Abstract
Italian firms have successfully undertaken massive organizational changes during the 1980s. The conspicuous process of industrial adjustment (Dertouzos, Lester, and Solow, 1989; Regini and Sabel, 1989) was characterized by the proliferation of hybrid organizational forms (Child, 1987). Italian firms often departed from the standard hierarchical and monolithic model, adopting a variety of more flexible and decentralized organizational structures sometimes based on contractual and informal relationships.
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Camuffo, A., Costa, G. (1993). Human Resource Management and Strategic Change: The Italian Case. In: Zan, L., Zambon, S., Pettigrew, A.M. (eds) Perspectives on Strategic Change. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-27290-0_5
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