Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Giacomo Becattini Title: Giorgio Fu?: maestro di studi economici Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages: Volume: 2000/107 Year: 2000 Issue:107 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=15319&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:polipo:v:html10.3280/Poli2000-107001 Number: 1 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sergio Vacc? Title: L'economia degli Usa nello sviluppo delle tecnologie dell'informazione Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages: Volume: 2000/107 Year: 2000 Issue:107 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=15320&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:polipo:v:html10.3280/Poli2000-107002 Number: 2 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mario Centorrino Title: Perch? no? Il problema dei distretti industriali visto dalla Sicilia Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages: Volume: 2000/107 Year: 2000 Issue:107 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=15321&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:polipo:v:html10.3280/Poli2000-107003 Number: 3 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alfredo Del Monte Title: Quali distretti industriali per il Mezzogiorno Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages: Volume: 2000/107 Year: 2000 Issue:107 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=15322&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:polipo:v:html10.3280/Poli2000-107004 Number: 4 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Enzo Rullani Title: Dimenticare Christaller Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages: Volume: 2000/107 Year: 2000 Issue:107 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=15323&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:polipo:v:html10.3280/Poli2000-107005 Number: 5 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marco Delmastro Author-Name: Massimo G. Colombo Title: Le determinanti dell'inerzia strutturale della gerarchia manageriale: fattori tecnologici ed organizzativi Abstract: Le determinanti dell'inerzia strutturale della gerarchia manageriale: fattori tecnologici ed organizzativi (di Massimo G. Colombo, Marco Delmastro) - ABSTRACT: The present paper aims at studying the determinants of organizational change by looking at the evolution of the organizational structure of a sample of Italian metalworking plants. Evidence shows that organizational factors, such as the size of the bureaucratic structure and influence activities, and technology adoption of advanced manufacturing technologies and human resource management practices stand high in explaining organizational change. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages: Volume: 2000/107 Year: 2000 Issue:107 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=15324&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:polipo:v:html10.3280/Poli2000-107006 Number: 6 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Emiliano Laruccia Author-Name: Marcello Esposito Author-Name: Gregorio De Felice Title: La struttura settoriale del mercato azionario europeo Abstract: La struttura settoriale del mercato azionario europeo (di Gregorio De Felice, Marcello Esposito, Emiliano Laruccia) - ABSTRACT: Whit the event of EURO, the variability of exchange rates, differences in monetary policies and then in interest rates dynamics are no more relevant in explaining domestic Stock Exchanges behaviour. With economic convergence, expectations on corporate earnings will be the key factor. In this world, an important role will be played by different sector weights in each National Index. In order to anticipate this trend, some Financial Institutions recently started to be ?sector? diversified: Found Managers are increasingly moving from country-based portfolios to sector-based funds. This paper aim to describe the sectorial dimension of european Stock Exchange Market. In the fist part we analyse the sector composition, while in the second we statistically verify if sectors are emerging as factor explaining European Stock Indeces dynamics. In the third part we illustrate how valuation models can incorporate this factor. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages: Volume: 2000/107 Year: 2000 Issue:107 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=15325&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:polipo:v:html10.3280/Poli2000-107007 Number: 7 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alberto Brugnoli Author-Name: Stefano Fachin Title: Concentrazione e diffusione: la geografia industriale italiana 1981-1991 Abstract: Concentrazione e diffusione: la geografia industriale italiana 1981-1991 (di Alberto Brugnoli, Stefano Fachin) - ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper is to examine the industrial geography of Italy on the basis of the employment data of the last two general censuses (1981-1991). Having first shown how maps in the geographical concentration-geographical autocorrelation space may help in distinguishing industries according to their localization patterns, we constructed such maps for 13 manufacturing industries (NACE rev. 1 classification). The conclusions reached are that three main patterns seem to have driven the localization trends over the period of interest: 1) a first pattern leads a small number of distinct centres, each extending over a few neighbouring provinces, and applies to industries including companies of small average size (Textiles, Apparel and Leather, Rubber and Plastic, Machinery, Fabricated Metal, Stone). The concept of Marshallian district seems to be highly relevant for this localization pattern; 2) a second pattern leads a very small number of distinct, single-province, centres, and applies to industries including companies of large average size (Paper and printing, Chemicals, Petroleum, Electrical machinery, Transportation equipment), possibly suggesting the existence of a centre-periphery mechanism driven by returns to scale still in action; 3) finally, a third pattern is relevant for industries with small companies (Food and Timber), which appears to cluster in a large number of non-neighbouring provinces, possibly confirming Weber?s (1929) view of the localization patterns as mostly driven by distance from raw materials sources and markets. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages: Volume: 2000/107 Year: 2000 Issue:107 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=15326&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:polipo:v:html10.3280/Poli2000-107008 Number: 8 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Carlo Altomonte Title: Strumenti di liberalizzazione e tutela giuridica degli investimenti esteri. Analisi ed evidenza empirica Abstract: Strumenti di liberalizzazione e tutela giuridica degli investimenti esteri. Analisi ed evidenza empirica (di Carlo Altomonte) - ABSTRACT: Starting from the early nineties, the strong evolution of more liberal policies related to Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) has helped in boosting their growth, with an increasing involvement of developing countries and transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe. The progressive acknowledgement of the benefits and potential costs linked to this phenomenon has raised as a result a debate on the proper definition of national and international rules aimed at creating a long lasting and sustainable economic development. From one side, these rules should liberalise and guarantee the operation of multinational corporation, and hence foster FDI, given the link existing between them and the local levels of development; from the other side, the very same norms should create the adequate conditions under which the host countries can benefit as much as possible from the presence of multinational firms, without exposing themselves however to the risks deriving from a wild, non appropriately regulated, liberalisation. The paper explores these issues through an analysis of the currently available laws and procedures related to the liberalisation and guarantee of foreign investments, verifying empirically the modalities of the existing relationship between such norms and FDI in the case of Central and Eastern European countries. Some future policy implications are then derived. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages: Volume: 2000/107 Year: 2000 Issue:107 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=15327&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:polipo:v:html10.3280/Poli2000-107009 Number: 9 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Giovanni Battista Dagnino Title: Spazio e tempo in economia d'impresa: note metodologiche per un'indagine integrata sulle forme organizzative reticolari Abstract: Spazio e tempo in economia d'impresa: note metodologiche per un'indagine integrata sulle forme organizzative reticolari (di Giovanni Battista Dagnino) - ABSTRACT: This article aims to explore how and to what extent economics of the firm may take advantage through a transdisciplinary and bi-directional collaboration with both economic history and economic-regional sciences, and the related research methodologies. First, we investigate the pre-industrial putting-out-based historical roots of the present network forms of organizations. Second, we uncover an original framework of their evolution in economic thought. Third, we juxtapose and integrate the approaches to reticular systems worked out, respectively, by the economics of the firm (for firms and districts) and regional sciences (for urban and regional fabric). Fourth and eventually, as concerns the study of the network and territorial systems of firms and of cities, we advance a first sketch of the original double network connection between networks of firms and networks of cities, and highlight how - between economic disciplines related to the study of a local geographic territory - they are unfolding new and fertile possibilities for multidisciplinary collaborations and cross-fertilizations. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages: Volume: 2000/107 Year: 2000 Issue:107 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=15328&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:polipo:v:html10.3280/Poli2000-107010 Number: 10 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gianni Cozzi Title: Metamorfosi di un distretto industriale nel pensiero di Giacomo Becattini Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages: Volume: 2000/107 Year: 2000 Issue:107 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=15329&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:polipo:v:html10.3280/Poli2000-107011 Number: 11