IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cup/buhirw/v94y2020i2p399-423_6.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Building Industrial Districts: Do Subsidies Help? Evidence from Postwar Italy

Author

Listed:
  • Spadavecchia, Anna

Abstract

The “historical alternatives” approach calls for research into the role of national institutions and public policies in the resilience or decline of industrial districts. Policies in support of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) were launched in various Western economies in the second half of the twentieth century. This article focuses on the paradigmatic Italian case and investigates the importance of government subsidies for SMEs on firms located in a southern and a northeastern district, between 1971 and 1991. This discussion deepens our understanding of the role of national policies in the reemergence of industrial districts in the decades of the Second Industrial Divide. It also indicates the importance of firms’ utilization of subsidies and their ecosystem as complementary to the policy's effectiveness.

Suggested Citation

  • Spadavecchia, Anna, 2020. "Building Industrial Districts: Do Subsidies Help? Evidence from Postwar Italy," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 94(2), pages 399-423, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:buhirw:v:94:y:2020:i:2:p:399-423_6
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S000768051900117X/type/journal_article
    File Function: link to article abstract page
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cup:buhirw:v:94:y:2020:i:2:p:399-423_6. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Kirk Stebbing (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.cambridge.org/bhr .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.