Category: Supply chains, sectors and districts

This thematic area deals with the analysis of sectors and supply chains in the various manufacturing and territorial entities, ranging from the local to the national and European level, through qualitative and quantitative research methods. The structure, relationships and evolutionary dynamics of companies in the various manufacturing and service sectors are analyzed.

A special attention is paid to the structural characteristics, development strategies and performance of the various companies, assessed both individually and in relation to the sector, supply chain, network, district or cluster to which they belong. The research project also focuses on the analysis of innovative processes and how they contribute to introduce change both in companies and in the organization and quality of work.

The topics under study are:

Economic trends of companies and sectors;
Supply chain, network, district and cluster relations;
Innovative processes;
Implications of business and supply chain evolutionary dynamics for work and the territory;
Implications of company and supply chain evolutionary dynamics for industrial policies.