European Acquisitions in the United States: Re-Examining Olivetti-Underwood Fifty Years Later

Amidei, Federico Barbiellini; Goldstein, Andrea; Spadoni, Marcella

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“…Bereft of its two leaders, the program remained resource-intensive, with sale profits absorbed by heavy R&D costs, despite its reorganization to form the Olivetti Electronic Division (DEO) in Spring 1962. Moreover, Adriano Olivetti had launched an acquisition of the American typewriter maker Underwood in 1959, which resulted in major financial stresses [9] and the Italian government was not supporting Olivetti, unaware of the strategic importance of the new technology. In order to cope with these issues, Olivetti's share capital was expanded, opening the company to new shareholders, including some major Italian companies and banks, in May 1964.…”

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Early Italian Computers: Mario Tchou's ELEA 9003 [Historical]

Guarnieri¹

2020

EEE Ind. Electron. Mag.

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Early Italian Computers: Mario Tchou's ELEA 9003 [Historical]

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2020

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“…It also focused on electronic calculators, which were very successful. Olivetti eventually developed into a major player in the fields of electronics and office equipment with a total of 73,300 employees in 1970 (47% of whom were in Italy) and a strong international presence (Barbiellini Amidei, Goldstein, & Spadoni, 2010;Castagnoli, 2014).…”

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Globalization and Institutional Change in Italian Industrial Districts

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Conserva

2018

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During the 1980s and 1990s, Italian industrial districts and their internal economic structure became a major field of academic inquiry in the social sciences, receiving a lot of attention as an alternative regional industry configuration that successfully resisted the trend toward mass production and large-firm dominance during the Fordist era. Especially the so-called Third Italy was celebrated for its ability to achieve growth on the basis of an agglomeration of small and medium-sized firms that were closely linked through regional production networks (

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The Oxford Handbook of the Italian Economy Since Unification

Toniolo¹

2013

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A new economic history of Italy since the country's political unification in 1861. New data and interpretations by leading international economic historians and brilliant young Italian economists to reconsider the relatively little-known story of a latecomer to "modern economic growth", who rapidly caught up with the advanced Western countries. Fresh research includes: a new set of national accounts covering the entire period 1861-2011, standard of living indicators (including income distribution from the late nineteenth century onward), productivity levels and growth rates, human and social capital, migrations, real exchange rates and changes in comparative advantages, firm size, patents, the evolution of public debt, measures and explanations of the regional divide, the allocation of credit, and data on the changing efficiency of the administrative system. The book takes a strong comparative stance to illuminate the traits of Italy's growth pattern that are common to the Western experience of "modern economic growth" and those that are idiosyncratic to the Peninsula, as well as to see how and when this medium-sized open economy successfully rode the expansionary waves of the world economy. In this vein, the book explains the rapid catch-up growth during both the pre-1914 first globalization and the second post-war "golden age" of Western capitalism, as well as the less satisfactory performances in the first decades after unification and during the recent "second globalization".

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European Acquisitions in the United States: Re-Examining Olivetti-Underwood Fifty Years Later

Cited by 71 publications

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Early Italian Computers: Mario Tchou's ELEA 9003 [Historical]

Early Italian Computers: Mario Tchou's ELEA 9003 [Historical]

Globalization and Institutional Change in Italian Industrial Districts

The Oxford Handbook of the Italian Economy Since Unification

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