Giacomo Becattini's research while affiliated with University of Florence and other places
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Publications (18)
This article discusses the question of what should be the proper conceptual framework for analysing productive phenomena. The cause for reflection on this topic stems from a proposal made by researchers from the Bank of Italy (Alampi et al., 2013) to analyse productive phenomena through the lens of an integrated geographical and sectorial perspecti...
The aim of the paper is to present the main lines of the wide-ranging and decades-long debate on IDs (industrial districts). We look at what the IDs have represented in the past, their current situation, and the challenges and opportunities these face in a socio-economic context that is spurring greater interaction between global and local forces....
'A Handbook of Industrial Districts is a very well-organized and structured collection of scientific works on the theory of industrial districts. © Giacomo Becattini, Marco Bellandi and Lisa De Propris 2009. All rights reserved.
Marshall introduced the idea of ‘internal’ economies, which accompany the growth of the ‘individual representative firm’, as opposed to the ‘external’ economies accompanying the growth of ‘a national or a local industry’. In principle the pursuit of internal economies would lead to a world composed of firms each one producing a great share of a ver...
Creating Experiences in the Experience Economy focuses on the creation of experience from a business perspective. In doing so, the book establishes a more solid foundation for making better and more complex analyses of experience creation, paving the way for the development of analytically based and innovative experiences in experience firms and in...
Our aim in this article is to lay some statistical and theoretical foundations for an understanding of Italian post-war economic growth, by devoting special attention to what has happened in the hundred different “Italies” that go to make up the mosaic of this country. We have concentrated our analysis on comparing “areas of large enterprise” with...
On the basis of economic and population census data and of foreign trade statistics, in this paper we analyse the changes that occurred in the 1990s in the different local production systems that make up the mosaic of the Italian economy. The results of the study show that personal and household goods and light engineering, often made in industrial...
Only 10-12 years ago, anyone musing on the eventuality that Marshall’s thought might once again occupy an important position in contemporary theoretical reflection would certainly have reached a negative answer. There were isolated scholars who saw many unexpressed potential capacities in Marshall’s thought, regarding it as a goldmine of many usefu...
The article captures and presents the results of various schools of research on Italian industry that have developed over the last few decades, describing the contemporary Italian economy as "mixed", i.e. with two engines of industrial development: the small and medium-sized enterprises embedded in industrial districts or district-like environments...
The article begins by showing that the traditional concept of industrial sector has been radically criticized on both theoretical and empirical grounds. The reasons for the concept's inadequacy are raised, and they are identiéed as: (i) the fact that in a rapidly changing world empirical classiécations must be changed; (ii) the fact that when schol...
El artículo reconstruye ante todo la génesis histórica del concepto del
distrito industrial concentrándose en el pensamiento de un autor, Alfred Marshall, al
que se puede considerar su formulador. Se muestra como el concepto tiene su origen
de la feliz confluencia de la atenta observación de la realidad industrial contemporánea,
sobre todo británic...
This paper begins by reconstructing the historical genesis of the notion of industrial district, focusing on the contribution of Alfred Marshall, the economist who is thought to have discovered this system. The paper also shows how the notion of industrial district stems from the successful wedding of Marshall’s keen observations of contemporary in...
This paper aims at presenting the main lines of a wide-ranging debate spreading over the last decades on what industrial districts have represented in the past, what they are undergoing at the present time, and the challenges and opportunities they are facing in a socio-economic context where global and local forces increasingly interact. We start...
Citations
... More specifically, some approaches have emphasised the ability of the governance model to a) reach internal efficiency [Coase, 1937;Williamson, 1973], b) maximise strategic control over stakeholders, even to the detriment of the latter [cf. Cowling and Sugden, 1998, for a critique] and c) determine an effective cognitive framework for managing complexity [Loasby, 2006]. ...
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... The theoretical reflection on these localised food systems has its roots in the notion of the industrial district developed in Italy in the 1970s by economists and other social scientists [31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41] to investigate the characteristics and potential of that particular model of industrialisation emerging in some areas of North-East and Central Italy. Becattini is particularly credited with the rediscovery and reinterpretation of Marshall's notion of the industrial district based on the key concept of agglomeration external economies [35,41,42]. ...
... 34. See for example Becattini and Bellandi (2002), Menghinello (2004). 35. ...
... It was controlled whether the firm's municipality is part of an industrial district. Following the latest census information, a dummy variable (District) was included, coded '1' if the municipality is classified as district and '0' otherwise (Becattini et al., 2014). The Jacobian externalities, stemming from the diversity of the local setting, which is deemed to facilitate access to a diversified workforce and complementary knowledge (Van der Panne, 2004), were taken into account. ...
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... Firms grew that were able to quickly adjust to these changes. Spatial proximity reduced transactions costs to deal with this volatility, which resulted in the emergence of new concepts like regional production systems (Becattini, 2002), newly industrialised spaces (Scott, 1988) and regional clusters (Porter, 1998). ...
... The industrial cluster is conceived as a set of firms in close geographical proximity to one another that form a system based on contractual ties. By contrast, the industrial district is defined as a local industrial region containing one or a few industrial clusters composed of local networks of production firms embedded in a web of social, institutional and cultural ties (Becattini, Bellandi, & De Propris, 2011). The literature on industrial districts has identified "phase markets" arising from the division of the production process as a place where competition and mutual cooperation occur. ...
... The production in these sectors is largely embedded in places with specific historical, institutional, social, and business contexts. The reference to such places carries symbols and identity (Becattini & Dei Ottati, 2006;Becattini & Rullani, 2004;De Marchi et al., 2014), which are incorporated into the products and are used to promote the latter in international markets (Lazzeretti & Oliva, 2020;Sopranzetti, 2018). ...
... While the "made in Germany" label conveys the image of reliability, solidity, and durability over time (Brodbeck et al., 2002), and the "made in France" label is associated with the idea of exclusivity, prestige, and luxury (Taddéi & Corriat, 1993), the "made in Italy" brand refers to artisan quality, elegant design, and sensory elements that characterize the Italian reputation for the great beauty (Bellandi et al., 2020;Bertoli & Rescinti, 2013). 1 Some definitions of made-in-Italy sectors include food and beverages, apparel and fashion, furniture and interior decoration, and instrumental machineries-i.e., machineries that are used to produce goods in the food, fashion and furniture sectors- (Becattini, 1998;Fortis & Carminati, 2009). However, the "made in" effect has implications for an entire range of products made or designed in Italy, specifically in sectors where Italian exports have traditionally a strong specialization (Becattini & Coltorti, 2006;Carbone et al., 2021;Morrison & Rabellotti, 2009). In fact, many goods aimed at the end consumer have a strong image attached to Italian productive systems, which goes beyond their technical performance or inner quality. ...
... The resulting dataset is a panel with 171,156 company/year observations over the period 2000-2016. Given the strong characterization of industrial districts in terms of manufacturing specialization (Becattini 2002;Harrison 2007), we restricted our focus to manufacturing firms. After further deleting cases with missing or incomplete information, we arrived at a final usable panel of 55,489 company/year observations. ...
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... Clustering has been found to enable smaller firms to compete effectively with larger vertically integrated firms, according to the evidence on competitiveness and location (Porter, 1998). Becattini (2002) has also argued that, for SMEs in TMSs, the most significant challenge is not their small size but rather their isolation, i.e., their mode of location. ...
