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

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ences (Chapter 3); Utility (Chapter 4);
Choice (Chapter 5); Demand (Chapter 6);
Slutsky equation (Chapter 8); Market
demand (Chapter 15); Technology (Chapter
18); Profit maximization (Chapter 19);
Cost minimization (Chapter 20); Cost
curves (Chapter 21); Firm supply (Chapter
22); Industry supply (Chapter 23);
Monopoly (Chapter 24); Monopoly behaviour
(Chapter 25); Oligopoly (Chapter 27).
Bibliography
- H.R. VARIAN, Intermediate Microeconomics,
Norton, New York, 1999.
ORGANIZATION THEORY
AND HUMAN
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 1
Prof. Daniel Pittino
Contents
The main goal of the course is to provide
students with the fundamentals of organization
theory and with the most important
elements in the field of organizational
behaviour and organizational design
both at the micro and macro level.
Therefore, 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.
2. Classification of organizational theories.
3. The organizational actors: competences,
forms of rationality, motivation.
4. The relationship between organization
and environment: technology, markets
and institutions and their influence on
organizations, focus on contingency theories.
5. Relations among organisation actors.
The basic coordination forms, the transaction
costs theory and its developments.
6. The simple organizational form: features,
strengths and weaknesses.
7. Tasks and tools of the organizational
design.
8. The functional form: features,
strengths and weaknesses.
9. The divisional form: features, strengths
and weaknesses.
10. The adhocratic and matrix forms: features,
strengths and weaknesses. The
inter-organizational forms of coordination.
Bibliography
The textbook is
- G. COSTA, P. GUBITTA, Organizzazione
aziendale: mercati, gerarchie e convenzioni,
McGraw-Hill, Milano, 2004.
Other materials are
- J.D. THOMPSON, Organizations in Action,
McGraw-Hill, New York, 1967.
- A. GRANDORI, Organization and Economic
Behaviour, Routledge, London, 2000.
PRIVATE LAW AND CONTRACT LAW
Prof. Francesco Bilotta
Contents
This course aims to provide the student
with a basic knowledge of the fundamental
concepts of private law as the most
important instrument of economic relations,
especially in the field of contracts.
In order to reach this goal, the course
starts by analysing the primary glossary
of law (such as: right; source of law; interpretation).
The core of the course is dedicated
to the study of the Civil code, and
particularly:
1. the First Book of the Civil Code (physical
and juridical persons);
2. the Third Book (goods, property law,
other rights on things);
3. the Fourth Book (obligations and their
sources: contracts, negotiable instru-