Italian Abstract: Downloadable document is inQuesto lavoro presenta in un quadro unitario i risultati delle ricerche di recente svolte in Banca d’Italia sul tema dell’internazionalizzazione del nostro sistema produttivo. L’internazionalizzazione è vista non solo come un investimento...

The objective of this paper is to evaluate the performance and outline a profile of the medium and medium-large size italian multinational firms. The work concentrates specifically on industrial multinational firms of “fourth capitalism” - that is the set of the medium and medium-large...

In this short essay the contributions discussed at the Conference “From the crisis to the growth. Policies to sustain the SM firms”, taken place in June 2009 at the University of Padova, have been collected. In the contributions presented, moving from different points of view, the authors...

The paper focuses on internationalization strategies to be adopted by industrial district firms facing the deep change related to the world wide market opening process. Critical factors and threats are pointed out, in order to identify developing strategies that can enforce a co-ordination role...