| CODE | 60023 |
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| ACADEMIC YEAR | 2022/2023 |
| CREDITS |
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| SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR | SECS-P/08 |
| LANGUAGE | Italian |
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| SEMESTER | 1° Semester |
| PREREQUISITES |
Prerequisites
You can take the exam for this unit if you passed the following exam(s):
Prerequisites (for future units)
This unit is a prerequisite for:
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| TEACHING MATERIALS | AULAWEB |
The course aims at introducing the student to strategic management, providing the concepts, frameworks and techniques useful to make correct firm’s strategic decisions. In particular, the focus of the course are the relationships between firms and their competitive environment, together with their resources and capabilities, in order to obtain a competitive advantage. The topics of the course will be useful for the other management courses focused on the transport, logistics and shipping industries.
Lectures, case studies and seminars.
Lectures are held in Italian, but, for incoming students, it is possible to sustain the exam in English, following the English textbook.
- The concept of strategy
- The sources and dimensions of competitive advantage
- Firms’ goals, values and performance
- The fundamentals of industry analysis
- Managing industry evolution and strategic change
- The analysis of resources and capabilities
- The fundamentals of strategy implementation
If incoming students choose to study the ordinary syllabus in Italian, they can refer to the Italian syllabus. Otherwise, the English syllabus is based on the following textbook:
Grant R.M. (2013), Contemporary Strategy Analysis, 8th Edition, Wiley & Sons. Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
Office hours: The office hours for students are fixed, until December 2022, every Friday, at 11.30 a.m., in the office of the teacher (first floor of the building). It is also possible to fix a personal appointment via Microsoft Teams, sending before the request to the teacher by email: giorgia.profumo@economia.unige.it
GIORGIA PROFUMO (President)
LARA PENCO
ROBERTA SCARSI
First semester
Week starting 19th September 2022
The exam is written.
Written exam with four open-ended questions based on the studied syllabus.
It is possible to sustain the exam in Italian or in English. Please send an email to the teacher (giorgia.profumo@economia.unige.it) in case you want to sustain the exam in English.
| Date | Time | Location | Type | Notes |
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| 12/01/2023 | 10:00 | GENOVA | Scritto | |
| 26/01/2023 | 10:00 | GENOVA | Scritto | |
| 09/02/2023 | 10:00 | GENOVA | Scritto | |
| 08/06/2023 | 10:00 | GENOVA | Scritto | |
| 22/06/2023 | 10:00 | GENOVA | Scritto | |
| 13/07/2023 | 10:00 | GENOVA | Scritto | |
| 07/09/2023 | 10:00 | GENOVA | Scritto |
The course will be taught in Italian. The attendance is not compulsory.
Incoming students may sustain the exam in English.