@article {578,
	title = {Vertical relatedness and services outsourcing: A firm-level analysis},
	journal = {Industrial and Corporate Change},
	volume = {28},
	year = {2019},
	pages = {753-771},
	publisher = {Oxford University Press},
	abstract = {<p>This paper analyzes the relationship between local-level vertical relatedness and firms{\textquoteright} services outsourcing, using a data set of 46,671 Italian manufacturing firms observed over the period 1999-2007. The analysis uses a firm-level index of services outsourcing based on the Adelman index, and it proposes a new measure of vertical relatedness. Overall, the results suggest that it is not agglomeration per se that matters for services outsourcing but rather the presence of vertically related industries. The role of firm-level heterogeneity in terms of size, geographic location, and technological regime also emerges. {\textcopyright} 2018 The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Associazione ICC. All rights reserved.</p>
},
	keywords = {data set, heterogeneity, Italy, manufacturing, outsourcing},
	issn = {09606491},
	doi = {10.1093/icc/dty038},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85073530269\&doi=10.1093\%2ficc\%2fdty038\&partnerID=40\&md5=d73132d61bc21fff0464b43c83894926},
	author = {Cainelli, G. and Ganau, R. and Iacobucci, D.}
}
@article {586,
	title = {Local variety and firm diversification: An evolutionary economic geography perspective},
	journal = {Journal of Economic Geography},
	volume = {16},
	year = {2016},
	pages = {1079-1100},
	publisher = {Oxford University Press},
	abstract = {<p>The aim of this article is to investigate whether and how local agglomeration forces-related and unrelated variety-influence firm diversification. Using a large dataset of 5112 Italian manufacturing business groups for the year 2001, and estimating Tobit models, we show the {\textquoteright}consistency{\textquoteright} between the patterns of firm diversification and that of the local system in which the firm is located. Specifically, firms located in local systems dominated by unrelated variety are more likely to show unrelated diversification patterns, while firms located in local systems dominated by related variety are more likely to show related diversification patterns. This supports the Evolutionary Economic Geography prediction of firm similarity {\textquoteright}within{\textquoteright} the same local system, and firm heterogeneity {\textquoteright}between{\textquoteright} different local systems. {\textcopyright} The Author (2015). Published by Oxford University Press.</p>
},
	keywords = {agglomeration, economic geography, heterogeneity, Italy, manufacturing},
	issn = {14682702},
	doi = {10.1093/jeg/lbv040},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84991358593\&doi=10.1093\%2fjeg\%2flbv040\&partnerID=40\&md5=2df594c1e634fdf0a03cda9b19d3f804},
	author = {Cainelli, G. and Iacobucci, D.}
}
