2005 - Internazionalizzazione delle imprese lombarde e sviluppo del capitale umano

Rapporto finale

La globalizzazione ha accentuato il problema della competitività delle PMI, condizionate dalla struttura proprietaria, incentrata sulla famiglia e dalla scarsità di risorse umane qualificate che accompagnino i processi di internazionalizzazione. La ricerca ha lo scopo di esplorare il ruolo del capitale umano nella globalizzazione e di identificare le competenze necessarie per guidare e sostenere l’espansione internazionale delle imprese. Il lavoro di ricerca indaga le competenze richieste ai manager italiani che lavorano presso la casamadre e all’estero.

La ricerca avanza alcune proposte a sostegno dello sviluppo delle risorse umane rivolte alle imprese lombarde impegnate in processi di internazionalizzazione. 

The increase of globalization highlights the competitiveness problem of Italian small and medium enterprises (SME) and creates the condition to foster international oriented policies, based on the issue of export growth. The limit of international growth of SMEs is usually identified in their owned family structure and in the paucity of human resources devoted to internationalisation expansion.

The research is aimed to explore the role of Human Capital in globalization and to identify the capabilities necessary to manage and support the foreign expansion of the firm. This is a quite unexplored subject, at least for Italian case. Competences required to manager that works in firms headquarter and foreign unit are addressed. Attention is devoted to the problem of intercultural relation with host countries and with future expansion paths of the firms.

The research allows the identification of regional policies aimed in supporting the firms of Lombardy in developing human resources in coherence with their globalization process, and the detection of actions that could be implemented by educational and training institutions (University, Business School , etc.), by public agencies or institutional operator in Lombardy , and directly by the firm, whit specific internal projects of educational and training.