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From the late Sixties on, industrial development in Italy evolved through the spread of small and medium sized firms, aggregated in district networks, with an elevated propensity to enterprise and the marked presence of owner-families. Installed within the local systems, the industrial districts tended to simulate large-scale industry exploiting lower costs generated by factors that were not only economic. The districts are characterised in terms of territorial location (above all the thriving areas of the North-east and Centre) and sector, since they are concentrated in the "4 As" (clothing-fashion, home-decor, agri-foodstuffs, automation-mechanics), with some overlapping with "Made in Italy". How can this model be assessed? This is the crucial question in the debate on the condition and prospects of the Italian productive system between the supporters of its capacity to adapt and the critics of economic dwarfism. A dispassionate judgement suggests that the prospects of "small is beautiful" have been superseded, but that the "declinist" view, that sees only the dangers of globalisation and the IT revolution for our SMEs is risky. The concept of irreversible crisis that prevails at present is limiting, both because it is not easy either to "invent", or to copy, a model of industrialisation, and because there is space for a strategic repositioning of the district enterprises. The book develops considerations in this direction, showing how an evolution of the district model is possible, focusing on: gains in productivity, scope economies (through diversification and expansion of the range of products), flexibility of organisation, capacity to meld tradition and innovation aiming at product quality, dimensional growth of the enterprises, new forms of financing, active presence on the international markets and valorisation of the resources of the territory. It is hence necessary to reactivate the behavioural functions of the entrepreneurs.

This study, emerging from workshop activity carried out as part of the course on ECONOMY AND ADMINISTRATION OF CO-OPERATION AND NON-PROFIT, represents an examination of the economic-financial dimension of the work of the Tuscan voluntary organisations. It is inserted within an articulated research process devoted to an analysis of the accountability of these third sector agents, in the awareness that voluntary work has always been an important factor in civil progress. More specifically, the economic and financial information made available to the provinces as a result of the obligation on the voluntary organisations to deposit the annual financial statement has been fully exploited. This compliance has thus been transformed from a mere bureaucratic procedure into an opportunity for a collective cognitive enrichment through collection at regional level, reclassification and the aggregate analysis of the economic and financial data relating to the management reports (profit and loss accounts) of the voluntary organisations for 2004-2005. This has made it possible to underscore the nature and provenance of the economic and financial resources that accrue annually to such bodies, as well as the principal productive factors "consumed" in the performance of their activities. - Il presente studio, frutto di un'attività di laboratorio svolta all'interno dell'insegnamento di ECONOMIA E AMMINISTRAZIONE DELLA COOPERAZIONE E DEL NON PROFIT, rappresenta un esame della dimensione economico-finanziaria di esercizio delle organizzazioni di volontariato toscane. Esso si inserisce in un percorso di ricerca articolato e dedicato all'analisi dell'accountability di tali attori del terzo settore, nella consapevolezza che il volontariato rappresenta da sempre un importante fattore di progresso civile. In particolare, si è voluto far tesoro delle informazioni economico-finanziarie a disposizione delle province grazie all'obbligo di deposito del bilancio annuale da parte delle organizzazioni di volontariato. Si è proceduto a trasformare questo adempimento da semplice onere burocratico in una occasione di arricchimento conoscitivo collettivo attraverso la raccolta a livello regionale, la riclassificazione e l'analisi aggregata dei dati economico-finanziari relativi ai rendiconti gestionali (conti economici) 2004-2005 che caratterizzano il nostro volontariato. Ciò ha permesso di evidenziare la natura e la provenienza dei mezzi economico-finanziari che affluiscono annualmente a tali enti, nonché i principali fattori produttivi «consumati» nella realizzazione delle loro attività.