G<sc>iunta</sc> A., N<sc>ifo</sc> A. et S<sc>calera</sc> D. Subcontracting in Italian industry: labour division, firm growth and the North--South divide, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of subcontracting on Italian manufacturing firms' growth in the second half of the 1990s. The main...

The aim of this paper is to study the internationalisation process in a representative sample of 786 firms operating in the Italian automotive industry, a paradigmatic example of a producer driven global value chain. Building on the global value chain literature, the contribution this paper...