1st Edition
Manufacturing Digitalization in Italy The Future Behind
Introduction: The digital transition and smart manufacturing
Francesco Ramella and Alberto Gherardini
1. The digitalisation of Manufacturing
Gianmaria Pessina Gianluca Scarano
2. Organizational digitalisation
Maurizio Catino, Lia Tirabeni, Sara Rocchi and Gemma Scalise
3. Industrial and territorial policies for digitalisation
Luigi Burroni, Beatrice Bianconi, Sara De Martino
4. Skills and training in Italy’s digital manufacturing: regional trajectories in comparative perspective
Pasquale Emanuele De Girolamo, Carmela Guarascio and Emmanuele. Pavolini
5. Regional digitalisation systems
Alberto Gherardini and Francesco Ramella
6. Networks, actors and institutions of the regional digitalization systems
Lorenzo Bazzano, Gianluca Scarano, Gianmaria Pessina and Marco Di Gregorio
7. Digitalisation and southern Italy: challenges and new divides
Paola De Vivo, Andrea Biagiotti and Antonio Russo
8. An Overview
Alberto Gherardini and Francesco Ramella
Methodological Appendix
Marco Di Gregorio, Gianmaria Pessina and Lia Tirabeni
Bibliography
Biography
Francesco Ramella is Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Turin, Italy, where he is Director of the Luigi Bobbio Center for Public and Applied Social Research. He co-founded and served as the first president of the Italian Society of Economic Sociology. He is a member of the editorial and scientific boards of Stato e Mercato (which he directed from 2011 to 2015) and Sociologias. His previous books with Routledge include The Economy of Collaboration (2020) and The Sociology of Economic Innovation (2016).
Alberto Gherardini is Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Turin, where he works on innovation and industrial policies, regional development and employment relations. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Florence. His work has appeared in journals such as Higher Education Policy, International Journal of Sociology, Journal of European Integration, Scientometrics, South European Society and Politics, Stato e Mercato and Transfer.
