81580 - Business Strategy (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, students know the issues concerning the organization of business economic activity. In particular, they are able to: - analyze the role of prices in solving problems of coordination between economic decisions; - coordinate between plans and actions, the functions of contracts and incentive mechanisms within economic organizations; - comparatively analyze the main organizational models: hierarchies, polyarchies and networks.

Course contents

Strategy and results
Sector structure and company positioning
Sector dynamics and strategic change
Strategy evaluation
Strategy evaluation in the multi-business enterprise

Readings/Bibliography

- Teacher's slides on virtuale.unibo.it

- Lecture notes

- R. M. Grant, L’analisi strategica per le decisioni aziendali, il Mulino, 2020

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

Written exam

 

 

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Teaching tools

Textbooks

Slides

Papers

Office hours

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