Recent years have witnessed a re-emergence of business rescues and buyouts of failing
firms or of firms with succession issues to cooperatives. In our current times of lingering …

Why small business is not the basis of American prosperity, not the foundation of American
democracy, and not the champion of job creation. In this provocative book, Robert Atkinson …

Family firms and industrial districts represent the pillars of the Italian manufacturing industry.
Yet, the interplay between corporate ownership and the districtual organization of the …

We explore how family-owned small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) control their
investments abroad: through full ownership (wholly owned subsidiaries) or sharing the …

In this paper we investigate a sample of 122 Italian manufacturing small to medium-sized
family firms, and analyse the effects of the degree of family involvement on their decisions to …

This paper reviews the main macroeconomic trends and the debate on policy priorities in
Italy since the advent of EMU. It argues that, in the decade up to the outbreak of the global …

Una breve noticia aparecida en la edición del 19 de setiembre de 1990 de un periódico de
tirada nacional informaba de la firma de un acuerdo para la creación de una joint venture en …

This paper highlights the first phase of a research program, completed in late 2014 and early
2015 that homes in on worker-recuperated enterprises (imprese recuperate dai lavoratori) in …

As a host country for foreign direct investment, conventional measures suggest that Italy is
not a very attractive location. However, based upon a new database of the one hundred …

This article analyses the dynamics of business groups (BG) formation and diffusion in Italy in
the twentieth century. It shows that BGs is not an organisational form which characterizes …