Export, FDI and FDI-SME linkages in Armenia
I have contributed with a chapter on Export, FDI and FDI-SME linkages to the ILO EESE assessment of MSME trends and policies in Armenia
Export, FDI and FDI-SME linkages in Armenia
Books
Cross-Border Knowledge Flows through R&D FDI: Implications for Low-and Middle-Income Countries
Cross-Border Knowledge Flows through R&D FDI: Implications for Low-and Middle-Income Countries
A chapter written in collaboration with Vito Amendolagine, Cristina Chaminade and José Guimón published in Trade in knowledge: Intellectual Property, Trade and Development in a Transformed Global Economy edited by Antony Taubman and Jayashree Watal.
Available here
Italian industrial districts today. Between decline and openness to global value chains
Italian industrial districts today. Between decline and openness to global value chains
A chapter written with Valentina De Marchi and Elisa Giuliani in the book on Local Cluster in Global Value Chains edited by Maria Chiarvesio, Valentina De Marchi and Gary Gereffi.
Available here
Chinese multinational enterprises bridging technologies across home and host regions
Chinese multinational enterprises bridging technologies across home and host regions
A chapter in collaboration with Vito Amendolagine, Elisa Giuliani and Arianna Martinelli published in the book Innovative Capabilities and the Globalization of Chinese Firms: Becoming Leaders in Knowledge-intensive Innovation Ecosystems edited by Maureen McKelvey and Ju Jin.
Available here
The Role of Labour in Capability Upgrading: The Case of Emerging Market Multinationals
The Role of Labour in Capability Upgrading: The Case of Emerging Market Multinationals
A chapter published in the book Global Labor in Distress with Vito Amendolagine is available here.
The Oxford Handbook of China Innovation
Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investments and Innovation
With Vito Amendolagine and Xiaolan Fu I have contributed to the Oxford Handbook of China Innovation with a chapter on Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investments and Innovation (if you don’t have access and would you like to read the chapter, please send me an email).
Chinese investments in Europe: corporate strategies and labour relations
Chinese investments in Europe: corporate strategies and labour relations
With Vito Amendolagine I have contributed to this book edited by Jan Drahokoupil and published by ETUI with a chapter on Chinese Foreign Direct Investments in the European Union.
Here you can download the full book and here is the link to my chapter.
Exploring Firm-Level Innovation and Productivity in Developing Countries: The Perspective of Caribbean Small States
Exploring Firm-Level Innovation and Productivity in Developing Countries: The Perspective of Caribbean Small States
With Winston Moore and Andrea Presbitero I have contributed to this book with a chapter on The Gender Gap in the Caribbean: The Performance of Women-Led Firms. The paper shows that women-managed firms are in fact less productive than other comparable firms.
Here you can download our chapter and here is the link to an infographic.
Innovation and Technological Catch-Up. The Changing Geography of Wine Production
A book published by Edward Elgar and edited together with Elisa Giuliani e Andrea Morrison about changing geography in the wine industry.
Since the beginning of the 1990s, the supremacy of ‘Old World’ countries (France and Italy) in the international wine market has been challenged by new players, such as Australia, Argentina, Chile and South Africa, which are recording stunning performances in terms both of export volume and value. This book demonstrates that such a spectacular example of catch-up goes beyond simply copying new technologies; it entails creative adaptation and innovation, and introduces a new growth trajectory in which consistent investments in research and science play a key role.
«This book overturns the old paradigm ideas about natural-resource-based activities. It sheds light on the new opportunities for technological dynamism and catching-up by using science to open novel directions in traditional sectors. It should become a classic in what I expect will be a very important academic debate and a new trend in development policy.»
Carlota Perez
Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia; Cambridge University and University of Sussex, UK
«This excellent book demonstrates better than any other I know the strengths and limits of the concept of a national system of innovation for understanding economic development today. Any careful student of innovation or development will want to read it.»
Charles Sabel
Columbia Law School, USA
Here you can read the introduction,
The Changing Geography of Wine Production_Intro
Here you can read some reviews of the book,
regional studies,
AAG Review of Books,
Journal of Wine economics,
agriregionieuropa_n28,
Il Sole 24 Ore
You can buy the book here.
Federalismo e crescita: È possibile una relazione virtuosa?
Published by Franco Angeli
Edited with Stefania Lorenzini
Federalism is often described as a zero-sum game in which there is someone who gains and someone who loses, so the attention usually goes to issues about redistribution and equity. In this book, we assume a different perspective and investigate how federalism can facilitate growth and represent an opportunity for development. The papers collected here come from two different strands of the literature: the regional economic growth and its determinants and the analysis about federalism.
Economia della Corea del Sud
Published by Carocci Editore
Written together with Giovanna Hirsch and Vasco Molini
This book analyses the economic model of development of South Korea. Since the Second World War, many economists have tried to understand how a poor country could develop and reach life standards similar to rich countries. What has happened in South Korea since the 1960’s is for sure extremely interesting from a development point of view. In a few decades South Korea has transformed itself from a case basket of underdevelopment to a high-income country. In this book, we analyze the main reasons for Korea’s economic miracle and its prospects of growth for the future.
You can buy the book here
Upgrading to Compete: SMEs, Clusters and Value Chains in Latin America
Published by Harvard University Press
Edited with Carlo Pietrobelli
This books investigates clusters and value chains in Latin America. Globalization imposes new conditions and rules for competitiveness in international markets. It poses the imperative to link up with other actors, both at the local and at the global level, and find new ways to interact and learn from the relationship. Can local markets and clusters represent a powerful alternative to global markets? Do transnational corporations and global buyers play a role and enhance or undermine local firms’ upgrading and learning? What opportunities do clustering and global value chains offer to SMEs in global markets?
Upgrading to Compete shows that both the local and the global dimensions matter at once. Clustering and collaborating with other local firms offers substantial advantages, while also participating in global value chains and interacting with foreign buyers and companies may enhance local firms’ capabilities and access to distant markets. However, what remarkably matters is the form of governance of value chains and clusters that importantly affects the upgrading process of local SMEs.
The book illustrates this with original empirical evidence from several clusters in Latin America. New case studies from Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Nicaragua are supplemented by desk studies on other experiences in the region.
«At a time when there is growing interest in Latin America on active production sector strategies and on the role of SMEs, Pietrobelli and Rabellotti make in this book an essential contribution. “Upgrading to Compete” is full of quality information and insights. I look forward for the introduction of many of the ideas and recommendations of this book into policy action.»
Jose Antonio Ocampo
Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations for Economic and Social Affairs
«This book offers a new way of thinking into fundamental aspects of industrial organization and international trade and exploits original case studies to develop new ideas and stylized facts.»
Michael Piore
David W. Skinner Professor of Political Economy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The book was reviewed in Foreign Affairs
You can buy the book here
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