Course teached as: - ECONOMIA E GESTIONE DELLE IMPRESE 3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Teaching Language - Last names Q-Z
Italian
Course Content - Last names Q-Z
The course provides an introduction to the study of management, focusing in particular on entrepreneurial actions and decisions. The main topics to be covered are:
- Prerequisites and conditions of existence of enterprises;
- Constituent elements of firms;
- Physiology of the firm (Main going processes of the firm);
- Main entrepreneurial decisions.
R. Moliterni, Economia e gestione delle imprese, Bachelor Degree in EA and EC, ay 2021-2022 (lecture notes for the students).
C. Becagli, Economia e gestione delle imprese, Bachelor Degree in EA and EC, ay 2021-2022 (slides for the students)
The lecture notes will be available by the beginning of the course in printed form at Centro Stampa Il Prato (via Carlo del Prete, n. 38, 50127 Florence).
The slides will be available on line on the moodle platform before each lecture.
Other handouts and supplementary educational material will be published during the period of the lessons on the moodle page of the course.
Learning Objectives - Last names Q-Z
KNOWLEDGES:
The course aims to provide knowledge relating to business management problems, in particular concerning with: the business system and its constituent elements, its conditions of existence and physiology, the principal entrepreneurial decisions.
COMPETENCES:
The course aims to provide the following competencies: analyze and interpret the entrepreneurial behaviors, set up and use tools to support entrepreneurial decisions.
ABILITIES ACQUIRED AT THE END OF THE COURSE:
The course aims to privide the following capacities: Understanding of business phenomena and logics with particular reference to firm change processes.
Prerequisites - Last names Q-Z
None
Teaching Methods - Last names Q-Z
Lectures - 72 hours. Frontal teaching lessons in presence, at a distance or in dual mode depending on the evolution of the pandemic situation.
During the course some additional hours
of seminars could be provided.
Further information - Last names Q-Z
The registration on the moodle platform will be automatic, by the beginning of the course, for the 1st year's students of bachelor’s degree course in EA and EC (letters Q-Z) .
Students coming from others bachelor’s degree courses or from different years of bachelor’s degree courses in EA and EC are invited to write an email to the professor using the institutional email (name.surname@stud.unifi.it)
Type of Assessment - Last names Q-Z
A written compulsory exam consisting of close multiple choice and open questions. An optional oral exam (only for students who passed the written exam).
These exams aim to verify: 1) the acquired knowledge related to concepts, models and instruments which have been object of the course; 2) the following skills developed by the student: ability to apply the acquired knowledge; ability to draw conclusions; ability to communicate and use an appropriate language form, ability to understand and learn; 3) the ability of the student to discuss the issues being addressed by using appropriate references to business cases.
Further details are available on moodle platform.
Course program - Last names Q-Z
The course develops the following subjects:
1. Elementary definition of firm. Technical-economic functions. Firm’s role in the social environment. Essential conditions for firm start-up. Evolutive dynamic of the firm: developement, consolidation and recovery processes.
2. Constituent elements of firms. Ownership structure. Entrepreneurial structure. Operative structure.
3. Physiology of firms. Value creation processes. Conditions of existence of enterprises. Economic equilibrium. Financial equilibrium. Tools for the analysis of economic and financial feasibility.
4. Major entrepreneurial decisions. Business definition. Competitive advantage. Competitive strategies. Market positioning. Diversification. Stakeholder management.