Andrea Bardi Editor

The Editors: Francesco Garibaldo is director of the Institute for Labour Foundation in Bologna. He worked for several years for trade unions at high levels of responsibility. From 1992 to 1998 the editor was director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research in Rome. He has published widely in the fields of organization, governance and regional development policies, production decentralisation and SME networking. Specific studies were carried out in the automobile, machine tools, and information technology industry. The editor has experience in advanced action research methodologies, groupware and search conferences. He is director of the international network Regional and Local Development of Work and Labour.
Andrea Bardi studied Political Science at the University of Bologna. He was a consultant on organisational evolution and Head of the Marketing Department at the National Confederation for the Craft Sector and Small and Medium Enterprises in Ravenna. Currently he is the Project Manager for private sector research at the Institute for Labour Foundation in Bologna, a position he has held since 1999. His fields of activity regard local development and industrial policies, especially issues related to SMEs.