List of illustrations ....................................... ix
List of contributors ....................................... xii
1 Introduction: firms, technology and globalisation
NICOLA DE LISO AND RICCARDO LEONCINI ......................... 1
PART I
Technological change, firms' organisation and incentives ....... 29
2 The production process as a complex, dynamic and ordered
world ....................................................... 31
MAURO LOMBARDI
3 Incumbents' strategies for platform competition: shaping
the boundaries of creative destruction ...................... 66
STEFANO BRUSONI AND ROBERTO FONTANA
4 Linking technological change to organisational dynamics:
some insights from a pseudo-NK model ........................ 89
TOMMASO CIARLI, RICCARDO LEONCINI, SANDRO MONTRESOR AND
MARCO VALENTE
5 Technological persistence through R&D on an old technology:
the 'sailing ship effect' .................................. 119
NICOLA DE LISO AND GIOVANNI FILATRELLA
6 Software patents and firms' strategic behaviour in the
EU: some empirical insights
FRANCESCO RENTOCCHINI AND GIUDITTA DE PRATO
PART II
Fragmentation and internationalisation of firms and of local
systems of production.......................................... 161
7 Does spatial proximity matter? Micro-evidence from Italy ... 163
GIULIO СAINELLI AND CLAUDIO LUPI
8 Internationalization in Italian medium-sized firms: does
stage theory explain the observed patterns? ................ 187
DONATO IACOBUCCI AND FRANCESCA SPIGARELLI
9 Production offshoring and the skill composition of
Italian manufacturing firms: a counterfactual analysis ..... 210
ROBERTO ANTONIETTI AND DAVIDE ANTONIOLI
10 A global network and its local ties: restructuring of the
Benetton Group ............................................. 239
PAOLO CRESTANELLO AND GIUSEPPE TATTARA
Index ...................................................... 259
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