Italian Business in Central Asia

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_3525
dc.contributor.author	Sorbello Paolo
dc.title	Italian Business in Central Asia. In and Around the Energy Sector
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	While distant and little-known to the Italian public, Central Asia plays an important role for Italy. Kazakhstan is an important supplier of oil to Italy and Italy is the principal customer for Kazakhstani oil. This article concentrates on Italy-Kazakhstan relations because they represent the lion’s share of Italy-Central Asia relations, while also providing a rationale to explain the diverging pathways that allowed Kazakhstan to interact more proficiently with foreign companies, rather than its close neighbours. By focusing on the energy sector, this article also highlights how trans-national companies (TNCs), such as Italy’s Eni, transfer practices from their global experience in oil and gas to their destination countries in Central Asia. In particular, this article analyses the cost-cutting practices of outsourcing services and outstaffing workforce, for which Italian companies and joint ventures have become instrumental.
dc.relation.ispartof	Eurasian Studies
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2019-12-16
dc.dateSubmitted	2019-08-08
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-377-9/italian-business-in-central-asia/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-376-2/015
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8879
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9433
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-377-9
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-376-2
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Business
dc.subject	Business
dc.subject	Central Asia
dc.subject	Central Asia
dc.subject	Italy
dc.subject	Italy
dc.subject	Kazakhstan
dc.subject	Kazakhstan
dc.subject	Oil and gas
dc.subject	Oil and gas
dc.subject	Turkmenistan
dc.subject	Turkmenistan

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Italian Business in Central Asia

In and Around the Energy Sector

Paolo Sorbello Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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While distant and little-known to the Italian public, Central Asia plays an important role for Italy. Kazakhstan is an important supplier of oil to Italy and Italy is the principal customer for Kazakhstani oil. This article concentrates on Italy-Kazakhstan relations because they represent the lion’s share of Italy-Central Asia relations, while also providing a rationale to explain the diverging pathways that allowed Kazakhstan to interact more proficiently with foreign companies, rather than its close neighbours. By focusing on the energy sector, this article also highlights how trans-national companies (TNCs), such as Italy’s Eni, transfer practices from their global experience in oil and gas to their destination countries in Central Asia. In particular, this article analyses the cost-cutting practices of outsourcing services and outstaffing workforce, for which Italian companies and joint ventures have become instrumental.

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Dec. 16, 2019

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Aug. 8, 2019

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978-88-6969-377-9

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978-88-6969-376-2

Keywords: Turkmenistan • Oil and gas • Kazakhstan • Italy • Central Asia • Business

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