Local economic governance in hard times
The shadow economy and the textile and clothing industries around Lodz and Naples
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4237649 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Luigi Burroni (0000-0002-3757-8100, University of Teramo), C Crouch (0000-0002-7222-8456, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies), Monika Ewa Kaminska (0000-0003-2207-3289, University of Amsterdam), Andrea Valzania (0000-0003-3808-6826, University of Florence) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 473-492 |
| Publication date | 2008-04-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Socio-Economic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1475-1461 • E-ISSN: 1475-147X |
| DOI | 10.1093/ser/mwn005 |
| OpenAlex | W2051335052 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 8 |
Areas of industrial decline, with poor quality local government and poor infrastructure, frequently find a kind of economic success through the shadow economy. But illegality imposes constraints on the kind of success that can be achieved. The study of such areas in central Poland and southern Italy reveals considerable similarities, despite the fact that the former was part of the former state socialist bloc, the latter not. In both regions, small and medium-sized textile and clothing firms were flourishing within the limits of the shadow economy following the collapse of large corporations in the area. There were however, important differences. Italian public policy has provided some possible routes out of the shadow economy, and its distinctive governance, which has been taken advantage of to a limited extent by firms, while Polish policy continues to deny that the problem exists. Also, because of the presence of leading clothing brands elsewhere in Italy, southern Italian firms have access to routes for upgrading their activities that are largely unavailable to their polish counterparts
Business · Clothing · Corporate governance · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Flourishing · Government (linguistics · Market economy · Political science · Shadow (psychology · State (computer science · Employment and Welfare Studies · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Taxation and Compliance Studies
Flexicurity
From Institutional Change to Experimentalist Institutions
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Identifying and Mapping Industrial Districts Through a Spatially Constrained Cluster‐Wise Regression Approach
Obstacles to local cooperation in fragmented, left-behind economies
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Is tourism effective in mitigating the shadow economy in developing countries? Evidence from China
County-Level Patterns of Undeclared Work
Can informal economic activities be explained by social and institutional factors? A comparative analysis
Bonding Social Capital in a Postcommunist Region
The Impact of Fiscal Policy and Deregulation on Shadow Economies in Transition Countries
The Evolution of Post-socialist Projects
The Development of Open‐air Markets in East‐Central Europe
The Unofficial Economy in Transition
The Informal Sector in Developed and Less Developed Countries
From the Multicoloured to the Black and White Economy
| Unique citing works | 10 |
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| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |