Purpose The best strategy to apply for the future cannot disregard a careful analysis of the past and is the one capable of seizing opportunities from outside. Manufacturing sectors are characterized by sudden changes, and in this work, we analyze the ceramic tiles sector characterized by a...

This paper examines how the concept of industrial district, widely recognised as an Italian construct, took shape. It assesses to what extent the concept was tailored to fit the peculiar trait of the Italian economic development, as is claimed by some international authors, and to what extent it...

The research question of this paper refers to the management of potential cultural diversity problems arising from the increasing delocalisation processes of Italian industrial district firms. It is argued that these firms can decrease such cultural distance with their new foreign partners via...

The aim of this article is to extend the concept of identity and identification to the study of industrial districts. The theoretical model presented explains how identity and identification occur within localized production networks and examines how the process of identification affects the...

This article deals with the problems of formation and development of high-tech sector in the world, Russia and its regions. Opportunities and limits for formation of modern high-tech mode in industrial region are reviewed. Practical realizations of innovation resonance methodology in the Middle...