Italian Big Business and The Italian Automotive Industry. Fiat Internationalization in the Vittorio Valletta Era and its ongoing Reorganization (1946-1972)

Casalino Chiara
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Casalino Chiara: Chivasso (TO), Italien

Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, 2010, vol. 51, issue 1, 89-106

Abstract: An international dimension has characterized the automotive industry since its origins, both as far as supply is concerned, where the car product results from the convergence of a series of multiple design innovations and continuous improvements in manufacturing processes, and as far as demand is concerned, given the narrowness of the home markets and the homogeneity of the buyers′ social peculiarities. One observation is particularly appropriate in the case of Italy: in the early twentieth century, Fiat was already making some two thirds of its turnover from sales on foreign markets and, absorbing more than 60 percent of vehicles produced in the twenties and again 35-40 per cent at the end of the next decade, this proved to be the preferred outlet for its production.

Date: 2010
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