•GUIDA ECONOMIA 07-08 - Università degli studi di Udine

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- Introduction: SMEs: diffusion and role
in the Italian and European economic
environment. Industrial and geographical
specificities.
- The entrepreneur: profile, competences
and incentives.
- The organisation of a SME. The organisational
forms: strengths and weaknesses.
- The management of a SME. The owner,
the entrepreneur and the manager. The
role of operational mechanisms and of
strategic planning. Human resource
management.
- Innovative business models. The management
of innovation.
- Development and growth. Paths of
development and processes of intergenerational
transitions.
Pre-requisites
Management 1; Organisation theory and
human resource management 1.
Teaching arrangements
In order to make learning more effective,
traditional lectures are supplemented
with case studies, simulations and problem
solving activities.
Exam
Written.
Bibliography
- C. COMPAGNO, Piccole e medie imprese in
transizione, ISEDI, Torino, 2003.
- C. COMPAGNO, D. PITTINO, Ricerca scientifica
e nuove imprese, ISEDI, Torino,
2006.
- S. SHANE, A General Theory of Entrepreneurship,
Edward Elgar Publishers, Celtenham,
UK, 2003.
Recommended reading
- S. BIRLEY, Start-up, in P. BURNS, J.
DEWHURST (eds.), Small Business and
Entrepreneurship, second edition, pgs. 20-
39, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996.
- S. BRIDGE, K. O’NEILL, S. CROMIE, Understanding
Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and
Small Business, second edition, Palgrave,
Hampshire, UK.
- P. BURNS, Entrepreneurship and Small
Business, Palgrave, Basingstoke, Hampshire,
2001.
- C. COMPAGNO, V. NANUT, F. VENIER,
Nascita, sviluppo e continuità dell’impresa
artigiana, Franco Angeli, Milano, 1999.
- R. GRANDINETTI, G. BORTOLUZZI,
L’evoluzione delle imprese e dei sistemi di
subfornitura, Franco Angeli, Milano,
2004.
- A. LIPPARINI, G. LORENZONI, Imprenditori
e imprese. Idee, piani, processi, Il Mulino,
Bologna, 2000.
- D. MONTEMERLO, Il governo delle imprese
familiari, Egea, Milano, 2000.
- P. PRETI, Da un uomo solo al comando al
gruppo dirigente. L’imprenditore, l’impresa,
il cambiamento, Egea, Milano, 1996.
- G. STOCCHETTI, Il controllo di gestione
nella piccola impresa, Egea, Milano, 1996.
ORGANIZATION THEORY
AND HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT 1
Prof. Daniel Pittino
Aims
The main goal of the course is to provide
students with the fundamentals of the
organization theory and with the most
important elements in the field of organizational
behaviour and organizational
design both at the micro and macro level.
Contents
The course is structured as follows:
1. The organizational problem: division of
labour, specialization, coordination
needs. The relationship between structure
and strategies. The main variables of
the organizational problem: actors, environment,
relations;