ORGANIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL FIRMS

Firms competing in an international environment , rely on organisation design as one of the most important competitive leverages to gain efficiency, generate innovation and being sustainable in the long term.
The course will provide students with robust frameworks of analysis , based on key organization theories, by which understanding actual organizational challenges companies have to face. .

The course aims at providing the students with:
- a conceptual framework regarding the approaches that can be adopted to design an organization, based on the most relevant organization theories
- the knowledge of the main problems of organizational design at firm level
- the capability of analyzing, designing and evaluating the most important organizational solutions.

Mandatory: Economia aziendale

Organizational design: theories, criteria and methods.
Analysis and design of the organizational mesostructure.
Coordination mechanisms
The organizational forms.
The design of the external network.
Internationalization and organization design
Organizational change

Mandatory readings
Isotta, F., 2010, La progettazione organizzativa: problemi e soluzioni. CEDAM, Padova. ( Chapters will be comunicated at the beginning of the course)

Suggested readings
Costa G., Gubitta P., Organizzazione aziendale: mercati, gerarchie e convenzioni. McGraw-Hill, Milano, 2008.
Daft R.L., Organizzazione Aziendale. Apogeo, Milano, 2007.?De Vita P., Mercurio R., Testa F., Organizzazione aziendale: assetto e meccanismi di relazione. Giappichelli, Torino, 2007.
Jones G., Organizzazione. Teoria, progettazione, cambiamento. Egea, Milano, 2007.
Milgrom, P., Roberts, J., Economia, organizzazione e management. Vol. I e II, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2005.?Rebora G., Manuale di organizzazione aziendale. Carocci, Roma, 2005.

The exam is a multiple choice test , it will also include some structured questions . It will take one hour

The teacher will allow students to exercise along the course with questions preview.

In-class lessons, case studies, visual supported training and online excercises.
Attendance is strongly suggested

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