Mid-sized Manufacturing Companies: The New Driver of Italian Competitiveness
The structure of Italian industry is characterized by a predominance of small sized companies and the presence of very few large companies. For a long time a conviction was shared among scholars and practitioners that the strength and safety of Italian in
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Sxi – Springer per l’Innovazione Sxi – Springer for Innovation Volume 7
Fulvio Coltorti • Riccardo Resciniti • Annalisa Tunisini • Riccardo Varaldo Editors
Mid-sized Manufacturing Companies: The New Driver of Italian Competitiveness
Editors Fulvio Coltorti Mediobanca Research Department Milan, Italy Riccardo Resciniti Department of Social, Juridical and Economic Systems (SEGIS) Università degli Studi del Sannio Benevento, Italy
Annalisa Tunisini Department of Economic Sciences and Business Management Università Cattolica Milan, Italy Riccardo Varaldo Institute of Management Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa, Italy
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Preface
This volume aims at diffusing at international level the issue of
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