Los distritos industriales italianos y su repercusión en el desarrollo de las pequeñas y medianas empresas

Abstract

This article focuses on the advantages derived from the external economies that the small and medium companies belonging to the Italian industrial districts can obtain and its relationship with the concept of local development in the territory where the agglomeration is produced. For the above, a historical genesis of the district concept, from the author Alfred Marshall, is reconstructed. There is also an analysis of how these ideas were rescued by Giacomo Becattini adapting them to the Italian industrial reality during the seventies. The model is of special relevancy in the industrial economic school since it has broken with the old paradigm of the vertically integrated company