The aim of the course is to provide students with a long-run view of the industrial enterprise between th 19th and 20th centuries from the beginning of the factory system to the modern international competitive markets.
The evolution of the strategies and the structures will be analyzed in a comparative perspective that will include Europe, the Usa and Eastern Asia.
The industrial enterprise will be the key to study the evolution of the social and institutional structures and of the technological change in the contemporary economies.
Particular attention will be paid to the evolution of Italian enterprises and to their capacity of integration into the international economy