6193 - ORGANIZATIONAL NETWORKS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
CLEAM - CLES - CLEF - BIEM - CLEACC
Department of Management
Course taught in English
Go to class group/s: 31
CLEAM (6 credits - II sem. - AI) - CLES (6 credits - II sem. - AI) - CLEF (6 credits - II sem. - AI) - BIEM (6 credits - II sem. - AI) - CLEACC (6 credits - II sem. - AI)
Course Director:
ANNA GRANDORI
ANNA GRANDORI
Course Objectives
The course offers an advanced treatment of the theme of the development of enterpreneurship within and around firms, through organizational networks, in the context of innovative activities; integrating organizational and strategic aspects. The course employes active teaching methods; in particular it recommends the prior reading of one leading article (including case studies) per session.
Course Content Summary
- Nature and forms of entrepreneurship.
- The foundation and development of new firms. Opportunity recognition, the entrepreneurial team, forms of financing and types of investors, governance and organizational structure of the new firm
- The internal and external growth of the enterpreneurial firm. Interfirm networks and alliances: social (e.g. industrial districts), contractual (e.g franchising, consortia) and proprietary (e.g. joint ventures)
- Corporate entrepreneurship and strategic innovation. The large firm as a bundle of strategic initiatives. Entrepreneurial behavior and strategic discipline
- Network organization within large firms (Network forms, Internal corporate ventures, spin-offs, M&A)
Detailed Description of Assessment Methods
There is no difference in the evaluation procedure for attending or not attending students.
Students are evaluated on a written exam based on theory and case analysis in any exam session of their choice. The exam will be structured into parts according to course structure. It will include some conceptual questions and at least one question of applied analysis of a case.
Optional: The student can analyze a real case of his/her choice applying any relevant tools learned in the course. These works will be evaluated on a simple binary scale: good or not so good. The grade obtained in the written exam is increased by 1 point.
Textbooks
Selected articles and parts of books available at the beginning of the course.
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