Explaining the efficiency of Italian car suppliers during the crisis*
Alessandro Manello[1]
CNR-Ceris, via Real Collegio 30, 10024
Moncalieri (To), Italy
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Giuseppe Calabrese
CNR-Ceris, via Real Collegio 30, 10024
Moncalieri (To), Italy
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Abstract: This
empirical study, focused on the Italian automotive sector during the recent
international crisis, detects technical performance of firms using Data
Envelopment Analysis. We pay specific attention to the role along the supply
chain, to size and to vertical structure of firms. In particular, this study
highlights how the recent crisis stimulates a deep process of re-organization,
re-location and re-thinking of firms’ position along the value chain but, in
particular, the crisis stresses the pre-existing heterogeneity among firms. The
technical frontier is driven by firms able to contribute to the technology,
which represents essential link of the automotive value chain. Those firms are
large, vertically disintegrated and operate in metals, plastic or machinery.
Keywords: Supply chain, Vertical integration, Data Envelopment
Analysis, automotive sector.
Acknowledgments: We
thank Secondo Rolfo, Giovanni Zanetti, Davide Vannoni for valuable suggestion,
as well the Ansaldo Foundation for the financial support. This paper contains
some preliminary results of a research project about the changing roles of
firms in new models of supply chain, developed near the CNR-Ceris (Institute for
Economic Research on Firms and Growth of the Italian National Research Council)
and the Department of Economics, Statistics and Social Sciences of the
University of Turin.
* This paper is an
advanced version of that presented at the Gerpisa 2013 conference in Paris,
while it represents a preliminary version of that presented the SIEPI 2014
workshop in Naples.