Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Food & Beverage industry in Italy -- Chapter 3. Post-Pandemic Trends in the Food & Beverage Industry -- Chapter 4. IGOR Gorgonzola -- Chapter 5. Venchi -- Chapter 6. Calvisius Caviar -- Chpater 7. illycaffè -- Chapter 8. Ca’ del Bosco -- Chapter 9....

This special issue of the British Food Journal includes the contributions of a group of management researchers working in different Italian universities. Despite the geographical scatter of their head offices, they share a scientific interest in a particular category of food productions, whose...

This paper studies the impact of size on labor cost and productivity for Italian manufacturing firms. The distributions of both labor cost and productivity display a wide support, even when disaggregated by sector of industrial activity. Further, both labor cost and productivity, when considered...

Even before the global crisis, the Italian economy was in difficulties internationally, but slow growth and a declining share of world trade were accompanied by a perceptible process of manufacturing transformation. This paper, using data from the Bank of Italy's survey of manufacturers,...

This paper analyses the effect of competition from low-wage countries on domestic activity, using data on 230 Italian manufacturing sectors between 1995 and 2007. We find that low-wage import penetration is negatively related to employment and other measures of activity. The effect is...

The paper investigates R&D and ICT investment at firm level, assessing their relative importance and the extent to which they are complements or substitutes. We use data on a large unbalanced panel sample from four consecutive waves of a survey of Italian manufacturing firms, together with a...