“Resilience�? refers to the ability of companies to adapt their strategies in response to economic circumstances that change from time to time. This definition seems appropriate to explain the behavior of the Sicilian productive districts in light of the recent economic crisis. These meta-producing districts of Sicily merit further study, particularly in terms of the concept of resilience and its accompanying economic dynamics. The Sicilian Region has recognized these productive districts, which represent an attempt to use industrial policy to promote various types of mergers among companies. This regional strategy could have been a useful tool to induce the production system to direct its decisions toward forms of integration and inter-company collaboration that would also strengthen the previously begun processes of local development. The crisis reduced any regional policy aspirations and above all decimated the numerous small enterprises that might have represented the backbone of the proto-districts. After an initial methodological and historical reconstruction, the present study focuses on the Sicilian production areas – with particular reference to the industrial area – from the first years of their establishment and regional recognition to those latter years marked by the economic crisis. Thus, we evaluate the degree of resilience of the different districts and their competitive capacities. Arguing about competitiveness and resilience means, on one hand, to understand what the factors are that combine to reduce the vulnerability of a territory and a production system and on the other hand, to identify strategies to increase financing for the same factors that are crucial to a region’s economic growth.

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西西里岛生产区的竞争力和复原力。经济危机期间西西里产区的行为

“韧性”？指公司根据不时变化的经济环境调整战略的能力。鉴于最近的经济危机，这个定义似乎适合解释西西里生产区的行为。西西里岛的这些元产区值得进一步研究，特别是在复原力的概念及其伴随的经济动态方面。西西里大区已经认识到这些生产区，它们代表了利用产业政策促进公司间各种类型合并的尝试。这一区域战略可能是一个有用的工具，可以促使生产系统将其决策导向整合和公司间合作的形式，这也将加强先前开始的地方发展过程。这场危机削弱了任何区域政策的愿望，最重要的是摧毁了可能代表原始地区骨干的众多小企业。经过初步的方法论和历史重建，本研究侧重于西西里生产区——特别是工业区——从其建立和区域认可的最初几年到以经济危机为标志的后期。因此，我们评估不同地区的弹性程度及其竞争能力。争论竞争力和复原力意味着，一方面，要了解哪些因素共同降低了领土和生产系统的脆弱性，另一方面，