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Part of the book series: Contributions to Economics (CE)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Firm Ownership and District Organisation
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Internationalisation
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
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CERIS-DSE, National Research Council, Milan, Italy
Giulio Cainelli, Roberto Zoboli
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Evolution of Industrial Districts
Book Subtitle: Changing Governance, Innovation and Internationalisation of Local Capitalism in Italy
Editors: Giulio Cainelli, Roberto Zoboli
Series Title: Contributions to Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2700-2
Publisher: Physica Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7908-0095-1Published: 19 February 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-3-7908-2700-2Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1431-1933
Series E-ISSN: 2197-7178
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 347
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Industrial Organization, R & D/Technology Policy, Regional/Spatial Science