Italian Industrial Districts: Nature, Structure, and Value Creation

Abstract

The high performance levels gained by firms of Italian industrial districts raised both the international economic and managerial scientific communities’ interest and stimulated the production of a series of research studies concerning the micro as well as the macro level of analysis. This chapter aims to identify, describe, and interpret the phenomenon of Italian industrial districts with a specific focus on the analysis of the sources and the forms of value creation in light of the last 30 years of scientific research