Maria Carmela Schisani
Biographic Data
| ID | 4071490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Carmela Schisani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria Carmela |
| FAMILY NAME | Schisani |
| SIGNATURE | SCHISANI M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Naples Federico II |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9131-2733 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Financial globalization and peripheral integration
This article analyses the integration of Southern Italy into the first wave of financial globalization through the lens of transnational business groups (BGs) and relational infrastructures. Drawing on an original micro-level dataset and employing advanced Social Network Analysis (SNA) techniques, we map the evolving structure of business and financial relationships that connected the Neapolitan periphery to core European financial centres in the…
Marine insurance firms, business networks, and the modernisation of the financial sector in Southern Italy (1820–1900)
In this article, we study the trajectories of marine insurance companies within the Naples business network over the nineteenth century in connection with the business interests of local elites.First, we provide a detailed reconstruction of the marine insurance sector during the century, filling a gap in the literature.Second, backed by original historical and prosopographical reconstructions, the business network evolution of interlocking direct…
Crowding out the change
In this article, we study the effect of the Unification on the network power of economic elites in the South of Italy. We study the persistence of economic elites as evidence of the stability of the institutional set up beyond the effect of Unification, and thus as a primary explaining factor of the persistence of social forces slowing and opposing modernization. We use original archival data on the universe of Naples enterprises to build the net…
Networks of power and networks of capital
At the moment of Italian political unification, the Mezzogiorno (i.e. Southern Italy) was affected by a deep institutional change and it entered the wave of financial market openness, attracting all forms of investments from international capital markets. Naples – after having lost its previous role as the Bourbon kingdom’s capital city – enabled projects of large scale urban planning, beginning with basic public utilities. In this process, publi…
Networks of power and networks of capital
At the moment of Italian political unification, the Mezzogiorno (i.e. Southern Italy) was affected by a deep institutional change and it entered the wave of financial market openness, attracting all forms of investments from international capital markets. Naples – after having lost its previous role as the Bourbon kingdom’s capital city – enabled projects of large scale urban planning, beginning with basic public utilities. In this process, publi…
Networks of power and networks of capital
At the moment of Italian political unification, the Mezzogiorno (i.e. Southern Italy) was affected by a deep institutional change and it entered the wave of financial market openness, attracting all forms of investments from international capital markets. Naples – after having lost its previous role as the Bourbon kingdom’s capital city – enabled projects of large scale urban planning, beginning with basic public utilities. In this process, publi…
Crowding out the change
In this article, we study the effect of the Unification on the network power of economic elites in the South of Italy. We study the persistence of economic elites as evidence of the stability of the institutional set up beyond the effect of Unification, and thus as a primary explaining factor of the persistence of social forces slowing and opposing modernization. We use original archival data on the universe of Naples enterprises to build the net…
Marine insurance firms, business networks, and the modernisation of the financial sector in Southern Italy (1820–1900)
In this article, we study the trajectories of marine insurance companies within the Naples business network over the nineteenth century in connection with the business interests of local elites.First, we provide a detailed reconstruction of the marine insurance sector during the century, filling a gap in the literature.Second, backed by original historical and prosopographical reconstructions, the business network evolution of interlocking direct…
Financial globalization and peripheral integration
This article analyses the integration of Southern Italy into the first wave of financial globalization through the lens of transnational business groups (BGs) and relational infrastructures. Drawing on an original micro-level dataset and employing advanced Social Network Analysis (SNA) techniques, we map the evolving structure of business and financial relationships that connected the Neapolitan periphery to core European financial centres in the…
Economics (3 works) · Economy (3 works) · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism (3 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (3 works) · Market economy (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Business history (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Economic system (2 works) · Globalization (2 works)