Multinational Strategies and Outward-Processing Trade between Italy and the CEECs: The Case of Textile-Clothing

Giovanni Balcet () and Giampaolo Vitali
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Giovanni Balcet: University of Turin, Dipartimento di Economia, Via Po 53, 10124 Torino, Italy

CERIS Working Paper from CNR-IRCrES Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth - Torino (TO) ITALY - former Institute for Economic Research on Firms and Growth - Moncalieri (TO) ITALY

Abstract: The paper is focused on the internationalisation process of the Italian firms within the textile-clothing industry. According to the economic literature on this topics, the Italian industry, as well as the textile-clothing sector, seem to be a follower, as far as the internationalisation process is concerned. Only since the Nineties, the international pattern of growth of the textile-clothing sector is strictly linked to the delocalisation of production and the creation of foreign affiliates. Within this contest, the Outward-Processing Trade (OTP) played a major role: the increase of the OTP data from 1991 to 1998 is very strong, especially if the consider the geographical area of the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs). Among the CEECs, the Italian firms are mainly linked to Rumania. Our paper confirms the complementary existing among the different types of internationalisation tools.

Keywords: Textile-Clothing industry; internationalisation; OTP; CEEC (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F24 L67 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2000-12
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