OVERVIEW

The course aims to help students to analyse private companies’ behaviours and their relationship with their general and competitive environment. In particular, the course is oriented to develop problem solving capabilities.

The course aims to provide the main tools to analyse private companies’ behaviours. It also aims to focus on competitive/ collaborative relationships between companies and their stakeholders (PPP – public and private partnership)  .

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to provide in-depth knowledge on the functioning of public administrations, the power dynamics within complex organizations and the main theoretical paradigms that have inspired the trajectories of public sector reform in many countries: New Public Management, Public Governance, Nudge. The central themes addressed concern administrative reforms and the different approaches to design and change from a comparative perspective. In this sense, different organizational solutions implemented in various institutional contexts will be analyzed. The course aims to develop knowledge to be applied to the design of change interventions, analyzing the complexities that characterize administrative reforms. Using tools and methodologies of the social sciences, such as case studies and comparative approaches, the processes of diffusion of changes and administrative innovations will be analyzed. The course aims to provide the knowledge useful to carry out the analysis of individual processes of innovation in public administrations and students will be asked to critically read the specificities, solutions and effects that various organizational designs can have in different institutional and organizational contexts.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Oral exam; preparation an discussion of a case study report