Company relationships in a technological district: The case of the Turin automotive industry
Contributo in Atti di convegno
Data di Pubblicazione:
2000
Abstract:
The paper is focused on the company relationships among the small and medium sized
firms of the supply-chain of Fiat. We consider how the "second-tier"
suppliers - i.e. the sub-contractors mainly composed of small firms that usually do not
have commercial relations with Fiat - deal with the first-tier suppliers, i.e. MNEs that
have direct relationship with Fiat. The descriptive statistics of the study is based on a
sample of 79 firms, within 7 different supply chains of first-tier companies of the Turin area.
After a description of the automotive district of Turin, the second section of the paper
considers the main characteristics of our sample of 79 suppliers, from the quantitative
and qualitative point of view. Within the third section we study the company
relationships according to some quantitative indicators, such as the value, the weight
and the dynamics (1998-1993) of the commercial relations. The fourth section is about
the qualitative characteristics of the company relationships: production organization,
labour organization, just-in-time, contractual systems, innovation process, co-design,
simultaneous engineering, etc. A final section summarises the main findings of the
study.
Tipologia CRIS:
04.01 Contributo in Atti di convegno
Keywords:
industrial district; automotive
Elenco autori:
Vitali, Giampaolo
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Titolo del libro:
Proceedings of 40th ERSA European Congress of the Regional Science Association, Barcelona, Aug.30-Sep.2, 2000