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Evolution of Italian Enterprises in the 20th Century

Part of the book series: Contributions to Economics (CE)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
  2. The historiography

    • Renato Giannetti, Michelangelo Vasta
    Pages 1-14
  3. Industrial structure (1911–2001)

    • Giovanni Federico
    Pages 15-47
  4. The concentration of the industrial structure (1913–1971)

    • Renato Giannetti, Michelangelo Vasta
    Pages 49-61
  5. The demography of manufacturing firms (1911–1971)

    • Renato Giannetti, Margherita Velucchi
    Pages 63-86
  6. The largest 200 manufacturing firms (1913–2001)

    • Michelangelo Vasta
    Pages 87-110
  7. Ownership and control in Italian capitalism (1911–1972)

    • Leonardo Bargigli, Michelangelo Vasta
    Pages 111-152
  8. Firm performance (1900–1971)

    • Michelangelo Vasta
    Pages 153-189
  9. Business strategies from Unification up to the 1970s

    • Giovanni Federico, Pier Angelo Toninelli
    Pages 191-238
  10. Entrepreneurs and managers (1913–1972)

    • Alberto Rinaldi
    Pages 239-263
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 265-310

About this book

During the first two-thirds of the 20th century the themes of sectorial structure and compared performance prevail in Italian economic historiography. In the last part of the century, in contrast, attention is focused on the behavior of single economic actors and their micro-economic strategies. This book intends to act as a bridge between the two approaches, and reconstructs - through an original study based on a plurality of methodologies - the secular journey of Italian industrial enterprise, concentrating on the main themes that have characterized the historical and economic debate in the course of time: structural changes and economic growth relative to the succession of technological regimes, the comparison on an international scale, large and small enterprise, the organizational structure of ownership and control, the characteristics of entrepreneurs and managers and their strategies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Studi Storici e Geografici, Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy

    Renato Giannetti

  • Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università di Siena, Siena, Italy

    Michelangelo Vasta

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