Relationship between two or more variables: independence, association; concordance. Linear regression; Multiple regression. Case studies.
Data reduction: composite indicators, principal component analysis
Cluster analysis

Introductory Statistics with R, P. Dalgaard, Springer.

An Introduction to Applied Multivariate Analysis with R, B. Everitt, T. Hothorn, Springer.

The course is divided into three parts: an institutional module, an in-depth module; seminars and meetings with the protagonists.

The institutional module aims to provide the basic concepts and the theoretical framework of the sociological work and organizational disciplines and to analyze the interconnections with other disciplines which have as their object the study of work, production organizations, human resource management and industrial relations.
There will be an in-depth analysis of the change of work in the world, in relation to the development of innovative organizational and managerial cultures, with particular attention to the aspects related to the constant demand for an increase in flexibility and productivity and the strategic importance assumed of soft and transversal skills in the new production processes.

The in-depth module, instead, aims to analyze the concepts and evolution of the negotiation and industrial relations in Italy and on an international level:
1. The transformations of work from a sociological point of view and the conceptual framework relative to the evolution of organizational models and cultures: from Taylor-Fordism to Total Quality Management and networking organizations;
2. The evolution of human resource management policies and tools in search of a new paradigm of reference: the person at the center of the processes;
3. Leadership and management of social-organizational processes in innovative enterprises and virtuous Public Administrations: The Strategic Role of Communication and Lifelong Learning;
4. The development of industrial relations in Italy: the sociological dimension of the economic, legal and institutional framework; the actors of industrial relations; the evolution of collective bargaining; industrial relations and participatory model; labour relations in Public Administrations.

In the final part of the course, seminars will be organized with the protagonists (corporate executives and managers of organization and development of human resources, representatives of trade unions) on issues of organization, training and development of skills, negotiation and regulation of employment relationships in innovative companies and virtuous public administrations.

NEGRELLI S., Le trasformazioni del lavoro: modelli e tendenze nel capitalismo globale, Laterza, Bari, 2013.
COCOZZA A., Comunicazione d’impresa e gestione delle risorse umane, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2012.
COCOZZA A., Organizzazioni. Culture, modelli, governance, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2014.

Teaching


Given the complexity of contemporary organizational contexts, where we can observe structures characterized by high complexity in terms of relation, emotion and communication, the workshop "Tools for empowerment in organizations" aims to illustrate to students methods and instrumentations more functional to govern this complexity, in an empowerment logic of subjects and organizations.
In line with the course of Sociology of the organization submitting the theoretical framework of organizational sociology and new business models that tend to recognize more and more the person as a strategic development, particular attention will focus on tools for personal growth such as counseling and coaching today widely used in management education and also considered important tools for enhancing and coordinating groups.
The laboratory has a theoretical-practical set with which to give students more than the necessary theoretical framework also an experiential dimension through which develop a personal growth process that leads them to develop emotional self-evaluation and reflective skills. Essential Skills to live and work in a complex society.

Who cannot attend lessons can be arranged with the teacher exercises to be performed using the e-learning environment that will support all interactions with the teacher and the class group.

Educational goals

The workshop aims to achieve, in particular, the following learning objectives.
1. Provide useful theoretical and methodological assumptions to understand various tools of empowerment of the subject and the specificity that characterizes them for organizational purposes, with a focus on counseling and coaching.
2. Develop emotional skills, self-evaluation and reflective skills, through the experiential dimension, that will allow them to experience some of the tools of personal growth that will be presented.
3. Promote critical reflection on the organizational use of such instruments.

Greenfield, Tecnologie radicali. Il progetto della vita quotidiana, Einaudi, 2017
KAPLAN J., Le persone non servono . Lavoro e ricchezza nell’epoca dell’intelligenza artificiale

The course mainly consists in classroom lectures, case discussions, simulations, and practical exercises; in the second part of the course, selected presentations about real-life experiences will be offered by outside speakers.
The course aims at providing students with a good understanding of the theory and practice of entrepreneurship.
During the course, students develop a business plan.

Timmons J., Zacharakis A., Spinelli S., Business plans that work, McGraw-Hill, 2011

This graduate level course provides an introduction to the basic concepts of probability, common distributions, statistical methods, and data analysis. It is intended for graduate students who have one undergraduate statistics course. Upon completion of this course students will

Appreciate and understand the role of statistics in their own field of study.
Develop an ability to apply appropriate statistical methods to summarize and analyze data for some of the more routine experimental settings.

Make sense of data and be able to report the results in appropriate table or statistical terms for inclusion in your thesis or paper.
Perform appropriate statistical techniques using Minitab and Hugin and interpret the results/outputs.

Agresti A, Finlay B. (2012) Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences, Pearson.
Zani S., Cerioli A. (2007) Analisi dei dati e data mining per le decisioni aziendali, Giuffrè Editore.
Anderson (2017) Multivariate statistics.
Other educational material like the slides will be available on the course pages website.
Other references
Levine, D. M., Krehbiel T.C. e Berenson M. L. (2006) Statistica, Apogeo.
Jensen, F. B., Graven-Nielsen, T. (2007) Bayesian Networks and Decision Graphs, 2nd ed., Springer Verlag.

ntroduction.
Elements of Matlab.
Arithmetic operators: Logical and relational operators
Variables: assignment of variables, local and global variables.
Vectors: how to create a vector, row and column vectors, operations with vectors and access to the elements of a vector.
Matrices: how to create a matrix, square and rectangular matrices, identity and diagonal matrices, operations with matrices and access to the elements of a matrix.
Polynomials and solutions of linear systems.
Flow controls and conditional statements: comparison structure if, switch comparison structure. For and while loops.
Programming elements: scripts and functions, how to write and execute a function, how to write scripts.
Introduction to the use of 1-D charts.
Import data from files and file management. Import data from Excel sheets and .csv files
Principles of discrete sequence analysis. Sequence operations, convolutions and discrete linear correlations, correlograms.
Principles of descriptive statistics: characteristic parameters, parameter estimates, historical series and discrete series, histograms.
Statistical applications: time series, averaging, volatility and higher order moments. Graph of historical time series and statistical analysis through moments, histograms and normal fitting.

- MATLAB® / R Reference, by David Hiebeler (June, 2014).
- Econometrics and Economics in Matlab.
- "An Introduction to Matlab for Econometrics", by J. C. Frain, TEP Working Paper No. 0110, February 2010.

The course will present alternative theories of primary income distribution and employment and draw their implications for
- the analysis of growth,
- the causes and effects of technical change
- the impact of labour market reforms and macroeconomic policies
- the interpretation of the changes in income distribution and their impact on employment and growth
During the course, data and results of empirical literature will lso be presented.

Various papers and essays collected around four main subjects areas and available at the library. Upon request English alternatives to the Italian readings can be suggestd to foreign students. Below the detail:

INTRODUCTORY:
“Teorie del valore e della distribuzione – un confronto tra classici e neoclassici” di Fabio Petri, da pag. 87 a 116; e da pag. 249 a 305
“Appunti sulla teoria della distribuzione e del valore” di Garegnani e Palumbo, parte introduttiva, da pag. 1 a 3
“Unemployment, institutions and the living standard in the classical theory of wages” di Antonella Stirati, da pag. 42 a 66
“Emplyoment theory in the history of economic thought: an overview” di Antonella Stirati

PART I PRODUCTIVITY EMPLOYMENT AND GROWTH:
“Teorie dello sviluppo economico” di Terenzio Cozzi, da pag. 189 a 249
“Technical change, effective demand and emplyment” di Cesaratto, Serrano e Stirati da pag. 33 a 52
Lezioni sviluppo 2010-11 (fotocopie con tabelle di dati e grafici)
“Equilibrio, distribuzione e crescita” di Kaldor, da pag. 219 a 246
“L’industria – rivista di economia politica” da pag. 45 a 53
“Potential GNP: its measurement and significance” di Okun
“Puzzles, paradoxes, and regularities: cyclical and structural productivity in the United States (1950-2005)” di Jeon e Vernengo, da pag. 237 a 243
“L’approccio Kaldor-Verdoorn: una verifica empirica per il Centro-Nord e il Mezzogiorno d’Italia (anni 1951-2006)”, di Ferdinando Ofria, da pag. 179 a 203
“intervento alla discussione del seminario ASTRIL del 6/3/13” di Antonella Stirati

PART II: INCOME DISTRIBUTION
“La riduzione del prodotto che va al lavoro” di Antonella Stirati del 16 Novembre 2010
“Towards a sustainable recovery: the case for wage-led policies”, da pag. 161 a 186
“Wages, employment, distribution and growth” di Levrero e Stirati in Hein, Heise a Truger da pag. 93 a 114
“Il problema salariale in Italia” di Maurizio Zenezini, da pag. 2 a 31

PART III: LABOUR MARKET FLEXIBILITY AND EMPLOYMENT
“Manuale di economia del lavoro”, capitolo 9 e 10 da pag. 215 a 249
“Are protective labor market institutions at the root of unemplOyment? A critical review of the evidence” di Howel, Baker, Glyn and Smchitt, da pag. 53 a 71
“Employment growth in Italy in the 1990s: institutional arrangements and market forces” di Brandolini, Casadio, Cipollone, Magnani, Rosolia e Torrini, da pag. 31 a 68
“La flessibilità del mercato del lavoro e il mito del conflitto tra generazioni” di Antonella Stirati, da pag. 181 a 191
“Oltre l’austerità” di Cesaratto e Pivetti, da pag. 133 a 144 (articolo di Antonella Stirati)

Detailed course structure

General Part

- Introduction to the Economics of Innovation

- Innovation and Performance: Growth, Employment, Productivity, Export, Environment

- The theoretical foundations of Science, Innovation and Technology Policies

- The role of Intellectual Property Rights

- Subsidies and tax credit for R&D

- Public policies for eco-innovation

The Italian case

- The characteristics of the Italian production system

- The role of public enterprises in the industrial development of Italy

- The Italian National Innovation System

- Industrial Policy in Italy

European Regional Policies to promote business investment in innovation activities

- Structural Funds for Cohesion Policies

- The objectives of the 2014-2020 programming period

-The effects of cohesion policies on firms’ performances

Teaching material will be available to students in a shared Dropbox folder.

Students NOT attending the course

Textbooks

Handbook of The Economics of Innovation, Vol. 2, edited by Bronwyn H. Hall and Nathan Rosenberg, Elsevier (All Chapters).

M. Mazzucato, The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths (Anthem 2013)

Students attending the course

- Handbook of The Economics of Innovation, Vol. 2, edited by Bronwyn H. Hall and Nathan Rosenberg, Elsevier (Chapters 20-21-24-25-26-27-28).

Compulsory readings (FOR ALL STUDENTS)

Amatori, F., Bugamelli, M., Colli, A. (2011). Italian firms in history: size, technology and entrepreneurship. Bank of Italy Economic History Working Papers, 13, pp. 1–53.

Antonelli C., Barbiellini Amidei F., Fassio C. (2014). The mechanisms of knowledge governance: State owned enterprises and Italian economic growth, 1950–1994. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Vol. 31, pp. 43-63.

Archibugi D. and Filippetti A., (2015). Knowledge as Global Public Good. In: The Handbook of Global Science, Technology, and Innovation, First Edition. Daniele Archibugi and Andrea Filippetti (eds). DOI: 10.1111/b.9781118739068.2015.00025.x.

Archibugi D. and Filippetti A., (2017). The retreat of public research and its adverse consequences on innovation. Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Article in Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2017.05.022

Calvino F. and Virgillito M. E., (2017). The innovation-employment nexus: a critical survey of theory and empirics. Journal of Economic Surveys, DOI: 10.1111/joes.12190.

Cerulli, G., Poti, B., 2012. Designing ex-post assessment of corporate RDI policies: conceptualization, indicators and modeling. World Rev. Sci. Technol. Sustain. Dev. 9, 2–4.

Costantini, V., Crespi, F., (2013). Public policies for a sustainable energy sector: regulation, diversity and fostering of innovation. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 23, pp. 401-429.

Costantini, V., Crespi, F., Martini, C., Pennacchio, L., (2015). Demand-pull and technology-push public support for eco-innovation: The case of the biofuels sector, Research Policy, Vol. 44, pp. 577-595.

Costantini V., Crespi F., Palma, A., (2017), Characterizing the policy mix and its impact on eco-innovation: a patent analysis of energy-efficient technologies, Research Policy, Vol. 46, pp. 799-819.

Costantini, V., Crespi, F., Marin, G., Paglialunga, E. (2017). Eco-innovation, sustainable supply chains and environmental performance in European industries. Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 155, pp. 141-154.

V Costantini, F Crespi, E Paglialunga (2018), The employment impact of private and public actions for energy efficiency: Evidence from European industries, Energy Policy 119, 250-267

V Costantini, F Crespi, E Paglialunga, G Sforna, System Transition and Structural Change Processes in the Energy Efficiency of Residential Sector: Evidence from EU Countries, SPRU Working Paper 2018.

European Commission (EC), (2014). Summary of data on the progress made in financing and implementing financial engineering instruments reported by the managing authorities in accordance with Article 67(2)(j) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006. Programming period 2007-2013 (situation as at 31 December 2013). DG Regional and Urban Policy.

European Commission (EC), (2017). European Innovation Scoreboard 2017. DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs.

Goldstein A., (2003). Privatization in Italy 1993 - 2002: Goals, Institutions, Outcomes, and Outstanding Issues. CESifo Working Paper Series No. 912. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=396324

Guarascio D., Pianta M., Bogliacino F., (2016). Export, R&D and new products. A model and a test on European industries. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 26 (4), pp. 869-905.

Mazzucato M. and Semieniuk G., (2017). Public financing of innovation: New questions. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 33(1), pp. 24-48.

Munari F., Roberts E. B., Sobrero M., (2002). Privatization processes and the redefinition of corporate R&D boundaries. Research policy, Vol. 31, pp. 31-53.

OECD, (2014). Measuring Environmental Innovation Using Patent Data: Policy Relevance. ENV/EPOC/WPEI(2014)6/FINAL. OECD Publishing, Paris.

THE COURSE FOCUSES ON THE MAJOR ISSUES OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW: THE CONCEPT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, THE ORGANIZATION AND THE PUBLIC STRUCTURES, THE PRIVATISATION OF THE INSTITUTIONS AND PUBLIC SERVICES. PARTICULAR ATTENTION WILL BE GIVEN TO THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND TO THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LEADERSHIP. WILL BE ANALYZED ALSO THE THEMES OF PRIVATE RIGHTS AGAINST THE PUBLIC POWERS , THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES AND ACT, PUBLIC LIABILITY AND CONTRACTS.

G. CORSO, MANUALE DI DIRITTO AMMINISTRATIVO, TORINO, GIAPPICHELLI, 2017 - PAG. 1-475.
OPPURE
- V. CERULLI IRELLI, LINEAMENTI DI DIRITTO AMMINISTRATIVO, TORINO, GIAPPICHELLI, 2017.
OPPURE
- MAZZAROLLI, PERICU, ALB. ROMANO, ROVERSI MONACO, SCOCA (A CURA DI), DIRITTO AMMINISTRATIVO, VOL. I, BOLOGNA, MONDUZZI, 2005.
SI CONSIGLIA LA LETTURA DI:
P. LAZZARA, GLI ATTI E I PROVVEDIMENTI, IN MANUALE DI DIRITTO PUBBLICO, A CURA DI F. FRACCHIA, NAPOLI, EDITORIALE SCIENTIFICA, 2010, PAGG. 225 – 237.

- Introduction to the study of social security law.
The social security boundaries; the Welfare State origins and development in Europe; social security models. The Italian model and its historical evolution; constitutional principles of security, social security and social assistance (Article 38 of the Constitution); notions of need, risk, solidarity, assistance, welfare, social insurance, social security. The recipients of protection; national and community sources; evolution perspective of the Italian Welfare model. From Welfare to Workfare.
- Social security and welfare.
The legal system of social security; recipients and in need situations that are protected; the contributory system; the legal social security relationship; the pension protection for incapacity of work, old age and death; perspective of pension system reforming; the supplementary private pension; social assistance.
-Health and safety protection and insurance against work accidents.
Health and safety protection at the workplace: constitutional principles and the duty to protect the employer; the evolution of the special legislation on health and safety. Legislative Decree n. 81/2008. The subjects involved in the protection of health and safety: duties, obligations, civil and criminal liability; the prevention and the employer’s responsibility. Insurance legislation against work accidents and occupational diseases: social security protection and limits on the employer's civil liability; work accident and occupational disease; social security benefits; biological damage.
- The unemployment protection and active labor policies.
Social safety nets and income support measures: unemployment benefits; salary supplement payments; protection against the employer’s insolvency; perspective of social safety nets system reforming and the problem of social protection of discontinuous work; the emergence of irregular work. Problems of connection between active and passive policies.

M. D'Onghia, M Persiani, Fondamenti di diritto della previdenza sociale, Giappichelli, Latest edition

- Stylized Facts of the Business Cycle. Basic concepts and definitions

- Business cycle theories from Keynes to Monetarism

- Traditional keynesian stabilization policies and rule-based policies

- The Lucas' island model and the role of expectations

- The Real Business cycle theory and the money neutrality

- The New Keynesian approach: the demand side and the monetary policy

- Simulation of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models using Dynare for Matlab

Enrico Marchetti “Teorie del ciclo economico. Il dibattito moderno su instabilità e equilibrio”, Esculapio, 2009.
Additional teaching material will be provided.

Macroeconomics and development
The course addresses a number of macroeconomic issues with a focus on development and growth, income distribution, institutions, and the growth-inequality-poverty nexus.

The module will typically cover the following topics:
• Introduction: principal macroeconomic issues of development
• Economic growth: Growth models as tools for analyzing the macroeconomics of development
• Stages of Growth
• Macroeconomic stability and growth in developing countries
• Geography, Culture and Institutions
• Income distribution and Macroeconomics
• Inequality, growth and welfare policy

Syllabus provided at the beginning of the course

Macroeconomics and development
The course addresses a number of macroeconomic issues with a focus on development and growth, income distribution, institutions, and the growth-inequality-poverty nexus.

The module will typically cover the following topics:
• Introduction: principal macroeconomic issues of development
• Economic growth: Growth models as tools for analyzing the macroeconomics of development
• Stages of Growth
• Macroeconomic stability and growth in developing countries
• Geography, Culture and Institutions
• Income distribution and Macroeconomics
• Inequality, growth and welfare policy

The training material will be discusse during the lecture

1. The Neo-Institutional Theory of the Firm
1.1 Overview of the neoclassical theory of the firm
1.2 Ronal Coase and the transaction cost theory
1.3 The contribution of Oliver Williamson
1.4 Quasi-Rents: Klein, Crawford, Alchian
1.5 Property Rights Theory : Grossman, Hart e Moore
2. The organization of Italian firms
2.1 From large firms and the economic miracle of the 60's to the industrial discticts of the '80s
2.2 Firms and globalization
3. Main issues
3.1 Productivity
3.2 R&D
3.3 ICT
3.4 Internationalization
3.5 Global Value Chains
4. Laboratory session

Che cosa sa fare l'Italia, di Giunta A., Rossi S. (2017), Roma, Laterza. Chapters 2, 3, 4
Other teaching material is available to students in a shared Dropbox folder on the website of the Scuola di Economia e Studi Aziendali .

- Knowledge-based economy and Digital Economy. Fundamentals of the Knowledge-based Economy
- Why is Knowledge the primary productive factor? Data, information, knowledge, (wisdom).
- What is knowledge? Value Drivers in Knowledge Economy
- What is knowledge management?
- Taxonomy and Dimensions of Knowledge
- Knowledge and creativity
- KM and Big Data
- Experience and knowledge
- platform organizations
- Knowledge-intensive and Learning Organizations
- Knowledge, networks, and trust
- The impact of knowldege-based issues on firm performances
- Open Innovation definition. Open Social Innovation definition

Marchegiani L. (2012) Information, Knowledge, Attention: ICTs and Innovative Organizations. LAP Publishing.
Newell S., Robertson M., Scarbrough H., Swan J. (2009) Managing Knowledge Work and Innovation. Palgrave.