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Academic calendar
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Course calendar
The Academic Calendar sets out the degree programme lecture and exam timetables, as well as the relevant university closure dates..
Period | From | To |
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1 A | Sep 26, 2022 | Nov 5, 2022 |
1 B | Nov 14, 2022 | Dec 22, 2022 |
2 A | Feb 13, 2023 | Apr 6, 2023 |
2 B | Apr 12, 2023 | May 27, 2023 |
Session | From | To |
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Sessione invernale | Jan 9, 2023 | Feb 11, 2023 |
Sessione estiva | Jun 5, 2023 | Jul 29, 2023 |
Sessione autunnale | Aug 28, 2023 | Sep 23, 2023 |
Session | From | To |
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Sessione straordinaria (a.a. 2021/22) | Mar 31, 2023 | Apr 6, 2023 |
Sessione estiva | Jul 10, 2023 | Jul 15, 2023 |
Sessione autunnale | Nov 6, 2023 | Nov 11, 2023 |
Sessione straordinaria | Apr 2, 2024 | Apr 8, 2024 |
Period | From | To |
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Chiusura edifici | Oct 31, 2022 | Oct 31, 2022 |
Festa di Ognissanti | Nov 1, 2022 | Nov 1, 2022 |
Festa dell'Immacolata | Dec 8, 2022 | Dec 8, 2022 |
Chiusura edifici | Dec 9, 2022 | Dec 10, 2022 |
Vacanze di Natale | Dec 23, 2022 | Jan 7, 2023 |
Vacanze di Pasqua | Apr 7, 2023 | Apr 10, 2023 |
Festa della Liberazione | Apr 25, 2023 | Apr 25, 2023 |
Festa del lavoro | May 1, 2023 | May 1, 2023 |
Festa del Santo Patrono | May 21, 2023 | May 21, 2023 |
Festa della Repubblica | Jun 2, 2023 | Jun 2, 2023 |
Chiusura estiva | Aug 13, 2023 | Aug 19, 2023 |
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Study Plan
The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
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2° Year activated in the A.Y. 2023/2024
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Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)
TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
Management for businesses in the publishing sector (2023/2024)
Teaching code
4S02881
Academic staff
Coordinator
Credits
12
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
SECS-P/08 - MANAGEMENT
Period
CuCi 1 A, CuCi 1 B
Courses Single
Authorized
Learning objectives
The course “An Introduction to Publishing Management” aims at providing advanced knowledge which will allow participants to gain interest into and to be able to perform several jobs within a publishing company. In order to allow the students to combine the contents of the course with the practical experience of the firms, two seminars held by industry specialists – who will voluntarily take part to the course to talk about their experience – will be organised.
Prerequisites and basic notions
No prior knowledge is required
Program
The sustainable business system: founding principles.
The business and its functions: the concept and types of business, the economic and meta-economic functions of the business, income, profitability and profit, the conditions for corporate profitability.
The context in which the company operates: the immediate competitive and relational environment and the remote environment. The concept of stakeholder and the different types of stakeholders. The characteristics of the environment, the environmental complexity and its determinants, how to operate in a complex environment. The forms of the market and the barriers to entry and exit of companies from the market.
The original production factors: knowledge, creativity, trust; capital and labor as derivative factors of production.
The entrepreneur and the birth of the company: the traits characterizing the entrepreneur, the entrepreneurial purposes, the stages of the company's birth and the related resources.
Innovation and corporate creativity: terminological issues, types of innovation, corporate creativity and its dimensions, the main innovative paths in the company.
How the company is made: institutional set-up, value substrate, production system and organizational system.
The production function: production capacity, cost trends and sizing choices, types of production process, production location choices, methods of carrying out the production process between integration and decentralization.
Corporate organization and staff management: the organizational structure and organizational principles, organizational structure models, the concept of motivation and motivational theories, management styles.
How the company operates: mission, vision, purpose, strategic planning path.
The concept of strategy.
The principles of sustainable strategic management of the company: the objectives of the sustainable company, the value system, the value chain and relationships.
Sustainable strategic management: strategic implications.
Overall strategies, competitive strategies. Vertical and horizontal integration.
Operational comparison problems: the Break Even Point model.
Some relevant choices of product, distribution, price and communication.
Marketing applications in publishing.
The book.
The marketing of the book
The book supply chain and the page economy.
The book market and the relationships between the various publishing players.
Digitization in the publishing world.
STUDY MATERIALS:
- Claudio Baccarani, Federico Brunetti, Elena Giaretta (a cura di), Impresa e management tra competitività e progresso, Giappichelli, Torino, 2015 (chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and paragraphs 11.5, 13.1, 13.3 (and its sub-paragraphs).
- Fabio Severino, Il marketing dei libri: teorie e casi di studio, Editrice Bibliografica, Milano, 2012.
- Lecture notes and company testimonials.
- Materials on e-learning platform.
For further information:
- Paola Dubini, Voltare Pagina, 4° edizione, Pearson, 2017, ISBN 9788871926599
STUDY MATERIALS FOR NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS:
- Claudio Baccarani, Federico Brunetti, Elena Giaretta (a cura di), Impresa e management tra competitività e progresso, Giappichelli, Torino, 2015 (chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15 and paragraphs 11.5, 13.1, 13.3 (and its sub-paragraphs).
- Fabio Severino, Il marketing dei libri: teorie e casi di studio, Editrice Bibliografica, Milano, 2012.
- Materials on e-learning platform.
Per approfondimenti:
- Paola Dubini, Voltare Pagina, 4° edizione, Pearson, 2017, ISBN 9788871926599
The content of the textbooks adheres to the program. Additional in-depth educational material on publishing will be made available during the semester of lessons on the teaching e-learning platform.
Bibliography
Didactic methods
The teaching activity is divided into lectures and the discussion of business cases through the testimonies of entrepreneurs and managers. Group work activities are also expected to be carried out in the classroom.
Learning assessment procedures
The exam is carried out through an oral test, which focuses on the entire course program.
Evaluation criteria
The oral exam is aimed at ascertaining:
- general vision of the discipline,
- mastery of language,
- in-depth study of individual topics,
- ability to connect topics (mental elasticity),
- ability to critical analysis,
- ability to apply concepts to reality .
Criteria for the composition of the final grade
The final evaluation is expressed in 30ths.
Exam language
Italiano
Type D and Type F activities
COMPETENZE TRASVERSALI
years | Modules | TAF | Teacher |
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1° 2° | FAI Activities | F |
Edoardo Bianchi
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° | Series of conferences Don Nicola Mazza University College | F |
Alessandra Zangrandi
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° | Business English for everybody | F |
Serena Dal Maso
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° | Russian for everybody | F |
Serena Dal Maso
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° | Worlds of Fashion: Themes and Actors | F |
Alessandra Zamperini
(Coordinator)
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years | Modules | TAF | Teacher |
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1° 2° | FAI Activities | F |
Edoardo Bianchi
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° | Series of conferences Don Nicola Mazza University College | F |
Alessandra Zangrandi
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° | Conference PRIN "Ippolito Nievo tra i Mille" | F |
Alessandra Zangrandi
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° | Business English for everybody | F |
Serena Dal Maso
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° | Russian for everybody | F |
Serena Dal Maso
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° | From Romeo and Juliet to Juliet and Romeo: between Law and Passion”: Colloquium on Riccardo Zandonai | F |
Silvia Bigliazzi
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° | Worlds of Fashion: Themes and Actors | F |
Alessandra Zamperini
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° | Squadristi in celluloid. The march on Rome between documentary and fiction | F |
Denis Lotti
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° | Università e DSA - Metodi e strategie per affrontare lo studio e il percorso universitario | F |
Simona Brunetti
(Coordinator)
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years | Modules | TAF | Teacher |
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1° 2° | Gnoseology and Metaphysics Workshop | F |
Davide Poggi
(Coordinator)
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years | Modules | TAF | Teacher |
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1° 2° | FAI Activities | F |
Edoardo Bianchi
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° | Fine della "globalizzazione"? Dialoghi sul mondo che cambia | F |
Giovanni Bernardini
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° | Introduction to robotics for humanities students | F |
Paolo Fiorini
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° | Workshop on digital publishing | F |
Andrea Bongiorni
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° | Laboratorio di scrittura critica per lo spettacolo | F |
Simona Brunetti
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° | Opera Workshop | F |
Nicola Pasqualicchio
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° | "Shake Shakespeare Up!" workshop | F |
Silvia Bigliazzi
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° | Theatre with wheels | F | Not yet assigned |
years | Modules | TAF | Teacher |
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1° 2° | Gnoseology and Metaphysics Workshop | F |
Davide Poggi
(Coordinator)
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years | Modules | TAF | Teacher |
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1° 2° | Future's Festival | F |
Alessandra Zangrandi
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° | Laboratory of radio languages | F |
Simona Brunetti
(Coordinator)
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Graduation
List of thesis proposals
theses proposals | Research area |
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Laureandi Editoria e Giornalismo: vademecum | Various topics |
TESI SU COMUNICAZIONE DELL’AGROALIMENTARE | Various topics |