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FONDAZIONE ASSI
A Presentation
The Fondazione ASSI for the history of enterprise was created in October 1986
growing out of the earlier ASSI Association (formed in 1983).
Research on topics of business economics and business history is the main activity
of the Foundation. Its methodology is based on the belief that business history and
business studies require an approach which goes beyond the purely narrative and
chronological aspects and emphasizes the necessity of theories and generalizations.
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Thus a continuous dialogue between economists, historians and sociologists has
become a distinctive mark of ASSI research activity, with a focus on a few main
themes: technological dynamics and the innovative process of the firm; financial
institutions and allocative mechanisms; the evolution of the forms of enterprise as
well as of organizational and decisional procedures; historical taxonomies of growth
of industries and firms.
ASSI is editing a series of studies and monographs in the fields of the history,
economics and sociology of enterprise which so far already counts some fifteen titles.
Further, the Foundation is editing 2 periodicals: the Annali, an yearbook of business
history, that has reached the 8th volume, and Archivt e imprest, at its third year of
life.
Moreover, ASSI has been promoting on yearly basis seminars in business history
and workshops on organization history and theory. Most important is the international
week on the history of enterprise held every two years. The 1993 Conference focused
on Hierarchies, Markets, Power in the Economy: Theories and Lessons from History and was
held in Milan December 13-15, 1993.
Finally ASSI has recently created jointly with the Chamber of Commerce of Milan
the Business History Center aimed at diffusing business history in Italy, fostering
the conservation and the protection of business archives in Lombardy, financing
young researchers and cooperating with other institutions (public, private, acade-
mic) concerned with studies and research in business history.
The ASSI Series in Business History
P. A. Toninelli, La Edison. Contabilita e bilanci di una grande impresa elettrica, 1884—
1916. Bologna: II Mulino, 1990.
F. Amatori, B. Bezza (eds), Montecatini: 1888-1966. Capitoli di storia di una grande
impresa. Bologna: II Mulino, 1991.
G. Sapelli, S. Zan, Costruire I'impresa. La Cooptrativa Muratori e Cemtntisti di Ravenna
dal 1945 al 1972. Bologna: II Mulino, 1991.
B. Bezza (ed.), Energia e sviluppo, L'industria elettrica italiana e la Societa Edison. 2nd
edn, Bologna: II Mulino, 1991.
P. P. Saviotti, L. Simonin, V. Zamagni, Dall'ammoniaca at nuovi materiali, Storia
ddl'lstituto di ricercbe chimiche G. Donegani di Novara. Bologna: II Mulino, 1991.Fondazione ASSI
G. Roverato, Nuovo Pignone. Le sfide della maturita. Bologna: II Mulino, 1991.
R. Giannetti, P. A. Toninelli (eds), Innovazione, imprtsa e sviluppo economico. Bologna:
II Mulino, 1991.
M. Lungonelli, La Magona dItalia, Imprtsa, lavoro, tecnologia in un secolo di siderurgia
toscana. Bologna: II Mulino, 1991.
M. Magatti, Mercato e{one social:. Due distrttti tessili: Lancashire e Ticino Olona, 1950-
1980. Bologna: II Mulino, 1991.
M. Balconi, La siderurgia italiana, 1945—1990. Tra controllo pubblico e mcenttvi del
mercato. Bologna: II Mulino, 1991.
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W. Lazonick, L'tmpresa, I'organizzazione e tl mito del mercato, Bologna: II Mulino,
1992.
E. Cefis et al., La Laterizi e I'arte del mattone a Imola (1913-1989). Bologna: II
Mulino, 1992.
A. Chandler, Economic di scala e economic di scope. Storia dell'impresa industriale (1880—
1940). Bologna: II Mulino, 1993.
International Publications
G. Dosi, R. Giannetti, P. A. Toninelli (eds), Technology and Enterprise in a Historical
Perspective. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
V. Zamagni (ed.), Finance and the Enterprise. Facts and Theories. London: Academic
Press, 1992.
The Journals
Annali di storia dell'impresa (Bologna: II Mulino)
no. 5/6: 1989/1990; no. 7: 1991; no. 8: 1992; no. 9: 1993 (forthcoming).
Archivi e Imprve, Bollettino di informaziont, studi e ricenbt (Milano: Assimpresa)
no. 1, Jan./Jun. 1990; no. 2, Jul./Dec. 1990; no. 3, Jan./Jun. 1991; no. 4, Jul./
Dec. 1991; no. 5, Jan./Jun. 1992, no. 6, Jul./Dec. 1992; no. 7, Jan./Jun. 1993
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The Journal covers
• the internal structures of firms
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* the relationship between firms' characteristics and the institutional environment
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Williamson, O. E. (1975), Markets and Hierarchies. Analysis and Antitrust Impli-
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ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Mario Amendola (Universita degli Studi 'La Sapienza', Roma)
Masahiko Aoki (University of Kyoto, Kyoto/Stanford University,
Stanford)
Robert Boyer (CEPREMAP, Paris)
Glenn Carroll (University of California, Berkeley)
Benjamin Coriat (Universite de Paris XIII, Paris)
Paul David (Stanford University, Stanford)
Massimo Egidi (Universita di Trento, Trento)
Gunnar Eliasson (Industnens Utredningsinsutut, Stockholm)
Patrick Fndenson (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Jean Luc Gaffard (University de Nice, Nice)
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Louis Galambos (The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore)
Peter Hertner (European University Institute, Firenze)
Ken-ichi Imai (Stanford Japan Center-Research, Kyoto)
Jorge Katz (Universidad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires)
Jurgen Kocka (Freie Universitat, Berlin)
William Lazonick (University of Massachusetts, Lowell)
Bent-Ake Lundvall (Aalborg University, Aalborg)
Franco Malerba (Universita degli Studi, Brescia)
Alberto Martinelli (Universita degli Studi, Milano)
Stanley Metcalfe (The University of Manchester, Manchester)
David Mowery (University of California, Berkeley)
Richard Nelson (Columbia University, New York)
Luigi Orsenigo (Bocconi University, Milano)
Luigi Pasinetti (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano)
Richard Rumelt (University of California, Los Angeles)
Michele Salvati (Universita degli Studi, Milano)
Francesco Silva (LIUC, Castellanza)
Luc Soete (University of Limburg, Maastricht)
Peter Temin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass)
Richard Tilly (Universitat Munster, Munster)
Gianni Toniolo (Universita degli Studi, Venezia)
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