2019/2020

2020/2021

DM270

IUS/04 (COMMERCIAL LAW)

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND LAW

PERCORSO COMUNE

2°

1st semester (28/09/2020 - 22/12/2020)

6

44 lesson hours

Italian

WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST

PELLICELLI MICHELA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Business Administration and Management: the general business notions, the main economic. logics and performance indicators

This course aims to give students the main concepts relating to business groups in order to allow the understanding of the dynamics that drive companies to look for forms of aggregation and organization for corporate groups and which are the strategies to be implemented in the case for example a corporate restructuring.
Participation in projects for the analysis of corporate groups contributes to deepening and knowing how to apply the notions learned by studying the teaching.

- The business groups: the concept and types.
- The genesis of the groups and the economic and juridical reasons that lead to the formation of business groups.
- Size, diversification and internationalization.
- Economic aspects: economic efficiency evaluation, quality system and outsourcing / offshoring and main business objectives: shareholder value creation, corporate social responsibility, sustainability.
- The growth of business groups by external means, and corporate restructuring.
- Acquisitions as restructuring of the corporate portfolio tool: phases of the acquisition process and reasons behind the purchase.
- From groups to mergers as a tool of corporate restructuring and the main differences compared to the uniforms companies.

Frontal and telematic lessons
Case studies. Discussion of projects.

Gaughan P.A., Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Restructurings, Wiley & Sons, New York, 2010.

Pellicelli M., L’outsourcing e l’offshoring nell’economia dell’impresa, Giappichelli, Torino, 2009.

Pellicelli M., Creazione di valore e Value Based Management, Giappichelli, Torino, 2007.

Notes and materials via teaching web site: KIRO

Oral evaluation (0-30 with honors), partly dedicated to the critical discussion relating to the project analysis of business groups (0-10 / 30).
The final evaluation is based on the degree of learning of the notions and the ability to elaborate and deepen the topics learned during the teaching.

The lessons will be also held with telematic tools in order to guarantee availability to all students.