Improving organizational participation is becoming more and more important as organizations are trying to shift from a bureaucratic model based on work specialization and division of labor towards knowledge-intensive organizations built on competence sharing and team working. The aim of this...

Recently, Social Network Analysis (SNA) has emerged has one of the most innovative fields of management research and it is growlingly popular in the business community as well. We claim that one of the reasons for this success is the fact that SNA supports the Post-Fordist model of organization:...

The aim of this article is to extend the concept of identity and identification to the study of industrial districts. The theoretical model presented explains how identity and identification occur within localized production networks and examines how the process of identification affects the...

According to the dominant literature, spatial proximity matters for successful inter-firm collaboration for innovation and more generally for knowledge transfer. This assumption is based on the argument that the tacit character of complex knowledge makes repetitive face-to-face interactions and...

This study furnishes empirical evidence from the biomedical district of Mirandola (Italy) with the aim to offer two distinct contributions to the literature on industrial districts. The first objective is to challenge the stereotyped model of Italian industrial districts whose claimed...

Becattini’s (1979, 1989, 1990) “simple” redefinition of the research object from “industry” to “district,” that is, from a product/market-based definition to a territory-based one, allowed for an enlargement of the scope of economic analysis which has shown complex interactions...