Family Business Management - 87128 (DISPARI)

courses

ID:

87128

Dettaglio:

SSD: Corporate Finance Duration: 48 CFU: 6

Located in:

BERGAMO

Url:

Course Details:

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION - 87-270/MANAGEMENT E GESTIONE AZIENDALE Year: 3

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION - 87-270/AMMINISTRAZIONE e CONTROLLO Year: 3

Year:

2025

Date/time interval

Primo Semestre (15/09/2025 - 19/12/2025)

Course Objectives

Family businesses are the oldest and most important form of business organization. More than 80% of companies in the world are family businesses. Italy and Germany, for example, are both important cradles of family businesses. But what are the drivers of success for family firms? What particular strengths can they leverage on? And what challenges do they face? This course answers these questions.

Course Prerequisites

Compulsory prerequisites required (Propedeuticità) are published on the web site: https://lt-ea.unibg.it/it/node/122

Teaching Methods

The lectures will be combined with analysis and discussion of case studies and exercises concerning problems relating to family businesses. In order to better structure these activities the teachers will proceed to create work groups to facilitate interaction between students and develop the ability to work in groups.
The frequency and dates of classroom activities and assignments will be established by the lecturers during the course based on the characteristics of the classroom and the timing and manner of reaction detected on the class.

Assessment Methods

The exam (both for attending and non-attending students) takes place through a final written test of 1 hour. The written test consists of 15 closed questions (1 point each if correct, 0 points if incorrect) and 3 open questions (5 points each).
The student will have to demonstrate to know the contents of the course and bring concrete examples. If the score obtained in the written test is 30, the teacher, on the basis of an overall evaluation of the paper, may decide to add an extra point (laude). The final grade corresponds to the score obtained in the written test, with the possible addition of points up to a maximum of 3, if the student has prepared and discussed the case studies and exercises assigned in the classroom during the course.
The results are published according to the normal procedures established and adopted by the university.

Alcuni miti da sfatare sulle imprese familiari: Some myths to dispel about family businesses

L'impresa familiare, un sistema complesso a tre cerchi: The family business, a complex three-circle system

Il modello delle tre dimensioni evolutive: The three-dimensional evolutionary model

Governare l'impresa familiare e la famiglia imprenditoriale: dal pathos all'ethos: Governing the family business and the entrepreneurial family: from pathos to ethos

L'intreccio tra valori e cultura nelle imprese familiari: The interweaving of values and culture in family businesses

Conflitti, comunicazione ed emozioni: Conflicts, communication, and emotions

Successione: seminare oggi per raccogliere un'eredità: Succession: sowing today to reap an inheritance