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Di Giacinto, Valter, Matteo Gomellini, Giacinto Micucci, and Marcello Pagnini. "Mapping local productivity advantages in Italy: industrial districts, cities or both?" Journal of Economic Geography 14, no. 2 (July 12, 2013): 365–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbt021.

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Bartlett, Will, John Cable, Saul Estrin, Derek C. Jones, and Stephen C. Smith. "Labor-Managed Cooperatives and Private Firms in North Central Italy: An Empirical Comparison." ILR Review 46, no. 1 (October 1992): 103–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001979399204600108.

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The authors analyze the differences between the behavior of private firms and that of producer cooperatives in a matched sample of the two organizational types from the regions of Emilia Romagna and Toscana in North-Central Italy, where producer cooperatives are numerous. Individual firm-level surveys provide new detailed comparative data on key issues such as investment, productivity, wages, employment, and industrial relations. Differences between the two types of firm are found in labor relations, employment, pay, production methods, the relationship to the external market environment, and the level of economic performance. The authors find no significant differences in investment horizons or criteria for finance, despite theoretical assertions to the contrary. The cooperatives apparently have higher productivity, more labor-intensive production methods, lower income differentials, and a more tranquil industrial relations environment than the private firms.
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Coccia, Mario. "A New Approach for Measuring and Analysing Patterns of Regional Economic Growth: Empirical Analysis in Italy." SCIENZE REGIONALI, no. 2 (July 2009): 71–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/scre2009-002004.

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- This paper presents a new approach that measures and analyses the economic growth of regions in relation to a macro-system. The primary findings are that southern and central regions of Italy have different spatial patterns and magnitudes of relative economic growth in comparison with the North of Italy. More specifically, the morphology of the growth shows that several regions have a negative disproportionate economic growth (allometry) when compared to the North of Italy. These are important results for policy makers, who should balance these regional inequalities. In particular, economic and industrial policies should boost regional economic development through an increase in regional productivity, which is positively affected by R&D activities, human capital and infrastructures of neighbouring regions.Keywords: Regional economic growth, regional inequalities, italian regions.JEL classification: O10, O47, R11
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Claver-Cortés, Enrique, Bartolomé Marco-Lajara, Pedro Seva-Larrosa, and Lorena Ruiz-Fernández. "Competitive advantage and industrial district." Competitiveness Review: An International Business Journal 29, no. 3 (May 20, 2019): 211–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/cr-08-2018-0048.

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Purpose This paper aims to know the dimension and scope that research on the district effect has had in the literature about industrial districts, as well as to shed some light on the connection between industrial districts and business results; or expressed differently, on how being located in an industrial district or not affects or might influence the performance of the firms located therein. Design/methodology/approach The purpose of this paper has been achieved through an exhaustive review of the empirical literature dedicated to the so-called district effect. The papers selected in the analysis were selected on the basis of the following criteria: (1) publications in scientific journals; (2) studies carried out in Spain and Italy; and (3) works published between 1994 and 2017. Findings The outcome of the literature review suggests, on the one hand, that the debate on the extent to which the territory influences the competitiveness of firms located in industrial districts still remains a topic of great interest. It can additionally be observed that most of the works dedicated to measuring the district effect have done so using three dimensions: (1) productivity/efficiency; (2) international competitiveness; and (3) innovation. Practical implications From a theoretical perspective, the findings of this paper make it possible to carry out an integrating proposal for the measurement of the district effect which revolves around three dimensions (productivity/efficiency; international competitiveness; and innovation). Originality/value This paper makes a twofold contribution to the literature: (i) it brings together the most important empirical contributions that measure the competitive advantages obtained by firms located in industrial districts through the district effect; and (ii) it theoretically and empirically establishes the essential dimensions of that effect.
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Capone, Francesco, and Niccolò Innocenti. "Open innovation and network dynamics. An analysis of openness of co-patenting collaborations in Florence, Italy." Competitiveness Review: An International Business Journal 30, no. 4 (April 23, 2020): 379–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/cr-10-2019-0101.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relational dynamics for innovation and, in particular, the impact of the openness of innovation process on the innovation capacity of organisations in restricted geographical contexts. Design/methodology/approach Through a negative binomial regression, the work analyses how the characteristics of the openness of the organisation’s innovation process in the period 2004-2010 influence the firm’s patent productivity in the following period (2011-2016). Findings The breadth of the open innovation (OI) process, here measured by the number of external network ties that an organisation realises for the realisation of its patents, has a positive effect on patent productivity. The depth of the openness, that is, the intensity of external network ties, has an equally positive influence on the innovative performance. However, after a tipping point, the patent productivity tends to decrease, underlining the costs and problems of OI practices. Research limitations/implications This study considers only patent collaborations in the city of Florence. Therefore, it focusses on codified innovations and on a single territorial case study. Practical implications The results underline the importance of the adoption of OI practices in restricted geographical contexts (such as cities, clusters or industrial districts) but with several limitations. Only collaborating more with others does not foster the organisation’s invention productivity, but different types of evidence are found here. Originality/value An original database has been created, containing all the information on patents realised in the area of Florence from 2004 until 2016, and a social networks analysis was applied to identify the local innovation networks.
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NEGRELLI, SERAFINO, and ANDREA SIGNORETTI. "BETWEEN BERLUSCONI AND MONTI: TRADE UNIONS AND ECONOMIC CRISIS IN ITALY." Singapore Economic Review 59, no. 04 (September 2014): 1450031. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0217590814500313.

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The recent labor reforms implemented in Italy by the so-called "technocratic" Monti Government have challenged the traditional role of trade unions. On one side, the reforms in the pension and labor market have been approved without real consultation or bargaining with social parties, under the pressures from the financial and economic crisis and the austerity demanded by the EU central authorities. On the other side, the Government is urging trade unions to contribute to stimulating labor productivity in order to produce more growth and escape from such a long period of recession. The main aim of this article is to analyze the changing role of trade unions and then the real opportunities to open a new phase of social concertation, also taking into account the historical background of Italian industrial relations.
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Antonioli, Davide, Massimiliano Mazzanti, and Paolo Pini. "Productivity, innovation strategies and industrial relations in SMEs. Empirical evidence for a local production system in northern Italy." International Review of Applied Economics 24, no. 4 (July 2010): 453–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02692171.2010.483790.

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TIRABOSCHI, MICHELE. "Industrial Doctorates, apprenticeships for research, on the job training. The Italian case in the international and comparative context." Revista Jurídica de Investigación e Innovación Educativa (REJIE Nueva Época), no. 11 (January 1, 2015): 25–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.24310/rejie.2015.v0i11.7705.

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This pioneering work provides a systemic and comparative analysis of on-the-job training and research in Italy. This is done through an examination of industrial PhDs and apprenticeships for research purposes, which also takes account of the complex relations between businesses, tertiary education, and the labour market. To this end, the paper discusses the relationship between universities and employers, which is usually investigated through a perspective that only considers PhDs’ employability. Although a long-established research strand at both national and supranational level, the author tries to move away from this approach, questioning the effects that these new arrangements might have on productivity and the employers’ innovation capability in Italy. Cooperative research, and industrial and professional doctorates have been extensively covered in international literature. On the contrary, little interest has been shown towards industrial PhDs in Italy, even following the enforcement of Art. 11, par. 2 of Ministerial Decree No. 45 of 8 February 2013. A year since the Decree’s entry into force has elapsed, yet uncertainty still lingers over how to implement these innovative doctoral programmes. Consequently, this analysis sets out to be a first attempt at analyzing industrial PhDs, drawing on a comparison with those countries where they have been in place for a long time. The paper identifies a number of obstacles which act as stumbling blocks to the implementation of on-the -job training in higher education: the absence of placement services in the planning of training schemes and little commitment on the part of industrial relations actors. These shortcomings are the same which hamper the diffusion of apprenticeship schemes –including those for research purposes– which are decisive to fill the void between education and the labour market.
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De Sio, Francesco, Luca Sandei, Francesco De Giorgi, Mariateresa Rapacciuolo, Alessio Tallarita, Giuseppe Morano, Antonio Cuciniello, Eugenio Cozzolino, Vincenzo Cenvinzo, and Gianluca Caruso. "Yield and quality performances of organic tomato as affected by genotype and industrial processing in southern Italy." Italus Hortus 27 (April 2020): 85–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.26353/j.itahort/2020.1.8599.

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Identifying new tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) genotypes with improved technological performances is an important requisite for achieving high yield and quality of industrial produce. An open-field experiment was carried out in southern Italy in order to assess the effects of three elongated tomato hybrids oriented to ‘peeled’ chain (Max 14802, Massaro, Taylor) in terms of crop productivity and nutritional value. The hybrid Taylor showed the highest marketable yield due to the highest fruit number, whereas Massaro showed the highest processing efficiency. Among the three genotypes compared, titratable acidity and fiber were highest in Max 14802 fruits (0.45 g anhydrous citric acid·100 g-1 and 0.94 g·100 g-1 respectively), Taylor was best ranking in terms of fat and sucrose content, and Massaro achieved the highest glucose, fructose and rutin accumulation. Compared to fresh fruits, peeled tomatoes attained higher values of total and soluble solids, reducing sugars, total polyphenols (referred to fresh weight), rutin and naringenin, but had a decreased value of colour coordinate a/b ratio. No significant differences between the three tomato cultivars were recorded in terms of sensorial traits. From the present research interesting clues have arisen regarding the best performances of the hybrid Taylor in terms of fruit yield and organic acid content, and of the hybrid Massaro regarding the processing efficiency and fruit health-beneficial properties.
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Ceccarelli, Marco. "Analyzing a Robotized Workcell to Enhance Robot’s Operation." Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics 11, no. 1 (February 20, 1999): 67–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/jrm.1999.p0067.

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This paper analyzes robotized manipulation in the production of TV screens in a Videocolor plant in Anagni. A general procedure for manipulation analysis, based on the elementary actions concept, was applied to the study of robotized workcell performance and parameters. Manipulation analysis is presented as a practical application to stress its feasibility for practicing engineers. Kinescope manipulation by an industrial robot in a robotized workcell was analyzed and critical movement recognized and numerically evaluated. We also focused on performance and design parameters of workcell operation to significantly improve productivity through adjustments in robot and workcell programming and by slightly redesigning the workcell. This work was done under a research contract supported by Videocolor Ltd., Anagni, Italy, and results implemented in a new robotized workcell.
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Giugliano, Ferdinando. "Industrial policy and productivity growth in Fascist Italy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:982ff041-a460-4d62-9973-d6431b6b3092.

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The first chapter - Crisis? Which Crisis? - constructs a new series of industrial value added at constant (1938) prices for Italy, for the period between 1928 and 1938. The data employed are shown to be better indicators of the dynamic of the Great Depression than those used by Carreras and Felice (2010) and allow to substantially revise the profile of the Crisis. The contraction appears to be more pronounced and persistent, placing the Italian experience more in line with that of other industrialised countries. The second chapter - The Italian Climacteric - presents new estimates of total factor productivity growth for Italy over the Fascist era and compares them with analogous ones for the pre-World War One period and for Germany and Britain. Because of the absence of a fully reliable GDP series, a dual growth accounting framework is employed. This approach permits the incorporation of new data on land rents and of new evidence on the returns to human capital. Results show that during the interwar era Italy experienced a “climacteric", defined as a cessation of TFP growth, which compares poorly with the coeval performance of Britain and Germany. This disappointing result contrasts vividly with what occurred in the late liberal Italy, when TFP grew less quickly than in Germany, but faster than in Britain. The third chapter - A Tale of Two Fascisms - offers the first quantitative assessment of labour productivity dynamics within the Italian industrial sector and of their links with Fascist competition policy. We argue that the institutional context in which Italian firms operated and, in particular, changes in the level of product market competition had a significant effect in determining their productivity performance. By relying on a new dataset and on new labour productivity estimates, we show that the earlier more liberal period of the Fascist era was characterised by a true productivity boom, which ended following the switch to a more interventionist industrial policy. Panel data evidence shows that reductions in the level of competition in the industrial sector were associated with lower productivity growth, while changes in industrial structure were a less significant factor.
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LENA, DANIELA. "Essays on Sustainable Economic growth and Efficiency." Doctoral thesis, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/11566/306201.

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L'emergenza climatica e l'esaurimento ambientale sono diventati problemi importanti per i paesi delle Nazioni Unite e i governi singolarmente stanno imponendo politiche di regolamentazione ambientale rigorose per muoversi verso una crescita sostenibile. In questo scenario, perseguire una crescita verde richiede alle imprese l'adozione di nuove strategie in termini di risparmio energetico, utilizzo di fonti rinnovabili e adozione di processi produttivi sostenibili. Questi cambiamenti hanno delle conseguenze economiche significative per le imprese e le industrie coinvolte. Tuttavia, pochi studi si sono occupati del ruolo della regolamentazione ambientale a livello settoriale. Attraverso la nostra ricerca, contribuiamo a questo filone di studio, indagando le conseguenze della regolamentazione ambientale sulla produttività a livello industrial in Italia e in Europa. Questa tesi si focalizza nello studio dell'effetto di questi strumenti sulla produttività misurando la crescita della produttività rettificata in tredici industrie manifatturiere Italiane e successivamente, il campione è stato ampliato includendo altri quattro paesi dell'UE. La crescita della produttività viene misurata utilizzando l'indice Malmquist-Luenberger, il quale si basa sulla funzione Directional Distance Function (DDF). Il principale risultato dell'indagine nel contesto italiano, è che la regolamentazione ambientale non ha un impatto negativo in quasi tutti i settori. Per valutare la solidità dei risultati stimati abbiamo utilizzato la tecnica di bootstrapping, la quale conferma la solidità della nostra ricerca. Invece, nel contesto europeo, troviamo che le normative ambientali hanno un effetto negativo sulla crescita della produttività in diverse industrie del settore manifatturiero per quasi tutti i paesi Europei inclusi nell'analisi.
The climate emergency and environmental depletion have become important issues for United Nations countries, and Governments are imposing stringent environmental regulation policies to move towards sustainable growth. In this scenario, pursuing green growth requires firms to adopt new strategies in terms of energy saving, the use of renewable power sources, and the adoption of sustainable production processes. These changes have significant economic consequences for firms and industries, as recent and large literature has pointed out. However, few studies have dealt with the role of environmental regulation at the sectoral level. This dissertation contributes to this topic by investigating how environmental regulation affects productivity at the sectoral level in a sample of selected European economies. It studies the effect of these instruments on productivity by measuring the adjusted productivity growth in thirteen Italian manufacturing industries and enlarged the sample by including other four EU countries. Productivity growth is measured using the Malmquist-Luenberger index, which is based on the Directional Distance Function (DDF). The main result of the Italian context investigation is that environmental regulation does not have a negative impact on almost all industries. A bootstrapping approach has been then used to assess the robustness of estimated results. Instead, in the European context, we find environmental regulations have a negative effect on productivity growth in several industries in the manufacturing sector for almost all the countries included in the analysis.
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LOPEZ, NOVO Joaquin Pedro. "El territorio como fuente de estructura economica y modo de regulacion de la economia : Un estudio comparado de los distritos industriales italianos." Doctoral thesis, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5267.

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Defence date: 19 December 1988
Examining board: Prof. Philippe C. Schmitter (Stanford University/European University Institute)(Supervisor) ; Prof. Víctor Pérez Díaz (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) ; Prof. Bernd Marin (European Centre for Social Welfare Research, Vienna) ; Prof. Carlo Trigilia (Università degli Studi di Palermo)
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Books on the topic "Industrial productivity – Italy"

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Brandolini, Andrea. Multifactor productivity and labour quality in Italy, 1981-2000. [Roma]: Banca d'Italia, 2001.

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Blasio, Guido De. Seasonality and capacity: An application to Italy. [Roma]: Banca d'Italia, 2001.

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Marco, Malgarini, and Piga Gustavo 1964-, eds. Capital accumulation, productivity and growth: Monitoring Italy 2005. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

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Federico, Barbiellini Amidei, ed. The dynamics of knowledge externalities: Localized technological change in Italy. Cheltenham, Glos, UK: Edward Elgar, 2011.

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Schiantarelli, Fabio. The maturity structure of debt: Determinants and effects on firms' performance : evidence from the United Kingdom and Italy. Washington, DC: World Bank, Policy Research Dept., Finance and Private Sector Development Division, 1997.

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Garofalo, Giuseppe, ed. Capitalismo distrettuale, localismi d'impresa, globalizzazione. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-8453-605-1.

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From the late Sixties on, industrial development in Italy evolved through the spread of small and medium sized firms, aggregated in district networks, with an elevated propensity to enterprise and the marked presence of owner-families. Installed within the local systems, the industrial districts tended to simulate large-scale industry exploiting lower costs generated by factors that were not only economic. The districts are characterised in terms of territorial location (above all the thriving areas of the North-east and Centre) and sector, since they are concentrated in the "4 As" (clothing-fashion, home-decor, agri-foodstuffs, automation-mechanics), with some overlapping with "Made in Italy". How can this model be assessed? This is the crucial question in the debate on the condition and prospects of the Italian productive system between the supporters of its capacity to adapt and the critics of economic dwarfism. A dispassionate judgement suggests that the prospects of "small is beautiful" have been superseded, but that the "declinist" view, that sees only the dangers of globalisation and the IT revolution for our SMEs is risky. The concept of irreversible crisis that prevails at present is limiting, both because it is not easy either to "invent", or to copy, a model of industrialisation, and because there is space for a strategic repositioning of the district enterprises. The book develops considerations in this direction, showing how an evolution of the district model is possible, focusing on: gains in productivity, scope economies (through diversification and expansion of the range of products), flexibility of organisation, capacity to meld tradition and innovation aiming at product quality, dimensional growth of the enterprises, new forms of financing, active presence on the international markets and valorisation of the resources of the territory. It is hence necessary to reactivate the behavioural functions of the entrepreneurs.
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Amidei, Federico Barbiellini, and Cristiano Antonelli. Dynamics of Knowledge Externalities: Localized Technological Change in Italy, 195-1992. Elgar Publishing Limited, Edward, 2011.

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(Editor), Marco Malgarini, and Gustavo Piga (Editor), eds. Capital Accumulation, Productivity and Growth: Monitoring Italy 2005 (Central Issues in Contemporary Economic Theory and Policy). Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

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Iuzzolino, Giovanni, Guido Pellegrini, and Gianfranco Viesti. Regional Convergence. Edited by Gianni Toniolo. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199936694.013.0020.

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In 150 years, the trends in regional disparities in economic development within Italy have differed depending on whether they are gauged by longitude or by latitude. The disparities between western and eastern regions first widened and then closed; the North-South gap, by contrast, remains the main open problem in the national history of Italy. This chapter focuses on the underlying causes of the turning points in regional disparities since national unification in 1861. The first came in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, with the industrialization of the so-called "industrial triangle". This was followed by the "failed new turn" during the interwar years: not only were the beginnings of convergence blocked, but the North-South gap, until then still natural, inevitably, was transformed into a fracture of exceptional dimensions. The second turning point, in the twenty years after the World War, produced the first substantial, lasting convergence between southern and northern Italy, powered by rising productivity and structural change in the South. The last turning point was in the mid-1970s, when convergence was abruptly halted and a protracted period of immobility in the disparity began.
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Amatori, Franco, Matteo Bugamelli, and Andrea Colli. Technology, Firm Size, and Entrepreneurship. Edited by Gianni Toniolo. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199936694.013.0016.

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Firms are one of the main characters of any economy and an excellent observatory for monitoring a nation's evolution. The history of Italy's productive system in the last 150 years is divided into three parts, corresponding to a similar number of industrial revolutions. While firms obtained excellent results in the first two, their inability to grow further inhibited the wide use of the Third Industrial Revolution's features, information and communication technologies. This became a serious obstacle for Italy reaching the international economic frontier. There are many causes-political and economic, macro and microeconomic, domestic and international-behind the turnaround in Italy's economic performance, but the key one was firm size. The argument is developed along three steps. First: firm size is positively correlated to innovation, internationalization, adoption of advanced technologies, and ability to face new competitive challenges; larger firms record higher productivity both in levels and growth rates. Second: the distribution of firms in terms of dimensions was adequate until the 1970s, but defective later on. Finally: because firm size is not a given (but an endogenous choice of entrepreneurs), this chapter examines some key entrepreneurs and managers so as to identify the main features of Italian entrepreneurship.
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Book chapters on the topic "Industrial productivity – Italy"

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Manzini, Paola, and Massimo Tivegna. "Industrial Prices, Service Prices and Unemployment in Italy and Germany." In The Service Sector: Productivity and Growth, 69–101. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag HD, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49999-9_4.

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Morgan, Kevin, Terry Marsden, and Jonathan Murdoch. "The Commodity World in Wales." In Worlds of Food. Oxford University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199271580.003.0014.

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As the first industrial nation, the UK was one of the earliest countries to experience the industrialization of agriculture, a process that led to an unprecedented increase in productivity, with more and more food produced by fewer and fewer people. Early exposure to intensive food production clearly left an abiding cultural legacy; to this day, one of the proudest boasts of the British food industry is that it renders cheap food to the consuming public at ever lower prices. This production ethos was both cause and consequence of a mainstream consumption culture which sets a high premium on price and treats food more as fuel than as pleasure. In his thousandyear history of British food, Spencer (2002) caught this aesthetic perfectly when he suggested that the British ‘were unexcited by the food they ate, but they knew that they had to get on and eat the wretched stuff’. In its attachment to cheap, processed food, the UK is far closer to the US, the quintessential fast-food nation, than to Italy, France, or Spain, countries where there continues to be a strong cultural appetite for fresh, local, and seasonal food. Although Britain’s cheap-food culture has complex and manifold causes, its origins lie in the early period of industrialization, especially in the system of colonial preferences from the Commonwealth countries, which created a low-cost template for locally produced food. In other words, the global–local interplay that did so much to shape economy and society in Britain also influenced the economics of food production and the culture of food consumption. To a greater extent than in other European countries, the supermarkets have become the key players in shaping food consumption patterns in the UK. As in California, retailer power is now the key to understanding the enormous asymmetries of power that punctuate the British agri-food chain from farm to fork. One reason why supermarkets seem to wield so much more power in the UK than their analogues in other countries is that there is less countervailing power at the production end of the UK food chain.
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