilities in IDs. And the third one is the internationalisation process of Italian IDs through both trade and foreign direct investment. The essays suggest that Italian IDs are again evolving by coherent adaptations which will have, however, uncertain outcomes.

Author : Fulvio Coltorti,Riccardo Resciniti,Annalisa Tunisini,Riccardo Varaldo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788847025899

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Mid-sized Manufacturing Companies: The New Driver of Italian Competitiveness by Fulvio Coltorti,Riccardo Resciniti,Annalisa Tunisini,Riccardo Varaldo Pdf

The structure of Italian industry is characterized by a predominance of small sized companies and the presence of very few large companies. For a long time a conviction was shared among scholars and practitioners that the strength and safety of Italian industry were based on its industrial districts, that is, the system of interdependent and co-localized small companies which derive their competitive force from an effective and efficient division of labour. This book stresses the idea that a new, vital and promising phenomenon for the competitiveness of Italian industry is focused on mid-sized companies, and the systems of interconnected firms that form a constituent part of their business model. These companies, which originate largely from districts and other local production systems, are a strong entrepreneurial force complementing the districts that have characterized Italy and made Italian industry famous worldwide. A quantitative and qualitative analysis of these firms is provided in this book. Business models and strategies implemented by a number of successful Italian mid-sized manufacturing companies are also explored. Consequences in terms of management and industrial policies are provided. A final look at the German Mittelstand gives a useful comparison.

Author : Giacomo Becattini,Marco Bellandi,Lisa De Propris
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781007808

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A Handbook of Industrial Districts by Giacomo Becattini,Marco Bellandi,Lisa De Propris Pdf

'A Handbook of Industrial Districts is a very well-organized and structured collection of scientific works on the theory of industrial districts.' - Roberta Capello, Regional Studies In this comprehensive original reference work, the editors have brought together an unrivalled group of distinguished scholars and practitioners to comment on the historical and contemporary role of industrial districts.

Author : Giacomo Becattini
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1782544003

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Industrial Districts by Giacomo Becattini Pdf

This book outlines the historical framework and the main concepts of the literature on industrial districts. It illustrates a new approach to the study of industrial development, based on well-known industrial districts analysis. Academics, politicians and students interested in local development and also industrial development will find much to learn in Industrial Districts, as will industrial geographers and historians of industry and of economic thought.

Author : Edward Goodman,Julia Bamford,Peter Saynor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134828050

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Small Firms and Industrial Districts in Italy by Edward Goodman,Julia Bamford,Peter Saynor Pdf

Originally published in 1989, this book was the first comprehensive and analytical account of the Italian small firm economy to appear in English. Dealing principally with the area of central and north-east Italy where small business flourishes, the book relates to the concentration of such companies to the concept of ‘industrial districts’ developed by Alfred Marshall, and provides both a theoretical and statistical basis for Italy in the latter part of the twentieth century. The success of Italian manufacturing is explained in terms of political and social factors as well as economic and technical ones and the working practices within the technology companies discussed.

Author : Giacomo Becattini
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026559091

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From Industrial Districts to Local Development by Giacomo Becattini Pdf

From Industrial Districts to Local Development introduces a set of papers representing the main contribution of the 'Florence school' to the recent literature on industrial districts. The authors illustrate that the revitalisation of the concept of industrial districts, returning to Alfred Marshall's nineteenth-century writings, is rooted in an unconventional interpretation of the economic development of Tuscany after the Second World War. Models of industrial organisation and empirical investigation of industrial tendencies are featured, and Alfred Marshall's concepts of the advantages of the geographical agglomeration of specialised small firms in industrial districts are reintroduced. The authors extend the analysis of purely economic effects of agglomeration, including social, cultural and institutional foundations of local development, and current case studies are presented. This book will appeal to scholars, lecturers and researchers focusing on industrial economics, development economics and economic geography. Its references to Italian political experiences will also be of interest to policymakers in both developed and developing countries.

Author : Sylvia Yanagisako
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691214221

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Producing Culture and Capital by Sylvia Yanagisako Pdf

Producing Culture and Capital is a major theoretical contribution to the anthropological literature on capitalism, as well as a rich case study of kinship and gender relations in northern Italy. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research on thirty-eight firms in northern Italy's silk industry, Sylvia Yanagisako illuminates the cultural processes through which sentiments, desires, and commitments motivate and shape capitalist family firms. She shows how flexible specialization is produced through the cultural dynamics of capital accumulation, management succession, firm expansion and diversification, and the reproduction and division of firms. In doing so, Yanagisako addresses two gaps in Marx's and Weber's theories of capitalism: the absence of an adequate cultural theory of capitalist motivation and the absence of attention to kinship and gender. By demonstrating that kinship and gender are crucial in structuring capitalist action, this study reveals these two gaps to be different facets of the same omission. A process-oriented approach to class formation and class subjectivity enables the author to incorporate the material and ideological struggles within families into an analysis of class-making and self-making. Yanagisako concludes that both "provincial" and "global" capitalist orientations and strategies operate in an industry that has always been integrated into regional and international relations of production and distribution. Her approach to culture and capitalism as mutually constituted processes offers an alternative to both universal models of capitalism as a mode of production and essentialist models of distinctive "cultures of capitalism."

Author : Fiorenza Belussi,Giorgio Gottardi,Enzo Rullani
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461503934

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The Technological Evolution of Industrial Districts by Fiorenza Belussi,Giorgio Gottardi,Enzo Rullani Pdf

Fiorenza Belussi, Giorgio Gottardi, and Enzo Rullani This volume collects some papers presented at the Vicenza conference "The Future of Districts", held in June 1999, organised by the Department of Technology and Management of Industrial Systems of the Faculty of Engineering of Padua University, with the collaboration of several engineers, industrial economists, and experts in the issue of technology management. This was the starting point of a long-lasting and painful colIective discussion, the results of which are documented here, during many meetings of this "itinerant" group, including the workshop in Padua, organised by Professor Luciano Pilotti and held in May 2001, "Systems, governance & knowledge within firm networks" at the Department of Economics of the University of Padua, and the recent international research seminar, held in May 2002, in Rome at the Tagliacarne Institute, within the EU sponsored project "Industrial districts' re location processes: identifying policies of EU enlargement West-East ID". The reason we decided to organise this book was not only to underline the importance of the industrial district (ID) model as a tool of propulsive local growth in a country like Italy. On the contrary, the idea that moved us was the theoretical dissatisfaction with the way in which the phenomenon of local development and industrial clustering of specific industries was treated in the international approach of the various disciplines.

Author : Fiorenza Belussi,Giorgio Gottardi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429861864

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Evolutionary Patterns of Local Industrial Systems by Fiorenza Belussi,Giorgio Gottardi Pdf

Pulished in 2000, a selection of contributions presented in 1998 at the conference of Udine entitled, "The Development of Industrial Districts in Italy". The theoretical aim of the book is to explain the dynamic mechanism of the growth of Italian "industrial districts" shifting attention from "Marshallian industrial districts", where focus is not just on the decentralization of production among small-batch firms. Determinant factors explaining growth seem related to the ways in which firms explore the markets, learn tacit knowledge, network with subcontractors and make incremental innovations. In substance, the work offers a cognitive approach to the issue of industrial districts.