8248 - COMPARATIVE BUSINESS HISTORY
GM-LS - MM-LS - OSI-LS - AFC-LS - CLAPI-LS - CLEFIN-LS - CLELI-LS - CLEACC-LS - DES-LS - CLEMIT-LS - CLG-LS
Course taught in English
Go to class group/s: 31
The course focuses on the origins and evolution of the modern industrial corporation from the last decades of the 19th century until today, in a long term perspective, stressing continuities and changes, technological evolution and socio-institutional transformations - all elements which effect corporations' strategies and structures. The modern industrial corporation is studied in a comparative framework, considering the three macro-regions at the head of the world economy: the United States, Europe and Japan. A part of the course features monographic lectures, which analyse and compare in detail the different organizational models adopted by companies active in the increasingly more globalized economy.
- The firm between the First and Second Industrial Revolution
- The Second Industrial Revolution and the birth of the modern industrial corporation
- Managerial capitalism: the USA
- The "European relative": Great Britain
- Cooperative capitalism: Germany
- The country of the "noyeaux durs": France
- Squaring the circle: Japan
- Between State and families: Italian corporations
Student evaluation consists of an oral exam covering the course contents and also a paper that can be the result of individual effort or group work (maximum 4 people).
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J. MICKLETHWAIT, A. WOOLRIDGE, The company. A short history of a revolutionary idea, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2003.
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Additional readings will be indicated during the course.