- Docente: Edoardo Mollona
- Credits: 8
- SSD: SECS-P/07
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Information Science for Management (cod. 8014)
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from Sep 22, 2025 to Dec 09, 2025
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to describe the typical governance structures and internal control mechanisms of corporates. The course will as well interpret the analysis of the functioning of governance structures and of internal control mechanisms in the light of the main theories that address the relationship between the various actors who interact within corporates such as stakeholders theory, agency theory and stewardship theory.
Course contents
1. Corporate governance: An Introduction
2. Relationshps between corporate governance and management
3. Theoretical perspectives:
3.1 Agency Theory
3.2 Stakeholder Theory
3.3 Stewardship Theory
3.4 Other Theoretical perspectives
4. Variety of capitalism
5. Ownership structures
6. Roles and structures of boards of directors
7. Top management remuneration
Readings/Bibliography
Mandatory reading:
Zattoni, A. (2015). Corporate Governance. EGEA.
Further reading:
Tricker, B. (2019). Corporate Governance. Principles, policies, and practices. Oxford University Press.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Written examination articulated in:
1. section with multiple-choice questions,
2. section with essay.
Office hours
See the website of Edoardo Mollona