Lidia Greco
Biographic Data
| ID | 6430615 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lidia Greco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lidia |
| FAMILY NAME | Greco |
| SIGNATURE | GRECO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bari Aldo Moro |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3427-2683 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Governing socio-ecological transition in an industrial city
This article examines the governance of the socio-ecological transition in the industrial city of Taranto (Italy) as it strives to move beyond its historical dependence on the steel industry and towards a more sustainable model of development. Based on the qualitative evidence, the article shows the protagonism of local public institutions, namely, the Puglia Region and the Municipality of Taranto. Through a mix of ideational, political, and econ…
Luxury economy and uneven regional development in two case studies
Luxury is a major international sector and a significant area of interest for both scholars and policymakers, primarily because of its economic relevance and transversal nature. It generates positive direct effects, particularly in terms of employment and income, while a range of indirect effects are also associated with the sector. At the same time, luxury is frequently criticised for its environmental impact, for the production of low-quality a…
Widening the web. Applying a production network approach to the cultural and creative sectors
This paper argues that to understand the Cultural and Creative Sectors (CCS) we need a wholesale re-conceptualisation of its economic organisation to render visible its production system. We counter the model of the sole artist engaged in craft production, or the corporate industrialised mass production of commercial products, with a more nuanced model of cultural production (eco-)systems which does not depart from location, but instead from orga…
Capturing the achievements made by Interreg? Insights from cross border cooperation between Spain and Portugal
In recent years, ‘place-based’ interventions have become influential in shaping economic development policy, especially at the European level. From the 2007 to 2013 programming period onwards, EU Cohesion policy, adopted a ‘place-based’ approach to encourage the competitiveness of all regions. Rather than spatially-blind interventions, the focus is on tackling territorial inequalities via a more sophisticated spatially-sensitive approach to stimu…
I confini dell'impresa, il lavoro e le regole tra globale e locale
L'articolo ricostruisce il percorso e le acquisizioni della letteratura sociologica sul tema dei "confini dell'impresa" nel loro intreccio con le norme giuridiche e le istituzioni regolative. In particolare, si focalizzerà su tre nodi sviluppati da questa letteratura: il riconoscimento della sostanziale natura di "arbitraggio regolativo" dei processi organizzativi di frammentazione e di scomposizione della produzione e la centralità degli assetti…
Ecologie operaie a Taranto
Solo negli ultimi due decenni il mondo del lavoro e sindacale a diversi livelli ha inserito nella propria agenda la questione ambientale, accanto alla tradizionale attenzione riservata alla sicurezza sul lavoro e alla salute. Il passaggio ad un’economia verde, ecologicamente attenta, viene generalmente rappresentato come una opportunità da cogliere; tuttavia esso avrà inevitabilmente un impatto differenziato tra settori economici, tra regioni e t…
The state in chains
In Apulia (Southern Italy), the adverse incorporation of local suppliers within global production networks (GPNs) in the tomato and textile-clothing industries has reinforced the processes of informalization and exploitation of a segmented workforce. In contrast with the literature that identifies the state as a residual regulator, or a mere facilitator of GPNs, we show that the state is called to intervene to ease the social costs of adverse inc…
Path-dependence and change in an old industrial area
The article aims to contribute to the debate on path-dependence by providing qualitative \nevidence on the case of the steel area of Taranto (Italy), which is still host to the largest \nsteel plant in Europe. The article seeks to make two related contributions. First, it seeks to \nidentify and discuss the possible causes of Taranto’s path-dependence by highlighting their \nspecific features. Second, it gives evidence to a dynamic social process…
Individualization and Equality
Some feminist writings have claimed that `bureaucracy' is inherently `patriarchal'. This article challenges this argument by comparing the experience of women in Ireland in a state sector organization and in a cluster of software firms. While the bureaucratic state company has been reformed to incorporate equal opportunities, in the individualized or `marketized' software companies women's progress is at the whim of individual managers and mother…
Geographies of Growth, Decline and Restructuring
This article deals with the recent evolution of the Italian steel industry and of steel-making activities in two localities in the Mezzogiorno. After providing an account of the rise and fall of the public steel sector in Italy and its role in shifting the industry’s centre of gravity to the South, it concentrates on a conceptually informed discussion of the remarkable rise of northern mini-mill operations and the subsequent acquisition by a few …
Knowledge-Intensive Organisations
This article investigates the contention that the organisation of work and the model of industrial relations in knowledge intensive companies are less iniquitous for women than in other industries. It does so by analysing a series of biographical interviews conducted with a number of women working in the Irish software sector. In contrast to bureaucracies, knowledge intensive companies promote time flexibility, collaborative work environments, im…
After the Three Italies
An Institutionalist Approach to Redundancies in the Chemical Industry
The paper explores the relevance of an institutionalist approach to industrial unemployment by examining the transformations that have occurred in the chemical industry of two industrial areas: Teesside (UK) and Brindisi (Italy). It assumes that processes of industrial restructuring and redundancies are shaped by (and shape) a complex matrix of institutions that affect corporate definitions of economic rationality and mediate their employment str…
Institutional and industrial changes in the Italian South
This article proposes an institutionalist reading of the processes of industrial and employment change taking place in the clothing industry in Brindisi, Italy, during the 1990s. In contrast to more orthodox economic interpretations that focus on the separation between the economy and institutions, this article assumes the centrality of institutions for an understanding of industrial and employment performances and their change over time. Institu…
Path-dependence and change in an old industrial area
The article aims to contribute to the debate on path-dependence by providing qualitative \nevidence on the case of the steel area of Taranto (Italy), which is still host to the largest \nsteel plant in Europe. The article seeks to make two related contributions. First, it seeks to \nidentify and discuss the possible causes of Taranto’s path-dependence by highlighting their \nspecific features. Second, it gives evidence to a dynamic social process…
Geographies of Growth, Decline and Restructuring
This article deals with the recent evolution of the Italian steel industry and of steel-making activities in two localities in the Mezzogiorno. After providing an account of the rise and fall of the public steel sector in Italy and its role in shifting the industry’s centre of gravity to the South, it concentrates on a conceptually informed discussion of the remarkable rise of northern mini-mill operations and the subsequent acquisition by a few …
The state in chains
In Apulia (Southern Italy), the adverse incorporation of local suppliers within global production networks (GPNs) in the tomato and textile-clothing industries has reinforced the processes of informalization and exploitation of a segmented workforce. In contrast with the literature that identifies the state as a residual regulator, or a mere facilitator of GPNs, we show that the state is called to intervene to ease the social costs of adverse inc…
An Institutionalist Approach to Redundancies in the Chemical Industry
The paper explores the relevance of an institutionalist approach to industrial unemployment by examining the transformations that have occurred in the chemical industry of two industrial areas: Teesside (UK) and Brindisi (Italy). It assumes that processes of industrial restructuring and redundancies are shaped by (and shape) a complex matrix of institutions that affect corporate definitions of economic rationality and mediate their employment str…
Institutional and industrial changes in the Italian South
This article proposes an institutionalist reading of the processes of industrial and employment change taking place in the clothing industry in Brindisi, Italy, during the 1990s. In contrast to more orthodox economic interpretations that focus on the separation between the economy and institutions, this article assumes the centrality of institutions for an understanding of industrial and employment performances and their change over time. Institu…
An Institutionalist Approach to Redundancies in the Chemical Industry
The paper explores the relevance of an institutionalist approach to industrial unemployment by examining the transformations that have occurred in the chemical industry of two industrial areas: Teesside (UK) and Brindisi (Italy). It assumes that processes of industrial restructuring and redundancies are shaped by (and shape) a complex matrix of institutions that affect corporate definitions of economic rationality and mediate their employment str…
Knowledge-Intensive Organisations
This article investigates the contention that the organisation of work and the model of industrial relations in knowledge intensive companies are less iniquitous for women than in other industries. It does so by analysing a series of biographical interviews conducted with a number of women working in the Irish software sector. In contrast to bureaucracies, knowledge intensive companies promote time flexibility, collaborative work environments, im…
After the Three Italies
Geographies of Growth, Decline and Restructuring
This article deals with the recent evolution of the Italian steel industry and of steel-making activities in two localities in the Mezzogiorno. After providing an account of the rise and fall of the public steel sector in Italy and its role in shifting the industry’s centre of gravity to the South, it concentrates on a conceptually informed discussion of the remarkable rise of northern mini-mill operations and the subsequent acquisition by a few …
Individualization and Equality
Some feminist writings have claimed that `bureaucracy' is inherently `patriarchal'. This article challenges this argument by comparing the experience of women in Ireland in a state sector organization and in a cluster of software firms. While the bureaucratic state company has been reformed to incorporate equal opportunities, in the individualized or `marketized' software companies women's progress is at the whim of individual managers and mother…
Path-dependence and change in an old industrial area
The article aims to contribute to the debate on path-dependence by providing qualitative \nevidence on the case of the steel area of Taranto (Italy), which is still host to the largest \nsteel plant in Europe. The article seeks to make two related contributions. First, it seeks to \nidentify and discuss the possible causes of Taranto’s path-dependence by highlighting their \nspecific features. Second, it gives evidence to a dynamic social process…
The state in chains
In Apulia (Southern Italy), the adverse incorporation of local suppliers within global production networks (GPNs) in the tomato and textile-clothing industries has reinforced the processes of informalization and exploitation of a segmented workforce. In contrast with the literature that identifies the state as a residual regulator, or a mere facilitator of GPNs, we show that the state is called to intervene to ease the social costs of adverse inc…
Ecologie operaie a Taranto
Solo negli ultimi due decenni il mondo del lavoro e sindacale a diversi livelli ha inserito nella propria agenda la questione ambientale, accanto alla tradizionale attenzione riservata alla sicurezza sul lavoro e alla salute. Il passaggio ad un’economia verde, ecologicamente attenta, viene generalmente rappresentato come una opportunità da cogliere; tuttavia esso avrà inevitabilmente un impatto differenziato tra settori economici, tra regioni e t…
I confini dell'impresa, il lavoro e le regole tra globale e locale
L'articolo ricostruisce il percorso e le acquisizioni della letteratura sociologica sul tema dei "confini dell'impresa" nel loro intreccio con le norme giuridiche e le istituzioni regolative. In particolare, si focalizzerà su tre nodi sviluppati da questa letteratura: il riconoscimento della sostanziale natura di "arbitraggio regolativo" dei processi organizzativi di frammentazione e di scomposizione della produzione e la centralità degli assetti…
Capturing the achievements made by Interreg? Insights from cross border cooperation between Spain and Portugal
In recent years, ‘place-based’ interventions have become influential in shaping economic development policy, especially at the European level. From the 2007 to 2013 programming period onwards, EU Cohesion policy, adopted a ‘place-based’ approach to encourage the competitiveness of all regions. Rather than spatially-blind interventions, the focus is on tackling territorial inequalities via a more sophisticated spatially-sensitive approach to stimu…
Governing socio-ecological transition in an industrial city
This article examines the governance of the socio-ecological transition in the industrial city of Taranto (Italy) as it strives to move beyond its historical dependence on the steel industry and towards a more sustainable model of development. Based on the qualitative evidence, the article shows the protagonism of local public institutions, namely, the Puglia Region and the Municipality of Taranto. Through a mix of ideational, political, and econ…
Luxury economy and uneven regional development in two case studies
Luxury is a major international sector and a significant area of interest for both scholars and policymakers, primarily because of its economic relevance and transversal nature. It generates positive direct effects, particularly in terms of employment and income, while a range of indirect effects are also associated with the sector. At the same time, luxury is frequently criticised for its environmental impact, for the production of low-quality a…
Widening the web. Applying a production network approach to the cultural and creative sectors
This paper argues that to understand the Cultural and Creative Sectors (CCS) we need a wholesale re-conceptualisation of its economic organisation to render visible its production system. We counter the model of the sole artist engaged in craft production, or the corporate industrialised mass production of commercial products, with a more nuanced model of cultural production (eco-)systems which does not depart from location, but instead from orga…
Political science (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Market economy (4 works) · Regional resilience and development (4 works) · Art (2 works)