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作者

Giulio Cainelli;Valentina Giannini;Donato Iacobucci

来源

EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES,Vol.29,Issue.4

语言

英文

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作者单位

a Department of Economics and Management “Marco Fanno”, University of Padova, Padua, Italy;b Department of Information Engineering, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy;b Department of Information Engineering, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy

摘要

The literature on business groups played a significant role in the debate over the evolution of Italian industrial districts. The diffusion of business groups in industrial districts resulted in a hierarchization of productive relationships and increased output concentration. This paper focusses on the presence and the characteristics of business groups in industrial districts. We assume that there are particular features of business groups that are specific to district compared to non-district business groups: the former are less diversified, more spatially concentrated and with a higher level of hierarchization. We use a novel dataset on Italian manufacturing groups based on information provided by the AIDA database. The empirical evidence confirms our expectations.