Entrepreneurial Growth in Industrial Districts illustrates that Industrial
Districts (ID) have dramatically changed over the past three decades; the Marshallian
notion of a cluster of small firms has been vastly transformed by the emergence of rapidly
growing firms.
This book stems from the contributors’ academic and professional experience in
the fields of Italian industrial districts, strategic management and entrepreneurship. The
authors highlight the need to understand and identify how entrepreneurial growth can be
effectively sustained in ID firms. Four case studies (Alessi, Geox, Illycaffé, Luxottica)
are then utilized to demonstrate the process of ID firms’ growth via the lens of
corporate entrepreneurship.
This unique book will be highly regarded by undergraduate students and researchers in the
fields of entrepreneurship and industrial districts. Practitioners as entrepreneurs and
policy makers will also find this book of great interest given the appealing domain of the
book ‘Made in Italy’ and the substantial sections dedicated to case histories.
Fernando G. Alberti, Assistant Professor of Strategic
Entrepreneurship, LIUC University, Italy, Salvatore Sciascia, Assistant
Professor of Business Administration, Universita IULM, Italy, Carmine Tripodi,
Assistant Professor of Strategic Management, University of Valle d’Aosta and SDA
Bocconi, Italy and Federico Visconti, Professor of Business
Administration, University of Valle d’Aosta and SDA Bocconi, Italy
Contents:
1. Introduction
Part I: Industrial Districts and Firm-Level Entrepreneurship
2. Industrial Districts and Firms
3. The Concept of Firm-Level Entrepreneurship
4. Firm-Level Entrepreneurship as a Framework of Analysis
Part II: Four Italian Cases
5. Alessi
6. Geox
7. Illycaffe
8. Luxottica
Part III: Entrepreneurial Growth in Industrial Districts
9. Cross-case Analysis
10. Discussion and Conclusion
References Index
288 pages, Hardcover