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Activity Number:
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379
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 9, 2006 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Business and Economics Statistics Section
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| Abstract - #306710 |
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Title:
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Competitiveness Analysis of the Italian Firms: Use of Robust Classification Methods
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Author(s):
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Matilde Bini*+ and Luigi Biggeri
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Companies:
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University of Florence and Italian National Statistical Institute
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Address:
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Viale Morgagni 59, Florence, 50134, Italy
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Keywords:
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competitiveness ; cluster analysis ; forward search ; multivariate transformation ; robustness
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Abstract:
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In Italy, during the last ten years there as been a fall of the competitiveness in comparison with most important European and extra European countries. The main causes of this phenomenon are due to the poor development of the total productivity of the firms, related to the low investments in innovation of processes, products and organizational structure of the firms, and to the revaluation of the Euro in comparison with the dollar. The aim of this work is to carry out some analyses and produce results that could be used to implement intervention policies to improve competitiveness among firms. The hypothesis is that the Italian firms are very heterogeneous as competitiveness and that their results depend on their performances. Therefore our objective is also to try to detect groups of firms that reached different results in relations to their different characteristics.
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