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Journal articles on the topic "Italian SME’s"

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Gabbianelli, Linda. "A territorial perspective of SME’s default prediction models." Studies in Economics and Finance 35, no. 4 (October 1, 2018): 542–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sef-08-2016-0207.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test whether the qualitative variables regarding the territory and the firm–territory relationship can improve the accuracy rates of small business default prediction models. Design/methodology/approach The authors apply a logistic regression to a sample of 141 small Italian enterprises located in the Marche region, and the authors build two different default prediction models: one using only financial ratios and one using jointly financial ratios and variables related to the relationship between firm and territory. Findings Including variables regarding the relationships between firms and their territory, the accuracy rates of the default prediction model are significantly improved. Research limitations/implications The qualitative variables data collected are affected by subjective judgments of respondents of the firms studied. In addition, neither other qualitative variables (such as those regarding competitive strategies, or managerial skills) are included nor those variables regarding the relationships between firms and financial institutions are included. Practical implications The study suggests that financial institutions should include territory qualitative variables, and, above all, qualitative variables regarding the firm–territory relationship, when constructing business default prediction models. Including this type of variables, it could be able to reduce the tendency to place unnecessary restrictions on credit. Originality/value The field of business failure prediction modeling using variables regarding the relationship between firm–territory is a unexplored area as it count of a very few studies.
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Bengo, Irene, and Marika Arena. "The relationship between small and medium-sized social enterprises and banks." International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management 68, no. 2 (February 11, 2019): 389–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijppm-02-2018-0066.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to perform a critical analysis of the relationship between small- and medium-sized social enterprises (SMSEs) and banks. Based on the conceptual framework for the analysis of SME’s credit availability developed by Berger and Udell (2006), this study aims to contribute to the current debate in two ways: first, outlining the characteristics of the lending technologies currently used by banks and financial institutions to evaluate SMSEs when they apply for credit; and second, discussing, based on the results of the empirical analysis, the coherence of these systems from the social ecosystem perspective and identifying areas for possible improvement. Design/methodology/approach The paper develops a conceptual framework based on the model proposed by Berger and Udell (2006), which defines the characteristics of lending technologies that banks use to evaluate SMEs, and applies it to the case of SMSEs. To study the interplay of these lending technologies, the empirical analysis is based on a case study of five Italian banks. Data are collected from multiple sources to capture key dimensions of the problems analyzed. Findings The paper provides empirical insight about the relationship between SMSEs and banks. The Italian case shows that the current lending infrastructure must be revised to support SMSE credit availability, and government policies affect the national financial institution structure. The relationship between SMSEs and Italian banks remains underdeveloped. Social implications The research supports the scaling up of social business. Originality/value This paper fulfills an identified need to study how social enterprises credit access can be enabled.
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Ottonello, L., G. Canepa, P. Albertelli, E. Picco, A. Florio, G. Masciarelli, S. Rossi, et al. "The Largest Italian SMES." IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity 16, no. 2 (June 2006): 602–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tasc.2005.869677.

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Cinquegrana, G., and D. Sarno. "Regional Effects on the Capital Structure of the Italian SMEs." International Journal of Economics and Finance 10, no. 11 (October 20, 2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijef.v10n11p1.

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This analysis investigates the determinants of the capital structure of the SMEs belonging in the so-called Italian Mezzogiorno, that is perfectly integrated but slowly growing area the South of the country, with respect to the capital structure of the SMEs of the more developed Italian regions. The study is based on a large sample of Italian manufacturing SMEs covering the 2001-2013 years and she is carried through fixed effect panel estimations of several standard leverage models. The empirical findings show that there are structural differences in the working of regional model reaffirming some distinctive features of the financial behaviour of the SMEs belonging in the Southern Italian regions.
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Broccardo, Laura, Elisa Giacosa, Francesca Culasso, and Alberto Ferraris. "Management control in Italian SMEs." Global Business and Economics Review 19, no. 5 (2017): 632. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/gber.2017.086781.

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Ferraris, Alberto, Laura Broccardo, Francesca Culasso, and Elisa Giacosa. "Management Control in Italian SMEs." Global Business and Economics Review 19, no. 5 (2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/gber.2017.10004434.

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Morabito, Vicenzo, Stefano Pace, and Pietro Previtali. "ERP Marketing and Italian SMEs." European Management Journal 23, no. 5 (October 2005): 590–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2005.09.014.

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Minarelli, F., M. Raggi, and D. Viaggi. "Distinguishing the innovation behaviour of micro, small and medium food enterprises." Journal on Chain and Network Science 14, no. 2 (January 1, 2014): 95–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.3920/jcns2014.x004.

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The European economy, and particularly the food sector, is characterised by small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Networking represents for SMEs an opportunity to meet their needs in terms of know-how, and technological and financial resources with the main purpose of fostering innovation and facing global competition. Most scientific studies investigating networking for innovation focus on SMEs as a whole without exploring possible differences between SMEs. An important question to be posed is whether the firms within groups of SMEs behave the same in terms of innovation. The purpose of this paper is to understand whether different ‘innovation profiles’ of Italian food SMEs can be distinguished and to identify the structural factors associated with different profiles, with particular attention to size and networking. The methodology consists of a cluster analysis on data obtained by standardized on-line questionnaires compiled by Italian agri-food SMEs. Moreover, besides the identification of possible heterogeneity within the SME group with regard to innovation behaviour, the paper presents further value by providing useful information on surveyed Italian food SMEs in terms of firm structure and innovation.
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di Donato, Francesca, and Luciano Nieddu. "Corporate failure: Bankruptcy prediction for Italian SMEs based on a longitudinal case study from 2000 to 2011." Corporate Ownership and Control 17, no. 3 (2020): 27–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cocv17i3art2.

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We investigate the case of Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Italy trying to understand if key performance indicators obtained from the financial statement are able to predict possible distress in a company with enough time to take some corrective actions. In order to test the hypotheses, a nonparametric supervised classification algorithm has been applied to a random sample of 100 non-listed SMEs, considering 50 companies that filed for bankruptcy during the period 2000-2011 and 50 companies still active on the market at the end of 2011. Results describe the Italian picture for SMEs during an economic crisis period. They show that, for the Italian case, it is possible to predict with enough time (4-5 years prior to failure) a distress situation in a firm through classification methods. Anyway, these methods are not predicting the health of a company but the possibility of the firm to access the credit system. The results are limited to the Italian SMEs context which is quite particular if compared with other countries in Europe. The dataset is limited in size but has been chosen to be representative of non-listed Italian companies.
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Angelini, Maria Serena, Alessandro Gennaro, and Renato Giovannini. "Financial policy of Italian SMEs: The impact of mini-bond." Corporate Ownership and Control 16, no. 3 (2019): 113–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cocv16i3art10.

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Matter of interest is the financing policies adopted by Italian SMEs to sustain their business cycles and competitive strategies; more specifically, the paper attempts to verify the role played by the “mini-bond”, a financing instrument introduced in 2012 by the Italian government. So, this paper can be framed in the part of the wide financial literature that examines the financing decisions of SMEs. In this field, it provides a contribution in this field by analyzing the impacts on the financing policy and choices, generated by the introduction of new and alternative financial instruments. Therefore, focusing on the Italian context, the research analyses whether the mini-bonds have actually triggered variations in capital structure, solvency and profitability of Italian SMEs that have issued mini-bond. After having considered trends and statistics about the mini-bond market, the paper examines the effects of financial policies adopted by Italian companies that tapped the bond market in the last 7 years. The analysis is based on a dataset extracted from database AIDA; this dataset includes accounting data and financial ratios taken from financial statements of Italian SMEs that issued mini-bond between 2012-2016. The research covers a sample of 246 Italian companies and focuses on their accounting ratios related to financial leverage, solvency, and profitability. Considering the variation between the years before and after the issues for each of 12 considered ratios, we measured average, median and standard deviation of variations to analyze the financial behaviour of SMEs in the sample. This research framework is slightly different from previous researches because, to correctly interpret the average variations, we carried out a preliminary significance check using the Student distribution, and we observed the coherence between average and median, also considering if positive variations were less or more than negative ones. The main results we obtain are that mini-bonds have: an impact on the issuer’s capital structure, with clear impacts on the level and maturity of indebtness; a positive influence on the short-term solvency level of the issuers.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Italian SME’s"

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Fumagalli, Chiara. "Bringing italians SME’s to Brazil: the case of GM Venture." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/17579.

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The Italian business presence in Brazil has been characterizing, since years, the economic landscape of Brazil. More than 1300 Italian companies, from the biggest to the smallest one, are acting in Brazil, exploiting the overall potential of this country and contributing with the excellence they can bring. Noting the consistency of the Italian presence and wondering how those companies have entered such a complex country and, a recurring name has been GM Venture, which became the protagonist of this dissertation. The thesis in fact aims at studying how GM Venture Company has been able to create value for Italian SMEs, contributing to their success in Brazil during the last ten years. Therefore this analysis focuses firstly on the literature dealing with the key success factors for the internationalization of small-medium enterprises. The second part of the literature goes deep in the specific case of the Brazilian context, trying to understand the major problems that this particular environment poses to small-medium companies internationalizing here and some specific factors Italian companies should pay attention to. Given this introduction, the analysis centers on the core topic of this dissertation. In fact the investigation regarding the GM Venture case looks specifically at how this company has been able create value despite those problems and create a business model able to successfully support SMEs entering Brazil. The inquiry on the case and the conclusion reports how GM Venture, through its operations, has been able to respond to the Brazilian rtise, and positively contribute to the growth and value of the Italian economic reality in this country. Moreover looking at the literature findings, this specific case introduces some novelty in the emerged factors, such as a new way of conceiving the Network, as well as new factors or undervalued ones for success such as promptness in the response and trustworthiness, which are essential in the Brazilian economic environment.
Desde muitos anos a presença Italiana no Brasil foi caracterizante do panorama econômico brasileiro. Mais de mil trezentos empresas italianas, das maiores ate as menores, são presente hoje no Brasil, aproveitando inteiramente do potencial Brasileiro e levando no Brasil uma contribuição relevante no sistema econômico, por meio da excelência que caracteriza estas empresas Italianas. Olhando ao tamanhão da realidade das empresas italiana no Brasil, e como todas essas corporações podia ter entrado em um pais muito complexo, ponto central foi a GM Venture, que se tornou o protagonista da minha dissertação. Esso TCC tem o escopo de entender melhor como esses deis anos GM Venture conseguiu em criar valor econômico por muitas media e pequena empresas Italianas, levando eles ao sucesso no novo país. Por isso a dissertação se focaliza inicialmente sobre a literatura da internacionalização e dos fatores essenciais de sucesso por uma pequena e media empresa em general. O secundo fator de analise nela literatura para o caso especifico do contexto Brasileiro, foi a compreensão dos problemas principais que o Brasil põe para pequenas-medias empresas estrangeiras, e algumas atenções que são necessárias em particular para empresários italianos. Para evoluir no tema, depois de essa introdução ao tema e ao contexto, o tópico mais importante é discutido. Então a investigação de esse trabalho se focaliza sobre o tema de como a GM Venture tem capacidade de responder com uma solução para os problemas presentados criando valor, e como ela criou um modelo de business que seja capaz de levar ao sucesso as empresas clientes no Brasil. A analise e conclusão do caso vão elaborar como a GM Venturo contribuiu ao resolver e evitar a complexidade Brasileira com meios legais e experiência, cooperando em positivo no crescimento da realidade econômica italiana em Brasil. Olhando ainda mais na analise da literatura e comparando o caso, parece evidente como o caso da GM Venture introduziu algumas novidades nos fatores já individuados, como uma ideais nova de network, e no mesmo tempo foi capaz de presentar fatores novos o subestimado, como a pronta velocidade e a confiança nos relacionamento de business que são muito importantes especialmente no Brasil.
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Roriz, Anna Lysie, and Nicola Feletto. "Behind the Internationalization Process of Northeast Italian SMEs : An Abductive Approach." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-176697.

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This study strives to investigate why some small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from Northeast Italy internationalize at inception and some internationalize gradually. The main literature regarding both, Born Globals and Stage-Models, were reviewed. In face of a high degree of fragmentation in the Born Global literature the study was developed through an abductive logic of reasoning. This basically means that we started by clustering already accepted internal and external factors, working then, towards a unified explanation. A qualitative study was developed with four SMEs. The main results show that no factor can singularly drive a company to internationalize at inception. Instead, the interaction of internal and external factors determines how SMEs internationalize. The findings provide empirical insights on the internationalization behavior of SMEs and redress the apparent theoretical gap in this field.
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Losurdo, Francesco. "A comparative study of internationalization potential for Italian SMEs in the fashion industry in Brazil and Russia." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/11201.

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This study aims to develop a comparative analysis of the internationalization potential in Russia and Brazil for Italian SMEs operating in the fashion industry. After introducing the reader to the main areas covered, such as the context, methodology and literature review, a macroeconomic overview of the geographical areas comprised is provided, thus encompassing a specific study on the current status of Italian economy and demand for Italian goods. The study introduces the reader to the Italian fashion industry, its main features and current performance, already evidencing the quest for internationalization. The conclusions arising from the macroeconomic analyses are used as introduction to the overview of the Italian fashion industry, an industry that strongly represents the “Made in Italy” abroad. The analysis of the industry encompassing history, main features and current status will then suggest that internationalization is the most viable way for SMEs to recover from the turbulent years of the crisis. Among the vast set of geographical options that the SMEs may embrace internationalization, this study aims to provide two tangible market analyses: the Russian and the Brazilian fashion industry. The analysis, based on the framework of international responsiveness by Bartlet and Ghoshal (1989), presents the results of a set of researches and interviews conducted in Russia and Brazil, in the form of a comparative analysis of the two target markets. The analysis will evidence market-, cost-, competitive- and legislation drivers that justify the internationalization process in both markets. The results will lead to conclusion and recommendations that the two markets represent two very different opportunities for SMEs of Italian fashion industry.
Este estudo tem como objetivo desenvolver uma análise comparativa do potencial de internacionalização na Rússia e no Brasil para as PME italianas que operam na indústria da moda. Depois de apresentar ao leitor as principais áreas cobertas, tais como, o contexto, a metodologia e revisão da literatura, é fornecido um panorama macroeconômico das áreas geográficas composto, englobando um estudo específico sobre o estado atual da economia e da demanda para os bens italianos. O estudo, introduzindo o leitor na indústria de moda italiana, suas principais características e o desempenho atual, já evidencia a busca pela internacionalização. As conclusões decorrentes das análises macroeconômicas funcionam como introdução à visão geral da indústria de moda italiana, uma indústria que representa, fortemente, o 'Made in Italy' no exterior. A breve análise da história desta indústria, principais características e situação atual irão, então, sugerir que a internacionalização é o caminho mais viável às PME, para se recuperarem dos anos turbulentos da crise. Entre o vasto conjunto de opções geográficas que as PME têm para abraçar internacionalização, este estudo tem como objetivo fornecer duas análises sobre a indústria da moda: o mercado russo e o brasileiro. A análise, com base no quadro de capacidade de ‘resposta internacional’ proposto por Bartlet e Ghoshal (1989), apresenta os resultados de um conjunto de pesquisas e entrevistas realizadas no Brasil, na Itália e na Rússia, sob a forma de uma análise comparativa dos dois mercados-alvo. A análise evidenciará os drivers de mercado, custo, competitividade e legislação que justificam o processo de internacionalização em ambos os mercados. Os resultados levam à conclusão e às recomendações que os dois mercados representam duas oportunidades muito diferentes para as PME da indústria da moda italiana.
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Abate, Marco, and Massimo Biei. "Role of adopting response strategies to manage the Front-End phase of a project. : An exploratory study of the Italian Innovative SMEs." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-118300.

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The present study investigates the role of the Front-End phase within the context of Innovative Small and Medium-sized Enterprises through the project management lens, focusing on what practitioners can do to manage this phase. Taking a cue from the assumption that the Front-End phase of a project is a very critical and important stage, this study begins with a literature review on innovation and on its role among the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, and moves to the identification of the main challengesthat an Innovative Italian Small and Medium Enterprise has to face in the Front-End phase. Particularly, the research focuses on the strategies that a project manager can implement to deal with the fuzzy nature of the Front-End phase, originated by uncertainty, equivocality and complexity. The study has an inductive approach and a cross-sectional time-horizon. A case study strategy has been employed, together with semi-structured interviews as data collection technique, involving six Italian Innovative Small and Medium-sized Enterprises identified through the framework of legal requirements provided by the European Union. Although literature poses on the same level all three elements, results show that there is a general consensus about the main role played by uncertainty. Practitioners identify several strategies to employ in order to deal with uncertainty, while the number of strategies identified to reduce equivocality and complexity is limited. Furthermore, this study identifies a correlation between the size of a company and the type of strategies employed to deal with the fuzziness. The more resource a company allocates on a project, the wider is the range of possible strategies project managers can adapt.
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ORTECA, MARIA KATIA. "Capitale sociale e innovazione nelle imprese: analisi empirica con un confronto tra Italia e UK." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/1081.

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Questo lavoro intende analizzare la correlazione tra innovazione delle imprese e capital sociale, misurato da indicatori classici (come la partecipazione politica e le attività nel tempo libero) e da indicatori maggiormente legati alla dimensione aziendale (come accordi e cooperazioni). L’analisi viene fatta sia per l’Italia che per il Regno Unito attraverso l’uso della Community Innovation Survey 4, la survey europea sull’innovazione e la R&S nelle imprese per i dati su innovazione e capital sociale aziendale. Inoltre vengono utilizzate l’Indagine Multiscopo 2000 per l’Italia e l’Indice di Deprivazione per l’Inghilterra come misure di capitale sociale classico. Infine viene proposta una comparazione dei risultati per i due paesi per l’analisi sul capitale sociale aziendale. Questa comparazione è riletta alla luce di più generali considerazioni sui due differenti sistemi produttivi ed economici.
This work would try to test the correlation between innovation in firms and social capital, measured by classic indicators (like political participation, leisure and activities) and more corporate indicators (like agreements and collaborations). The analysis is carried out for Italy and UK and we use the Community Innovation Survey 4, the European survey on innovation and R&D in the firms, for the data on innovation and corporate social capital. We use the Multipurpose Survey 2000 for Italy and the Index of Deprivation for England like measures of classic social capital. We further try a comparison of the results between the two countries for the analysis on corporate social capital. This comparison is finally referred to more general issues like the two different productive and economic systems.
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Howorth, Carole, and A. Moro. "Trustworthiness and interest rates: an empirical study of Italian SMEs." 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/6023.

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Trust is expected to reduce transaction costs and agency costs and thus influence the cost of credit for small businesses. Assessments of trustworthiness are based on the ability, benevolence and integrity of the owner manager. The study examines whether lending managers’ assessments of the trustworthiness of small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) owner managers are associated with the interest rate charged. Data were obtained from a survey of lending managers from small banks in North East Italy. Control variables and a vector of trustworthiness factors were collected on a random sample of customers, resulting in data for 365 small firms (74% response rate). Multivariate regression analyses provided evidence of a negative association between trustworthiness and interest rates. Banks, owner managers, policy makers and researchers should recognise the potential of trust to influence lending decisions and behaviour.
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Books on the topic "Italian SME’s"

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Garofalo, Giuseppe, ed. Capitalismo distrettuale, localismi d'impresa, globalizzazione. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-8453-605-1.

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From the late Sixties on, industrial development in Italy evolved through the spread of small and medium sized firms, aggregated in district networks, with an elevated propensity to enterprise and the marked presence of owner-families. Installed within the local systems, the industrial districts tended to simulate large-scale industry exploiting lower costs generated by factors that were not only economic. The districts are characterised in terms of territorial location (above all the thriving areas of the North-east and Centre) and sector, since they are concentrated in the "4 As" (clothing-fashion, home-decor, agri-foodstuffs, automation-mechanics), with some overlapping with "Made in Italy". How can this model be assessed? This is the crucial question in the debate on the condition and prospects of the Italian productive system between the supporters of its capacity to adapt and the critics of economic dwarfism. A dispassionate judgement suggests that the prospects of "small is beautiful" have been superseded, but that the "declinist" view, that sees only the dangers of globalisation and the IT revolution for our SMEs is risky. The concept of irreversible crisis that prevails at present is limiting, both because it is not easy either to "invent", or to copy, a model of industrialisation, and because there is space for a strategic repositioning of the district enterprises. The book develops considerations in this direction, showing how an evolution of the district model is possible, focusing on: gains in productivity, scope economies (through diversification and expansion of the range of products), flexibility of organisation, capacity to meld tradition and innovation aiming at product quality, dimensional growth of the enterprises, new forms of financing, active presence on the international markets and valorisation of the resources of the territory. It is hence necessary to reactivate the behavioural functions of the entrepreneurs.
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Onida, Fabrizio, Giuseppe Berta, and Mario Perugini. Old and New Italian Manufacturing Multinational Firms. Edited by Gianni Toniolo. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199936694.013.0015.

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Only two Italian multinationals born in very early twentieth century are surviving today (Fiat and Pirelli), while a number of public and private business that in the early post-war period had reached significant positions in the global business environment (such as Olivetti, Montecatini, SNIA, IRI-Ilva, Farmitalia) gradually disappeared or were sold to either Italian or foreign ownership. Since the mid-1980s a new wave of private SMEs ("fourth capitalism") became new protagonists of a rapid transformation from strong exporters to growing multinationals competing in sizeable world market niches. The chapter provides an overview of successes and failures of this peculiar pattern of multinational growth and decline of Italian firms.
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Book chapters on the topic "Italian SME’s"

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Gavinelli, Laura. "Boosting Italian SMEs’ Development: First Considerations." In Business Strategies and Competitiveness in Times of Crisis, 213–32. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57810-5_5.

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Venturelli, Alessia, and Aldo Pilisi. "EMA in SMEs: Ten Italian Case Studies." In Environmental Management Accounting — Purpose and Progress, 309–32. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0197-7_14.

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Migliaccio, Guido, and Luigi Umberto Rossetti. "Italian Furniture Sector SMEs: Sustainability and Commercial Ethics." In Palgrave Studies in Cross-disciplinary Business Research, In Association with EuroMed Academy of Business, 225–59. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45835-5_11.

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Malavasi, Roberto, Giuseppe Riccio, and Mauro Aliano. "Corporate Bonds for SMEs: A Study of Italian Minibonds." In Access to Bank Credit and SME Financing, 257–85. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41363-1_10.

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Sauer, Philipp C., Guido Orzes, and Laura Davi. "Toward SME 4.0: The Impact of Industry 4.0 Technologies on SMEs’ Business Models." In Implementing Industry 4.0 in SMEs, 293–343. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70516-9_10.

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Abstract Industry 4.0 (I4.0) transforms current production paradigms and raises an inherent need to integrate this with a firm’s rational of creating, delivering, and capturing value, i.e., the business model. The resource intensive I4.0 technology implementation challenges any organization and especially small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). To provide theoretical and practical support for this, our chapter first conducts a systematic literature review on business models and I4.0 technologies with a qualitative investigation and a quantitative contingency analysis. The chapter then analyses secondary data from 30 SMEs of an innovative Italian manufacturing cluster for which business model elements are modified while implementing specific I4.0 technologies. To guide future practice and research, 13 propositions and 4 research directions are developed on how implementing individual I4.0 technologies can modify specific business model elements for SMEs 4.0.
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Marzioni, Stefano, Luciano Monti, Alessandro Pandimiglio, and Marco Spallone. "The Economic Impact of EU Competitiveness Programs on Italian SMEs." In The Restructuring of Banks and Financial Systems in the Euro Area and the Financing of SMEs, 121–40. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137518736_6.

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Bruzzo, Aurelio. "Public Policies for Italian SMEs: Instruments, Results and Current Trends." In Contributions to Economics, 81–100. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag HD, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2623-4_5.

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Cuel, Roberta, and Gabriella Maria Cangelosi. "In Vino Veritas? Blockchain Preliminary Effects on Italian Wine SMEs." In Digital Business Transformation, 301–14. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47355-6_20.

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Morone, Piergiuseppe, Carmelo Petraglia, and Giuseppina Testa. "Looking Around: The Smart Way of Italian SMEs to Innovate." In Long Term Economic Development, 273–94. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35125-9_12.

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Gavinelli, Laura. "The Competitiveness of Italian Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)." In Business Strategies and Competitiveness in Times of Crisis, 83–168. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57810-5_3.

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Conference papers on the topic "Italian SME’s"

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"Knowledge Management, Intellectual Capital and Innovation Performance in Italian SMEs." In 20th European Conference on Knowledge Management. ACPI, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.34190/km.19.143.

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Fulantelli, Giovanni, Mario Allegra, and Antonia Zelia Pia Vitrano. "The Lack of Communication and the Need of IT for Supply-Chain Management Strategies in SMEs." In 2002 Informing Science + IT Education Conference. Informing Science Institute, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/2483.

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The term “Supply Chain Management” (SCM) denotes the creation, integration, planning and control of all elements of universal added-value chains, from the procurement of raw materials to the final delivery to the customer. IT offer huge potentials for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises to activate effective SCM mechanisms. Even though experts estimate the potential saving that can be achieved through the implementation of effective SCM strategies at 3-5 per cent of turnover, SMEs are experiencing a great deal of difficulty in coping with these strategies. Reasons for this, especially among small enterprises (50 employees and under), are to be found in the specific enterprise culture. The results presented in this paper are the outcome of an EU funded project named “Supply Chain Partnership”, a pilot project aimed at analysing the communication, social and technological obstacles to the implementation of effective SCM strategies in SMEs. The focus of this paper is on the Italian experience, and concerns an industrial district located in Sicily.
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Bandinelli, Romeo, Elisa d'Avolio, and Rinaldo Rinaldi. "Assessing the maturity of collaborative networks: A case study analysis in the Italian fashion SMEs." In 2014 International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE). IEEE, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ice.2014.6871588.

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Riva, Patrizia, and Maurizio Comoli. "The impact of the new Italian Early Warning System provided by the IC-Code on SMEs governance." In Corporate Governance: Search for the advanced practices. Virtus Interpress, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cpr19a21.

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Del Baldo, Mara. "To the roots of CSR and sustainability: the “proximity” to the territory - The Italian family SMEs’ experience." In Annual International Conference on Business Strategy and Organizational Behaviour. Global Science and Technology Forum (GSTF), 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.5176/2251-1970_bizstrategy19.

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Cagno, Enrico, and Andrea Trianni. "Energy Efficiency in Industrial Operations: An Evaluation of Benefits and Cost of the Most Effective Interventions Within the Italian Industrial Sector." In ASME 2010 4th International Conference on Energy Sustainability. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2010-90410.

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The attention towards the topic of reducing the energy expenditures has dramatically grown in recent crisis times that have forced firms to reduce them. This reduction in energy expenditures of a firm can be pursued through a wise energy procurement (we can call it “administrative energy efficiency”), thus with a reduction in the specific cost of energy (both electricity and other energy sources). But, the highest effective saving — for the whole system — would come from a direct reduction of the consumption, thus increasing the so-called “operational energy efficiency”, the unique true energy efficiency, implying the effort of the whole firm, since it requires a lower and wiser use of energy, and new and more efficient technologies. It is quite diffused the perception that governments are now taking measures to reach a common and more efficient environmental and energetic policy, but the effort is still not sufficient. The attention has obviously been paid towards the industrial sector, that covers about 30% of the consumption, second just after transportation: since now several actions have been taken to achieve the energy performance of buildings, but very few in the operations. Furthermore, it should be clear that to be really effective in this field governments should focus their attention on Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs), usually less efficient than Large Enterprises (LEs), since SMEs represent the vast majority of the total number of industries and cover a consistent share of the energy consumption of a whole domestic industrial sector. This paper aims at providing an overview of the most effective interventions for reducing energy consumption in industrial operations that have been successfully implemented in a large number of case studies investigated in North America and Europe. The paper provides different scenarios according to the implementation of those interventions, characterized all by being Best Available Technologies and Practices, showing the impact on the energy consumption for a set of Italian industrial districts. The final results show that, under certain assumptions, the financial support of the most effective interventions eventually provided by governments’ energy efficiency policies, would lead to a widespread increase of the overall energy efficiency of a district with strong benefits for the whole industrial system.
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Provasi, Roberta, and Patrizia Riva. "The special purpose acquisition company (SPAC): Evidence of a new model for the development of the Italian SMEs." In Corporate Governance: Search for the advanced practices. Virtus Interpress, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cpr19a20.

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Zarba, Carla, Gaetano Chinnici, Biagio Pecorino, Mario D'Amico, and Salvatore Bracco. "THE EUROPEAN UNION RESPONSES TO THE IMPACT OF COVID 19 ON SMEs IN THE ITALIAN AGRI-FOOD SISTEM." In 20th SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference Proceedings 2020. STEF92 Technology, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgem2020v/6.2/s08.21.

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