20801975 - ECONOMICS OF PRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS

Aim of the course

Knowledge and understanding

To understand and analyze the strategic, organizational, managerial and economic and financial aspects of the business management, with a specific focus to the productive systems. To integrate quantitative approaches and qualitative variables of the organizational systems. To model systems and to face complex issues, linking economic and organizational competences to technological and engineering-based competences, practical applications and case-studies.

Applying knowledge and understanding

To interpret approaches, methodologies, techniques and tools for the business management, at strategic, managerial and operative level. To understand and read critically changing dynamics about scenario, technologies, organizations to improve business performance.

Making judgements

To develop an inter-disciplinary perspective between engineering and business management.

Communication skills

To improve analysis and presentation skills about managerial issues and tools, linking competences’ portfolios of the students, in particular between industrial and mechanical contents and business management contents. To illustrate critically the results of empirical analysis, case study and exercises.

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Programme

FIRST PART
Investment analysis and Project Financing
- The interest
- Financial equivalence
- Mortgages
- The bonds
- Inflation
- The analysis of investments in the private sector and the choice between investment alternatives
- Investments in the public sector: cost-benefit analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis
- Project Financing

SECOND PART
The business system
- General features
- The company balance sheet, taxation and its effects
- The organization and business strategy
- From artificial intelligence to human intelligence

PART THREE
The microeconomics
- Perfect competition
- The consumer theory
- The theory of the firm
- The oligopoly
- The monopoly

Core Documentation

Campisi D., Costa R. (2008), "Economia Applicata all'Ingegneria - Analisi degli investimenti e Project Financing", Carocci Editore.

Campisi D., Costa R., Mancuso P., Morea D. (2014), “Principi di Economia Applicata all’Ingegneria - Metodi, complementi ed esercizi”, Hoepli, Milano.

Morea, D., Jacobone, F. (2017), "Project Financing: elementi di base, profili professionali e modelli innovativi", Maggioli Editore.

Morea, D. (2017), "Elementi di Legislazione Tecnica", Maggioli Editore.

Bagnara, S., Cara, A., Carlucci, D., Gazziano, S., Jacobone, F., Morea, D., Pitasi, A., Pozzi, S., Ruzzeddu, M., Santarsiero, F., Schiuma, G., Tonali, G. (2018), “Dall’intelligenza artificiale all’intelligenza umana”, Maggioli Editore.

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