A Growth Engine for SMEs: a Socio-economic Network Approach to the Third Italy
Italy is world-widely noted for her huge numbers of small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). After the Second World War, a large number of SMEs in the central and north-eastern parts (The Third Italy) built their competitiveness on agglomeration economy in hundreds of industrial districts (IDs). By a socio-economic network approach, this paper analyses agglomeration economy in The Third Italy against a backdrop of economic globalization. Then it describes the supporting role that socio-economic networks play in various IDs for local production systems. Finally this paper concludes that SMEs international competitiveness in industrial clusters has originated from local socio-economic networks.
Socio-economic Networks SMEs The Third Italy International Competitiveness
WANG Chuan-ying
School of Economics, Nankai University, P.R.China, 300071
国际会议
2007 International Conference on Dtrategic Management（2007年战略管理国际会议）
成都
英文
1002-1010
2007-04-19（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）