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The Italian Clothing Industry Association (AIIA) was the first employers' association founded to protect the interests of the nascent Italian ready-to-wear industry. According to the literature on the subject, there were three factors that allowed business interest associations (BIAs) to operate effectively at a meso-organizational level: their internal organizational structure, the activities of bureaucratic support of companies and lobbying in defense of entrepreneurs' interests, as well as the ability to adapt to the more general context in which they worked. Based on a detailed empirical analysis, this article examines what the AIIA accomplished in each of these three areas. There are two objectives: (1) analyzing the circumstances that led the AIIA to fail in its purposes of representing the Italian ready-to-wear industry, and (2) investigating, in a typical creative industry, the hidden costs in terms of competitiveness of BIAs' planning efforts and their consequences for the creation of an efficient and internationally competitive fashion system.

The 1960s proved to be a crucial decade for the emergent Italian fashion industry. In these pages, we seek to demonstrate that in Italy, an evolution of demand took place, structurally different from the Fifties, causing fundamental changes which impacted upon supply. This was a decisive change in the path which led Italy to complete the establishment of an authentic fashion system.Interest in the question is two-fold. The formalization of relations between players in the Italian fashion industry using systematic logic facilitated the positioning of the made in Italy brand at the pinnacle of the world market: understanding the underlying mechanism of this process is useful for the identification of the characteristics of an Italian model, distinct from those of other countries which make up the history of the fashion industry. Analyses of the reference settings and development methods of the Italian fashion system can represent a further key to understanding the characteristics and the context in which the social transformation of post-war Italy took place.

Le origini dell'idea di un collegamento idroviario fra il Canton Ticino e l'Adriatico imperniato sull'asse Milano-Venezia risalgono agli anni Quaranta dell'Ottocento, quando alcuni studiosi lombardi, riprendendo considerazioni già emerse in età napoleonica, posero la questione al centro del dibattito economico e politico. L'obiettivo era quello di dotare una macroregione europea in espansione di un moderno sistema di canali navigabili utili tanto all'agricoltura quanto alle manifatture e ai commerci. Tale esigenza, rafforzata alla fine del secolo dall'avvio dell'industrializzazione e considerata strategica dalle istituzioni non solo locali nei primi decenni del Novecento, trovò nuovo slancio nell'immediato secondo dopoguerra. L'area interessata, infatti, presentava aspetti economici e sociali che lasciavano presagire un rapido e costante incremento dei traffici tale da giustificare un'ambiziosa infrastruttura.