Il Caso Italiano and globalization

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Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 85-104

  Berger, Suzanne ^a   Locke, Richard M ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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References (60)

1. Fabio Luca Cavazza and Stephen R. Graubard, eds., Il Caso Italiano (Milan: Garzanti, 1974).
2. Charles Kindleberger, "Economia al bivio," in Il Caso Italiano (ibid., 240-268.
3. Cavazza, "Logica italiana della sicurezza," in Il Caso Italiano (ibid., 22.
4. Suzanne Berger, "Uso politico e sopravvivenza dei ceti in declino," in Il Caso Italiano (ibid., 291-313.
5. Richard M. Locke, Remaking the Italian Economy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995).
6. Richard M. Locke, Remaking the Italian Economy (Ibid., chap. 3;
7. and Linda Weiss, Creating Capitalism (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988.)
8. Arnaldo Bagnasco, Tre Italie: la problematica territoriale dello sviluppo italiano (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1977);
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10. Carlo Trigilia, Grandi partiti e piccole imprese (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1986).
11. Robert D. Putnam, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993).
12. There is a vast literature on class conflict and the rise of fascism in regions like Emilia-Romagna and Reggio Emilia that today are the heartland of the industrial districts and "civic Italy." See, for example, Renato Zangheri, Lotte agrarie in Italia (Milan: Feltrinelli, 1960).
13. Sebastiano Brusco and Sergio Paba, "Per una storia dei distretti industriali italiani dal secondo dopoguerra agli anni novanta," in Fabrizio Barca, ed., Storia del capitalismo Italiano (Rome: Donzelli, 1997), 265-333.
14. They build on classifications developed by Fabio Sforzi, "The Quantitative Importance of Marshallian Industrial Districts in the Italian Economy," in Frank Pyke, Giacomo Becattini, and Werner Sengenberger, eds., Industrial Districts and Interfirm Cooperation in Italy (Geneva: International Institute for Labour Studies, 1990).
15. Brusco and Paba, "Per una storia," 265-333.
16. Brusco and Paba, "Per una storia," Ibid., 280-288, 304.
17. Michael Best, The New Competition: Institutions of Industrial Restructuring (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990);
18. also, Michael Piore and Charles Sabel, The Second Industrial Divide: Possibilities for Prosperity (New York: Basic Books, 1984);
19. Enzo Rullani, "Territorio e informazione: i sistemi locali come forme di organizzazione della complessita," Economia e politica industriale (45) (1985).
20. Trigilia, "Le subculture politiche territoriali" and Grandi partiti e piccole imprese;
21. Massimo Paci, Famiglia e mercato del lavoro in un'economia periferica (Milan: F. Angeli, 1980).
22. Sebastiano Brusco, "The Emilian Model: Productive Decentralisation and Social Integration," Cambridge Journal of Economics (6) (1982): 167-184;
23. Giacomo Beccatini and Enzo Rullani, "Sistema locale e mercato globale," Economia e politica industriale (80) (1993);
24. Vittorio Capecchi, "A History of Flexible Specialisation and Industrial Districts in Emilia-Romagna," in F. Pyke and W. Sengenberger, eds., Industrial Districts and Local Economic Regeneration (Geneva: International Institute for Labour Studies, 1992);
25. Giacomo Becattini, Distretti industriali e Made in Italy: Le basi socioculturali del nostro sviluppo economico (Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 1998).
26. On Biella, see Locke, Remaking the Italian Economy, 136-172;
27. and Arnaldo Camuffo and Anna Comacchio, Strategia e organizzazione nel tessile-abbigliamento (Padova: CEDAM, 1990).
28. L. Federico Signorini, "The Price of Prato, or Measuring the Industrial District Effect," Papers in Regional Science 73 (4) (1994): 369-392.
29. L. Federico Signorini, Papers in Regional Science Ibid., 375-378.
30. L. Federico Signorini, "L'effetto distretto," in L. Federico Signorini, ed., Lo Suiluppo Locale (Rome: Donzelli, 2000).
31. See in that volume particularly S. Fabiani, G. Pellegrini, E. Romagnano, and L. Federico Signorini, "L'efficienza delle imprese nei distretti industriali Italiani."
32. Banca d'Italia, Relazione del governatore, Assemblea Generale Ordinaria dei Partecipanti, Rome, 1997, 83.
33. Marco Fortis, Il Made in Italy (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1998).
34. Marco Fortis, Il Made in Italy Ibid., 121.
35. Becattini, Distretti industriali, 36, 126.
36. Piore and Sabel, The Second Industrial Divide;
37. Charles Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin, "Historical Alternatives to Mass Production," Past and Present 108 (August 1985).
38. For a critique of this optimism, see Bennett Harrison, Lean and Mean: The Changing Landscape of Corporate Power in the Age of Flexibility (New York: Basic Books, 1994).
39. Berger, "Uso politico e sopravvivenza dei ceti in declino"; Luigi Frey, ed., Lavoro a domicilio e decentramento dell'attivita produttiva nei settori tessile e dell abbigliamento in Italia (Milan: Franco Angeli, 1975);
40. Massimo Paci, La struttura sociale italiana: costanti storiche e trasformazioni recenti (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1982).
41. On the impact of Italian districts on research on industrialization in developing countries, see Hubert Schmitz and Khalid Nadvi, "Clustering and Industrialization: Introduction," in a special issue, "Industrial Clusters in Developing Countries," World Development 27 (9) (1999): 1503-1514.
42. Timothy Sturgeon, "Turn-Key Production Networks: A New American Model of Industrial Organization?" Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, Berkeley, Calif., 1997.
43. Gary Gereffi, "The Organization of Buyer-Driven Global Commodity Chains: How U.S. Retailers Shape Overseas Production Networks," in Gary Gereffi and Miguel Korzeniewicz, eds., Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1994), 95-122.
44. Michel Albert, Capitalisme contre Capitalisme (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1991);
45. David Soskice, "The Institutional Infrastructure for International Competitiveness: A Comparative Analysis of the U.K. and Germany," in Anthony B. Atkinson and Renato Brunetta, eds., The Economics of the New Europe: From Community to Union (London: Macmillan, 1991);
46. Wolfgang Streeck, Social Institutions and Economic Performance: Studies of Industrial Relations in Advanced Capitalist Economies (Beverly Hills: Sage, 1992).
47. Wolfgang Streeck, "German Capitalism: Does it Exist? Can it Survive?" in Colin S. Crouch, ed., Modern Capitalism or Modern Capitalisms? (London: Sage, 1997), 33-54.
48. AnnaLee Saxenian, Silicon Valley's New Entrepreneurs (Berkeley: Public Policy Institute, 1999).
49. Suzanne Berger and Richard K. Lester, eds., Made By Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1997).
50. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, International Statistics (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2000).
51. Fabiani, Pellegrini, Romagnoni, and Signorini, "L'efficienza delle imprese nei distretti industriali Italiani."
52. Harrison, Lean and Mean.
53. Mark H. Lazerson and Gianni Lorenzoni, "The Firms that Feed Industrial Districts: A Return to the Italian Source," Industrial and Corporate Change 8 (2) (1999): 235-266.
54. Signorini, "The Price of Prato."
55. Brusco and Paba, "Per una storia dei distretti industriali italiani dal secondo dopoguerra agli anni novanta," 329.
56. See Associazione Nazionale Fabbricanti Articoli Ottici, L'industria Italiana degli occhiali (Milan: ANFAO, 1999), on the glasses sector.
57. Signorini, "L'effetto dis'tretto," 33.
58. Marco Mutinelli and Lucia Piscitello, "Tipologie e determinanti degli investimenti diretti industriali italiani nei paesi dell'Europa centrale e orientale," L'industria, n.s., 28 (1) (January-March 1997): 89-118.
59. Research in progress at the Globalization Study, Industrial Performance Center, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.
60. Our thinking on complementarity as a globalization strategy has been much influenced by the dissertation research of Teresa Lynch.