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Regional StudiesVolume 47, Issue 4, April 2013, Pages 465-479

The Determinants of Outsourcing and Offshoring Strategies in Industrial Districts: Evidence from Italy(Article)(Open Access)

[Les déterminants des stratégies d'externalisation et de délocalisation dans les districts industriels: Des résultats provenant de l'Italie]

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  • aSchool of Business and Economics and UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, NL-6200 MD Maastricht, Netherlands
  • bDepartment of Economics, Insubria University, via Monte Generoso, 71, I-21100 Varese, Italy
  • cKITeS - Bocconi University, via Roentgen, 1, I-20136 Milan, Italy
  • dUrban and Regional Research Centre Utrecht (URU), Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 2, NL-3508 TC Utrecht, Netherlands

Abstract

Outsourcing has increasingly become a distinguished feature of the recent evolution of industrial districts and it constitutes the object of this study. The study focuses on the industrial district of Castel Goffredo in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy, which is the largest European manufacturing area specialized in tights. It analyses the determinants of outsourcing as a function of firms' specific characteristics and how they affect the geographical reach of outsourcing relations. This firm-level analysis allows one to grasp the impact of firm heterogeneity on the outsourcing decision. © 2013 Copyright Regional Studies Association.

Author keywords

Ceramic sectorIndustrial districtsOffshoringOutsourcing

Indexed keywords

GEOBASE Subject Index:ceramicsindustrial districtmanufacturingoutsourcing
Regional Index:ItalyLombardy
  • ISSN: 00343404
  • Source Type: Journal
  • Original language: English, French
  • DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2011.571668
  • Document Type: Article

  Morrison, A.; KITeS - Bocconi University, via Roentgen, 1, Italy;
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