12512 - Economics and Management

Academic Year 2018/2019

  • Docente: Umberto Lago
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: SECS-P/08
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Business Economics (cod. 8848)

Learning outcomes

The course introduces students to the basics of management science. Students will know how about the firm's strategy, operations management, marketing, and finance.

Course contents

1. Firm activity and competitive advantage

2. Resources and competencies

3. Firm strategy

4. Internal organization and human resource management

5. Marketing

6. Operation management

7. Corporate finance

The detailed course syllabus will be explained at the beginning of the course.

 

Readings/Bibliography

Lipparini A. (ed), Economia e gestione delle imprese, Il Mulino, 2007. Chapters 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10.

Torrisi, S. and Graziano, H. Exercises with suggested solutions, Facoltà di Economia- sede Rimini, 2010. This material is available from AMS Campus (http://campus.unibo.it).

Additional information about specific parts of the chapters that are not included in the program will be given at the beginning of the course and will be available from AMS Campus (http://campus.unibo.it) along with other material prepared by the instructor.

Teaching methods

Lectures, exercises and case-studies discussed in class, company presentations

Assessment methods

Final written exam, part with multiple choice questions and part with open ended questions.

Teaching tools

Video projector, PC with internet connection

Office hours

See the website of Umberto Lago