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Towards the factory 4.0? : convergence and divergence of lean models in Italian automotive plants

Moro, Angelo; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2021

-organisational configurations of these factories confirm that this wave of technological innovation is far from leading to total automation or the …

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Control in the era of surveillance capitalism : an empirical investigation of Italian Industry 4.0 factories

Moro, Angelo; Rinaldini, Matteo; Staccioli, Jacopo; … - 2019

We explore the extent to which the current technological trend, dubbed Industry 4.0, might increase forms of control inside organisations, by focussing on pivotal firms in the so-called Italian Motor Valley currently embracing its adoption. We find that Industry 4.0 technologies open up great...

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Workers' awareness context in Italian 4.0 factories

Cirillo, Valeria; Rinaldini, Matteo; Staccioli, Jacopo; … - 2018

The study of the co-evolution of processes of technological innovation and the resulting organisational changes has …

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The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level : empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries

Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - 2001

This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...

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Industrial relations and firm-level innovation : a comparative analysis of establishment data in Germany and Italy

Anzoli, Guendalina; Benassi, Chiara; Cetrulo, Armanda - 2024

A large body of research has investigated the impact of industrial relations on workplace innovation. Econometric … research based on U.S. data suggests that unions are detrimental to innovation, while evidence from Europe is more mixed. This … points to the importance of "contextualized" theorizing about the effects of industrial relations on firm-level innovation …

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Trade and profitability: is there an export premium? : evidence from Italian manufacturing firms

Grazzi, Marco - 2009

Using firm level data this study investigates the relation between export activity and firm’s profitability. The paper shows that, contrary to other performance indicators such as productivity, exporting activity is not systematically associated to higher firm’s profitability. This is shown...

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Sectoral and geographical specifities in the spatial structure of economic activities

Bottazzi, Giulio; Dosi, Giovanni; Fagiolo, Giorgio; … - 2007

This work explores the spatial distribution of productive activities in the Italian manufacturing industry. We propose an econometric model which tries to disentangle locationspecific from sectoral drivers in the dynamic process of spatial agglomeration. The basic idea is that the former...

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Characterizing the production process : a disaggregated analysis of Italian manufacturing firms

Bottazzi, Giulio (contributor); Grazzi, Marco (contributor); … - 2005

This paper provides a description of the production process by comparing different frameworks in which to analyze the relations between inputs and output. The analyses are performed on a representative sample of Italian manufacturing firms. We employ both parametric and non-parametric analysis....

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Innovation, creative destruction and structural change : firm-level evidence from European Countries

Dachs, Bernhard; Hud, Martin; Köhler, Christian; … - 2016

dynamics. We investigate this reallocation in terms of employment gains and losses from innovation. New employment created by … product innovation may be offset by employment losses in related products, known as 'cannibalisation' or 'business stealing …' effects in the literature, by employment losses from process and organisational innovation and by general productivity …

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Exhibitions, patents, and innovation in the early twentieth century : evidence from the Turin 1911 international exhibition

Domini, Giacomo - 2019

This paper investigates the relevance for innovation of international exhibitions. While the first of these events, i … innovation, and their relationship to the traditional patent measure, should be better qualified. To do so, this paper performs …

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