História Empresarial
Código
1209-132
Unidade Orgânica
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Departamento
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Créditos
7,5
Professor responsável
Álvaro Ferreira da Silva
Língua de ensino
English
Objectivos
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Pré-requisitos
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Conteúdo
1.Introduction
2.Tradition and innovation: the business firm and the Industrial Revolution
2.Tradition and innovation: the business firm and the Industrial Revolution
3.The advent of the modern industrial enterprise (1850-1914)
a)The railways: the first modern business
b)The advent of mass retailers
c)The road to mass production
d)The integration between mass distribution and mass production
e)Factors to the rise of big business
4.The diffusion of the ´American model´´
a)Business structures in Britain, Germany and Japan
b)The ´Americanization´ of the European business
c)The multinational enterprises
5.The functions of the firm: an historical perspective
a)Marketing
b)Technology and innovation
c)Corporate finance
d)Industrial relations
e)Business organization
f)Entrepreneurship and management
g)Beyond the firm: business groups and networks
6.Business in motion
a)The automobile sector
b)The IT sector
c)The services sector ´ the consultancy services
d)Financial crises: Blowing bubbles and defaulting sovereigns
7.Business and state
a)Regulation in historical perspective
b)The evolution of the state-owned enterprise
8.Conclusion ´ The modern firm: summary and prospective
Bibliografia
AMATORI, Franco and COLLI (2011), Business History: Complexities and Comparisons. London: Routledge.
BLACKFORD, M. G. (1998), The Rise of Modern Business in Great Britain, the United States and Japan. Chapel Hill: The Univ. of North Carolina Press.
CHANDLER JR., A. D. (1977), The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. Cambridge MA: Harvard Univ. Press.
CHANDLER JR., A. D. (1989) Scale and Scope. The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism. Cambridge MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
CHANDLER JR., A. D. and TEDLOW, R. S. (1985), The Coming of Managerial Capitalism. Homewood (Ill.).
CHANDLER JR., A. D., AMATORI, F. and HIKINO, T. (eds.) (1997), Big Business and the Wealth of Nations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
HANNAH, L. (1983), The Rise of the Corporate Economy. London: Methuen.
JONES, G. (1996), The Evolution of International Business: an Introduction. London: Routledge.
JONES, G. (2005), Multinationals and global capitalism: from the nineteenth to the twenty first century. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.
JONES, G. And ZEITLIN, Jonathan (2008), The Oxford Handbook of Business History. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.
MCCRAW, T. K. (ed.) (1997), Creating Modern Capitalism; How Entrepreneurs, Companies and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions. Cambridge MA: Harvard Univ. Press.
SUPPLE, B. E. (ed.) (1992), The Rise of Big Business. Aldershot: E. Elgar.
TONINELLI, P. A. (ed.) (2000), The Rise and Fall of State-Owned Enterprise in the Western World. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press
Método de ensino
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Método de avaliação
The assessment will be based on the following items:
1.Oral presentation and written summary (20% of the final classification);
2.Written summary (20%);
3.Business goes to the movies (5%);
4.Participation in the discussions (5%);
5.Final exam (50%).
However, in order to pass students should have a classification equal to or over 9.0 in the final exam.
The work assignments have the following characteristics:
a)Oral presentation and written summary (1000 words max.) based on one of the texts for each practical class (team work, 2 students ´ 20% of the final grade). Further characteristics of this work will be presented in the first class. The written summary is due at the time of the presentation.
b)Written summary (1000 words max.) on another text for the practical classes (individual work ´ 20% of the final grade). Further characteristics of this work will be presented in the first class. The written summary is due at the respective practical class. The students writing these individual summaries should also contribute to the respective practical class. The quality of this contribution will also be taken into consideration to the grade.
c)Business goes to the movies (250 words max.) ´ Short review of a movie whose argument you seem adequate to discuss topics on Business History (team work ´ 5% of the final grade).
d)Participation in the discussions ´ Discussion will be open in practical classes and the forum Debate (5% of the final grade).