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This paper questions the existence of a one best way towards digitalisation by contrasting the success stories of two Italian middle-size manufacturing companies. Both companies boast a history of excellence in technological innovation and in economic performance and recently launched important projects of digital transformation. However, one company seems to perceive digitalisation as a further step in the "traditional" sequence of efficiency-enhancing innovations aimed at substituting for human effort. In contrast, the other company frames digital technologies as means of stronger process integration, whose success is enabled by formal organisational tools in support of change management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this article the authors examine the impact of local development policies and their implementation in Calabria. Analyzing the literature on this subject that claims a sort of dualism between government and governance, the researchers try to explore the possible connections between both approaches. Using case studies the researchers support the thesis that local development policies have to necessarily take into account the specific nature and vocations of territories and they must succeed in activating several partners on specific projects according to a logic of multilevel governance.