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industrial disparity from the viewpoint of industrial agglomeration / Koichiro Kimura -- Agglomeration in Italy -- Italian …This book, a collaborative effort by researchers from Japan, Italy and the USA, seeks to explore the reasons for … industrial clusters, adding anecdotal evidence to the emerging theory of economic geography by exemplifying the centripetal and …

This eloquent book analyses the theory of the cooperative form of enterprise from an historic perspective, whilst … development of cooperation in the world -- 5. The cooperative movement in Italy -- 6. The economic performance of cooperative …

authors focus on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Italy and Taiwan, two countries in which these businesses …

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Services in Economic Theory and Economic Practice: Some Conceptual Issues 4. A Comparative Approach. to the …