Location, internationalization and performance of firms in Italy: a multilevel approach

Giovannetti, Giorgia; Ricchiuti, Giorgio; Velucchi, Margherita

doi:10.1080/00036846.2012.665597

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“…Our variable of interest is the dummy measuring the participation of the firm in supply chains (SC i ). In line with the literature, we control for size, age, group, and innovation, and the firm's involvement in FDIs (see, for instance, Navaretti et al 2011;Giovannetti et al 2013;Bartoli et al 2014). We also explicitly control for the firm's network participation at local, domestic, Pieri and Zaninotto (2013), in a study on the Italian machinery tool industry, find that: ''the most efficient builders of MTs choose integrated structures, while less efficient firms choose to outsource part of their production process by buying intermediate inputs from other firms.''…”

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“…Some recent work has highlighted how traditional small suppliers can take advantage from the international fragmentation of production to engage in more complementary activities with the final firms and improve their performance (Giunta et al 2012;Agostino et al 2014). Furthermore, Italian SMEs often engage in formal and informal networking at local level (Giovannetti et al 2013), involving co-operation among specialized firms, in order to achieve collective efficiency and better performance compared to firms outside industrial districts (Becattini 1990;Brusco and Paba 1997;Di Giacinto et al 2014). External economies at district level also affect the international projection of small firms, and, therefore, their traditional sources of competitiveness (Crouch et al 2001;Becchetti and Rossi 2000).…”

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Supply chains and the internationalization of small firms

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This paper explores the relation between supply-chain participation and the internationalization of firms. We show that even small and less productive firms, if involved in production chains, can take advantage of reduced costs of entry and economies of scale that enhance their probability of exporting. The empirical analysis is carried out on an original database, obtained by merging and matching balance-sheet data with data from a survey on over 25,000 Italian firms, which include direct information on the involvement in supply chains. We find a positive and significant relation between being part of a supply chain and the probability of exporting, as well as the intensive margin of trade. The number of foreign markets served (the extensive margin), on the other hand, does not seem to be affected. We also investigate whether being in different positions along the chain, i.e., upstream or downstream, matters, and we find that downstream producers tend to benefit more. Our results are robust to different specifications, estimation methods, and the inclusion of the control variables typically used in heterogeneous firms models

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“…Other multilevel analyses within economics include Giovannetti et al (2009), Goedhuys and Srholec (2010), and Srholec (2011. Giovannetti et al (2009) analyze firm performances in Italy.…”

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The Evolution of Economic and Innovation Systems

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2015

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“…Global firms' performance and local bsiness have been found to reinforce each other (Mataloni, 2011), when local business and host countris are taken as the hinterlands of these firms, the conclusion is that size of the hinterlands is one of the impacting factors on global firms (Antras et al, 2014). Firms and provincial heterogeneity have been found to shape the internationalization of firms (Giovannettia et al, 2013), however, local and international networks influence firm internationalization processes in different ways (Anderssona, Eversb & Griot, 2013). These evidences show that global firms are impacted by the hinterlands as well as the connection of their hinterlands globally since world cities are the basic locations of global firms.…”

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How Local City and Its Hinterland Impact Global Firms: An Empirical Test of Beijing

Yao¹,

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2016

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The location of global firms in a city has been regarded as a critical factor for a world city classification. Context factors of world city at different levels have also been recently considered to influence the location of global firms. In this paper, we use dynamic factors at three levels of the host city and its hinterlands namely state (country), city, and service sector to analyse the relations between these factors and the global firms during the globalization progression of Beijing. We use comprehensive data sets from Beijing Statistical Yearbooks from 1988 to 2014 for the city, firm level, and service sector factors; and the China Statistical Yearbook for the same period for the country level (Gross Domestic Product-GDP) factor. Using a Granger causal test, we find that the relationships among the four factors are not symmetric; especially, factors of larger scopes have more significant effects on the ones of smaller scopes than vice versa. This therefore shows that global firms tend to locate at the leader city with access to the big market of the national economy.

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Location, internationalization and performance of firms in Italy: a multilevel approach

Cited by 33 publications

References 22 publications

Supply chains and the internationalization of small firms

Supply chains and the internationalization of small firms

The Evolution of Economic and Innovation Systems

How Local City and Its Hinterland Impact Global Firms: An Empirical Test of Beijing

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