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Mid-sized Manufacturing Companies: The New Driver of Italian Competitiveness (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
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Mid-sized Manufacturing Companies: The New Driver of Italian Competitiveness (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
Series: SxI - Springer for Innovation / SxI - Springer per l'Innovazione, 7
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The structure of the Italian industry is characterized by the
prevailing of small sized companies and the presence of very few
large companies. For a long time a shared conviction was diffused
among scholars and practitioners that the strength and the safety
of Italian industry were based on the industrial districts, i.e. a
system of interdependent and co-localized small companies deriving
their competitive power from an effective and efficient division of
labor. This book stresses the idea that the new, vital and
promising phenomenon for the competitiveness of the Italian
industry is now that centered on the mid-sized companies and on the
system of their interconnected firms that represent a constituent
part of their business model. Mid-sized companies, frequently
emerging from the context of an industrial district, that have
grown and developed internationally thanks to an original business
model that combines the advantages of both the large and the small
size. These companies do represent a strong entrepreneurial force
that accompanies the district force that has characterized and made
famous the Italian industry worldwide. The book analyzes the
business models and the strategies implemented by a number of
Italian successful mid-sized companies that have registered very
high growth rate in the period 2006-2008 and had then to face the
dramatic changes of the economic and competitive context. A
quantitative and qualitative analysis of the phenomenon of the
mid-sized companies is reported in the book with consequences in
terms of management and industrial policies. The book is structured
in three parts: the first part introduces the debate existing in
literature on the role of the mid-sized companies, setting the
basis for the guidelines and the interpretative framework developed
in the book. The second part gives a quantitative interpretation of
the phenomenon, analyzing the Italian mid-sized companies according
to their competitive and financial performances. The third part of
the book deeps into the details of the business models of 23
mid-sized companies focalizing on their: trajectories of growth;
competitive and innovation strategies; inter-organizational
network, international strategies and positioning.
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