The Roots of Business Familism in Southern Italy. A Quantitative Analysis of the 19th Century
本文通过社会网络分析，以姓氏作为家族关系的代理变量，研究了19世纪意大利南部商业家族主义的历史根源，发现企业嵌入家族关系是该地区商业系统的结构性特征，且不同经济部门存在显著差异。
Abstract This paper investigates the historical roots of business familism in Southern Italy. Using a social network analysis and employing surnames as proxies for family ties, we introduce and explore various measures of business familism. Our analysis reveals that the persistent embeddedness of firms in family ties was a structural feature of the business system in the South throughout the 19th century. The analysis also documents significant variations in the trends of business familism across different economic sectors.