Llicenciatura en Administració i Direcció d'Empreses (3323)
Llicenciatura en Economia (3322)
Història Econòmica de l'Empresa(11874)
I. BACKGROUND
Tema 1
Introduction: The course and its requirements.
Tema 2
Definitions: The firm, its boundaries and development.
Tema 3
Pre-industrial economic organizations.
II. THE FIRST INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Tema 4
The emergence and spread of the factory organization.
Tema 5
Defenders and critics of capitalism: Smith, Marx et al.
III. THE SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Tema 6
Mass production and management in the United States.
Tema 7
The role of banks, government and organized labour.
Tema 8
Developments in other countries I: Europe.
Tema 9
Developments in other countries II: Russia and Japan.
Tema 10
Models of management: Taylor, Fayol and Weber.
IV. CHANGES AND EXPANSION OF THE AMERICAN MODEL
Tema 11
Growth, diversification and internationalisation of US companies.
Tema 12
A changed framework: Depression, New Deal and WWII.
Tema 13
American enterprise as a worldwide reference.
Tema 14
Defining the role of managers: Drucker et al.
V. CHALLENGES TO THE US DOMINANCE
Tema 15
State driven: Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and France.
Tema 16
Enterprise driven: Germany and Italy.
Tema 17
Development driven: Japan and the Asian tigers.
VI. RECENT CHANGES
Tema 18
From industry to services.
Tema 19
IT, networked organizations and dot.coms.
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CHANDLER Jr., Alfred i d'altres (ed.).
Big Business and the Wealth of Nations. Nova York:
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VALDALISO, Jesús Mª; LÓPEZ, Santiago.
Historia económica de la empresa. Barcelona: Crítica,
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