The paper uses a unique dataset to address the issue of the functional and competitive upgrading of firms located in Italian industrial districts as a way to counter the growing competition faced by the suppliers of intermediate goods in global value chains (GVC). To maintain or enhance...

The gaps in the export performance between Italian industry and its main competitors have (re)focused attention on the concept of "bazaar economy". In the specific case of Italy, the hypothesis of an economic model such as that of the bazaar economy would translate into significant impacts in...

A recent literature has described, on an empirical level, the way in which local industries are organised into ?clusters??, inserted within global industrial and commercial networks. These studies have shown that geographical proximity by itself is not a sufficient condition for co-ordination...

In this paper it is analyzed the organizations’ sustainability which are committed to the exploitation’ activities of tule Thypha spp at the Zapotlán’s Lagoon and its socioeconomic and environmental impact in the municipalities of Gómez Farías and Zapotlán el Grande. The initial...

The objective of this article is to investigate the dynamics of relocations at the micro-economic level. By proposing a grid of “dynamics of proximities”, we focus on the coordination issues which seem to be missing from most of analyses carried about relocations. We apply our framework to...

We document and then develop a model explaining and relating changes in firms’ organization and in urban structure. Sharing of business services by headquarters and of sector-specific intermediates by production plants within a city reduces costs, while congestion increases with city size. A...

Striking evidence is presented of a previously unremarked transformation of urban structure from mainly sectoral to mainly functional specialisation. We offer an explanation showing that this transformation is inextricably interrelated with changes in firms' organisation. A greater variety of...

ResumenEl objetivo de este artículo es investigar los determinantes de la multilocalización intrarregional de empresas exportadoras de manufacturas en Colombia para el año 2007. Para ello se utiliza un conjunto de datos de empresas, tomados de las bases de Proexport y la Superintendencia de...

This paper focuses on the functional specialisation of a system of cities, with particular attention to the role and the formation process of secondary business centers. At the European level, the latters can be identified in the large number of regional capitals, and properly defined as cities...

Industrial sectors producing income-elastic products can grow rapidly but are highly vulnerable to fluctuations in the world economy. Policymakers need to take into account this trade-off between output and employment growth over the longer term and volatility in the short to medium term. We...