This paper studies SMEs' participation in public procurement in light of perceived barriers
and expected benefits of accessing the public marketplace. It presents a comparative …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze how important is co-location of R&D and
production for firms originated from high-cost countries and to provide evidence of the …

Since 1990s, companies have started to shift their productions to the low-cost countries and
this strategy is commonly known as offshoring. However, over the past years, the evidence …

The paper explores reasons and critical factors of the back-reshoring strategies (defined as
voluntary corporate strategies to partially or totally relocate the industrial processes to its …

Il recente fenomeno del reshoring, ovvero del rientro in sede domestica di attività produttive
precedentemente delocalizzate in paesi a basso costo del lavoro, sta suscitando un …

More than a century ago, Alfred Marshall started to talk about “industrial districts”, defining
them as agglomerations of small and medium producers in a particular location, which in …

SUPPLY CHAIN www. europeanbusinessreview. com 113 contributed enormously to the
recovery of the US economy, so much that the companies that implemented it are …

La Collana di studi e ricerche del Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani del Politecnico
di Milano intende diffondere i risultati delle ricerche e le riflessioni generate all'interno del …

La moda made in Italy resta sempre nell'immaginario collettivo un emblema di stile ed
eleganza e il comparto tessile oltre a registrare un crescente volume di affari, rappresenta …

The Italian industrial structure is characterised by the importance of SMEs and their weighty
contribution in terms of employment, sales and exports. The international competitiveness of …