Aujourd’hui l’Italie est le plus grand pays producteur de pâtes dans le monde. En 2013, sa production a été estimée majeure de 3,3 millions de tonnes, et représente environ le 25-30 % de la production de pâtes du monde et le 73 % de la production dans l’UE. L’importance actuelle de l’industrie des pâtes a des racines profondes dans l’histoire et dans le modèle italien de développement. Surtout après l’Unification (1861), plusieurs petits fabricants de pâtes, qui opéraient dans le marché italien, introduisent des systèmes mécanisés de fabrication et accroissent l’exportation sur les marchés étrangers (comme les Amériques). Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le marché international en expansion pousse les entreprises alimentaires à développer leur production. Néanmoins, la globalisation pendant la fin du 20 e siècle et le début du 21 e siècle a représentée pour les entreprises italiennes un défi difficile à relever, à cause des limites du capitalisme italien, de l’absence d’une politique industrielle nationale et de l’émergence de grandes entreprises étrangères (Danone, Kraft, Nestlé), qui ont pris le contrôle des marchés internationaux.
The paper aims to reassess the contribution of the nobility in the nineteenth-century economic transformation of Lombardy in northern Italy, focusing on its role in agricultural development. Relying on ongoing archival research into thousands of documents such as correspondence, notarial deeds, probate records, accounting books, the article attempts to demonstrate that noblemen acted in an entrepreneurial manner, supported the progress of techniques and innovation, and played a leading role in the modernisation of the sector. The paper reconsiders the contribution of noble families both to the enhancement and management of their lands and to the elaboration and application of agricultural innovation.
This editorial introduces the 10 articles included in the special issue on 'Noblemen-entrepreneurs in the Nineteenth Century. Investments, Innovation, Management and Networks' . The collected works focus on the business activities of noblemen in Europe and Asia, thus offering up opportunities for comparison in an age of economic expansion and globalisation. What was the contribution of the nobility to the economy? Can we consider noblemen to have been endowed with an entrepreneurial spirit? What differences or similarities can we draw between the European and Asian elites? In this introduction, we give a synthetic overview of the relevant issues in the broad topic of the collection and their importance to business history, and briefly present the accepted articles. As two of the articles deal with the Japanese case, while the others focus on Europe, we have dedicated specific sections to the European and Japanese nobilities.
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