- Docente: Cristina Boari
- Credits: 6
- SSD: SECS-P/08
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Economics and Accounting (cod. 0900)
Learning outcomes
The course intends to provide frameworks, methods and tools that can be useful to understand:
- what is corporate strategy and which are its tools and frameworks
- how firms are created and managed in their start up period
- how diversified and international firms are managed
- Why and how acquisitions are implemented
- Why and how alliances are created and managed
- Why and how restructuring and divestment are implemented
- How value is created at the corporate level
Course contents
Business strategy and corporate strategy
Deliberate and emergent strategies
New firms' creation and entrepreneurship
Start up creation and growth in geographical clusters
Firms' growth models
International firms and "born global"
Management of acquisition
Management of alliance
Rationalizations and divestments
Organizational structure and control systems
Readings/Bibliography
The reading list will be provided at the beginning of the course.
Teaching methods
Lessons, analysis and discussion of case-studies, presentations by guest speakers
Assessment methods
Different methods will be used for attending and not attending students. Methods: final written exam , written team case analysis and team case analysis presentation, class participation, peer review
Office hours
See the website of Cristina Boari
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.