AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

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. The topics of the course will be useful for the other management courses focused on the transport, logistics and shipping industries.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims at pursuing the institutional objective of acquiring basic knowledge and understanding on the role and behavior of the enterprise in its competitive environment, 

The course also presents the objective of offering students food for thought that will enable them to connect the discipline of management with other disciplines that are part of their cultural "backgroud" (microeconomics and business economics in particular) 

LEARNING OUTCOMES :

Knowledge and Understanding: Students will acquire adequate knowledge and effective understanding of the main theoretical models supporting strategic analysis.

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding:  Students will be able to apply the acquired knowledge in order to interpret and solve problems related to strategic and operational business decisions, taking into account the constraints and opportunities arising from the external environment and internal environment. I

Autonomy of judgment: Students will be able to use, both conceptually and operationally, the acquired knowledge with autonomous evaluation skills and ability in different application contexts.

Communication skills: Students will acquire the technical language typical of the discipline to communicate clearly and unambiguously with specialist and non-specialist interlocutors.

Learning skills: Students will develop adequate learning skills that will enable them to continue to explore the main themes of the discipline independently.

PREREQUISITES

Some basic notions of Business Administration.

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures, case studies and seminars.

Lectures are held in Italian, but, for incoming students, it is possible to sustain the exam in English, following an English textbook.

Students who have valid certification of physical or learning disabilities  and who wish to discuss possible accommodations or other circumstances regarding lectures, coursework and exams, should speak  both with the instructor and with Professor Serena Scotto (scotto@economia.unige.it), the Department s disability liaison.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

- 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
 

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

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.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

LESSONS

LESSONS START

First semester

Week starting 16th September 2024

Class schedule

MANAGEMENT

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The exam is written.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

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@unige.it) in case you want to sustain the exam in English.

FURTHER INFORMATION

The course will be taught in Italian. The attendance is not compulsory.

Incoming students may sustain the exam in English.