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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on October 24, 2006
Enterprise and Society 2006 7(4):829-832; doi:10.1093/es/khl051
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Renato Giannetti and Michelangelo Vasta. L’impresa italiana nel Novecento. Bologna, Italy: Societá Editrice il Mulino, 2003. 486 pp. ISBN 88-15-09496-2, {euro}30.00.

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Italian business history is not well known abroad. This is quite obvious. Even though Italy has been industrialized since the 1920s, it is a small country, with little international influence. Its historical patterns of evolution privileged the internal market, and although its domestic corporations have traditionally not been very active abroad, foreign firms have also manifested openly their reluctance to invest in a promising but too turbulent environment. As a result, Italian business history has from the beginning been a domestic story, scarcely appealing for foreign scholars. The Italian historiographic climate was partially responsible for this situation. Business history as a discipline has only recently been "legitimized" in Italy (still there are no chairs in the field). For a long time, the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Andrea Colli

Bocconi University, Milan


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