In his attentive book “The Rise of the Network Society”, Manuel Castells (1996, Vol. 1)
argues that the forces of globalisation, the new information technology included, has …

The following study is concerned with an Italian industrial district that has been studied for a
period of 18 years. This has made possible the construction of a taxonomy based on …

Questo libro valorizza in misura intelligente e originale la crescita della media impresa in
Italia. Le analisi contenute nel volume raggiungono un obiettivo importante in un contesto …

Un manuale di geografia che si propone di superare le impostazioni ottocentesche di una
disciplina che è tornata a essere di grande attualità nell'epoca delle paure e delle incertezze …

Manufacturing internationalisation is a phenomenon that currently involves several industrial
districts. While the literature on industrial districts is wide, few works analyse the …

Industrial districts (Becattini, et al. 2003; Belussi, Gottardi and Rullani 2003) in the Third Italy,
which has been the paradigmatic example of localized learning and endogenous growth …

During the 1990s, we have observed a further development of the industrial district model in
Italy, and an intensification of the Italian local economies (IPI, 2002). This has occurred …

In today's highly competitive global markets, companies compete in conditions of extreme
economic, technological and socio-political instability. In many countries, because of the …

Global entrepreneurship defines the orientation of the firms in the direction of growing
interdependence and integration. On the contrary international entrepreneurship is just a …

Firms in industrial districts (hereafter 'district firms') are characterized by very complex
interactions. Thus, there is an innate level of indeterminacy, diversity, variety and pluralism …