BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

00040L

Academic Year of enrolment:

2023

Year of supply:

2023/2024

Type of Course:

Basic

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in ECONOMICS, FIRMS AND FINANCIAL MARKETS

Disciplinary Sector:

Business Administration

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

ZIRUOLO Andrea

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

153

Prerequisites:

In order to make participation in the course effective, the student must possess a propensity aimed at knowing the conceptual tools necessary to face the complex and dynamic reality of companies with methodical rigor and with a critical spirit, also from an interdisciplinary point of view.

Objectives

Knowledge and understanding:
Students will be able to understand the most important aspects that characterize a theory of business economics and its multidisciplinary implications.

Judgment autonomy:
Students develop the ability to interpret and critically read the central business notions also concerning the company's operational practice.
Furthermore, the student develops the ability to interpret and critically read data and information produced by business systems.

Communication skills:
Students develop specific communication skills able to combine the best science and knowledge of various business, economic, legal, and social fields.

Contents

Form I
The economic activity and the phases of its unitary process
1) The economic problem in the evaluation of its defining elements
2) The driving force of operational units in the study of economic science
3) Political economy and business economics in their interrelated relationships
4) Business economics and the disciplines responsible for the study of related administrative processes
5) The notion of a company in economic and legal studies
6) Subjects operating within the economic administration of the company

The company system and the supposed decomposability subsystems
1) The definition of the system in general and its possible classifications
2) The general theory of systems in the "emergency system"
3) The representative models of the system and the related classifications
4) The company as a "system of economic forces"
5) The "theory of complexity" and the "theory of chaos" in business systems
6) The importance of "randomness" in determining business success or failure
7) The breakdown of the company system into subsystems of various order and degree
8) The system environment and the possible subsystem divisions
9) The interrelated relationships between the company system and the environment-system in the supposed decomposability
10) The system of business equilibrium conditions and the factors acting on it

The organizational subsystem in its characterizing elements for business decisions
1) The company activity in its organizational "moment".
2) Management theories in the evolution of organization studies
3) The evolutionary process of managerial theories: crisis management and the ecological-digital transition
4) The decision-making process within the organizational subsystem
5) The judgment of convenience to the establishment of the company
6) The choices of external and internal location of the company
7) The dimensional profiles of the company
8) The choice of the legal form of the company at the time of establishment and operation
9) The business plan and the drafting of the business plan
10) The function deployment within the organization
11) The articulation of the corporate structure and its organizational structure
12) Coordination of functions and definition of leadership styles

The management (or decision-making) subsystem in the identification of its connected aspects and related representative models
1) The economic-business perspective in management analysis
2) Business profitability: analysis of its determinants
3) The breakdown of corporate management into classes of homogeneous operations: economic management
4) The characteristic economic management
5) Ancillary economic management
6) Extraordinary economic management
7) The breakdown of corporate management into classes of homogeneous operations: financial management
8) The breakdown of corporate management into classes of homogeneous operations: monetary management
9) Operating income and net working capital: the definition of the concepts
10) Operating income and net working capital: the reporting system
11) Operating income and net working capital: the gradual construction of the schemes for their determination
12) Operating income and net working capital: the nature of the values
13) The determination of analytical results and the marginalist logic

The information subsystem in its quantitative representations and qualitative descriptions
1) The classification of the information subsystem (or of the control) within the company system The systemic conception of the company and the information subsystem: first definitions
2) The structure and characteristics of advanced information subsystems
3) The corporate information subsystem: its division into subsystems and its importance for strategic planning, decision-making, and management control
4) The information system and the subsystem of the company's economic and administrative surveys
5) The evolution of the information system: the new sustainability reporting and non-financial disclosure tools
6) The general theory and specializations for types of operations

Module II
The principles of pure business economics: the theory of Business equilibrium
Company profiles and the self-regenerative function
The evolution of the principles of business economics and the correlation link with the principles of accounting

Extended Syllabus

The economic activity and the phases of its unitary process;
The company system and the supposed decomposability subsystems;
The organizational subsystem in its characterizing elements for business decisions;
The management (or decision-making) subsystem in the identification of its connected aspects and related representative models;
The information subsystem in its quantitative representations and qualitative descriptions
The general theory and specializations for types of operations;
The principles of pure business economics: the theory of business equilibrium;
The principles of pure business economics: the company profiles and the self-regenerating function;
The evolution of the principles of business economics and the correlation link with the principles of accounting;

Recommended Bibliography

"L'economia aziendale nei suoi principi e nelle sue applicazioni" a cura di G.Paolone e L. D'Amico, Giappichelli, 2022

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

The course will be organized in modules whose lessons will mainly focus on the use of the following teaching methods: lectures and case study analyses. Attendance is strongly recommended.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The assessment of the students' learning level will be carried out with the use of a written test and a subsequent oral test.

The written test is divided into 3 open questions and 2 exercises.
This test has a duration of 2 hours. It represents 70% of the overall evaluation (expressed out of thirty) divided in relation to the educational objectives to be evaluated. The oral test (30% of the overall assessment) is aimed at probing the learner's communication skills, mastery of the specific technical language of the discipline dealt with and expository clarity.

The evaluation respects the following criteria:
• Failure to pass the exam: insufficient preparation
• From 18 to 21: sufficient preparation with specific regard to the following educational Objectives: sufficient or just sufficient understanding of the contents required in the exam, sufficient or just sufficient language skills, sufficient or just sufficient ability to contextualize the issues also in the field multidisciplinary
• From 22 to 24: fully sufficient preparation with specific regard to the following educational Objectives: fully sufficient understanding of the contents required in the exam, of the property of language and of the ability to contextualize the issues also in a multidisciplinary context
• From 25 to 26: good preparation with specific regard to the following educational objectives: good understanding of the contents required in the exam, of the property of the language and the ability to contextualize the topics also in a multidisciplinary context

• From 27 to 29:
very good preparation with specific regard to the following educational objectives: understanding of the contents required in the exam, the property of the language and the ability to contextualize the issues also in a multidisciplinary context

• From 30 to 30 cum laude: excellent preparation with specific regard to the following educational objectives/learning outcomes; understanding of the contents required in the exam, of the property of language and of the ability to contextualize the issues even in a multidisciplinary context.

Attending students will have the possibility of taking two intermediate written tests, both evaluated out of thirty.

Contacts/More Information

ERASMUS students are welcome to contact the teacher for their programme. All attending and non-attending students can access all information about the course through the E-Learning platform

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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