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The Italian North-West after Olivetti, between De-industrialization and the Declining of the Large Company

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  • Paolo Bricco

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The paper analyses the industrial system of the North-West area in Italy, the declining of its large companies and the rising of local SMEs. This long process was created by the declining of the State-owned large companies, the emerging of a new generation of entrepreneurship, the general shift towards the post-industrial society. Within this contest, Olivetti is a paradigmatic case: Olivetti was a European leader in the personal computer industry, and in a very short time it collapsed. Its competitive advantage disappeared, and the Ivrea area was affected by unemployment and social problems. But in few years, a new industrial system came to light: it is mainly composed of SMEs in the mechanical sector, the «old» sector from which Olivetti started at the beginning of the XX century. Could we interpret this process as a sort of «technological reversion» of the local industrial system?

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  • Paolo Bricco, 2010. "The Italian North-West after Olivetti, between De-industrialization and the Declining of the Large Company," L'industria, Società editrice il Mulino, issue 4, pages 661-672.
    • Handle: RePEc:mul:j0hje1:doi:10.1430/33383:y:2010:i:4:p:661-672
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