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Working Paper Cnr-Ceris, N° 06/2014

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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Piercarlo Frigero
University of Turin, Faulty of Economics, Cso Unione Sovietica 218, Turin (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.

JEL Codes: L22, L25, L62, O14

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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.

[1] First and Corresponding author.

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