PhD in Economics and Management

The course aims at developing Ph.D. students’ knowledge about the theoretical framework of Corporate Governance (CG), making them understanding how and from where the problem of governance arises in states, public and private entities.
The solution to this problem should promote transparent and efficient markets, be consistent with the rule of law and clearly articulate the division of responsibilities among different supervisory, regulatory and enforcement authorities.
Focussing on a corporate level, lectures will show how firms are controlled, who actually exercise this control, the way to reduce and manage corporate risk through effective internal control systems, and mechanisms driving the distribution of the created value among shareholders.
The historical evolution of theories regarding CG and different related topics are both considered, to get tools useful to carry on (or to understand) CG research, and to better understand and use related methodologies. Some CG papers regarding CG will examined in a critical way.
The course will provide the students the opportunity to (a) understand and debate the current and up-to-date scientific research on CG through the analysis of some of the CG papers presented in recent international conferences; (b) listen to current researches developed by scholars belonging to our university; (c) discuss some recent papers dealing with CG topics with an active contribution by the PhD Students themselves.

Program

1° Basic issues of Corporate Governance
• The CG in the post-modern forms of economic and political organizations: the governance of state, public entities and corporates
• The international debate about CG
• Differences between governance and management
• Different forms of corporate control

2° The theoretical framework of CG
• From the agency cost theory to the stakeholder theory
• The institutional theories of the firm
• Firm paradigms in economics and management theory • The Italian perspectives of CG
• International research mainstreams in CG

3° Financial markets, institutional investors and corporate governance: the international context
• Anglo-American forms of control and related capitalism
• German and Japanese form of control and related capitalism
• The “Latin” and Italian path towards capitalism
• The SMEs (Small Medium Enterprises) in the Italian market
• The division of responsibilities among different supervisory, regulatory and enforcement authorities

4° Key issues in CG
• The structure of CG regulation: the body of principles acting worldwide and
in single countries
• Interaction among boards, committees and statutory auditors in different kinds of governance structures
• The role and composition of the board of directors • The role and composition of the auditory systems
• The remuneration of directors and senior executives

5° The internal control system
•Identifying, measuring, managing and monitoring corporate risks
•Different models of internal control systems
•The compliance risks
•The risk management function
•The system of internal audit

6° The CG in SMEs
• International research about SMEs
• The family business
• The relationship between family and corporate level
• The succession problems in SMEs and family business
• Information quality in SMEs and family business

7° CG and value creation
• Accountability in CG systems
• Compliance, knowledge and performance in an integrated CG View
• Relationship among CG, corporate information and value production for stakeholders

8° Doing research in Corporate Governance
• CG and quantitative research
• CG and qualitative research
• Accounting and Governance research
• Accounting history and Governance research

Reference texts
Author	Title	Publishing house	Year	ISBN
Alessandro Lai, Giulia Leoni, Riccardo Stacchezzini	Accounting and governance in diverse settings - an introduction (Edizione 24)	Sage: rivista Accounting History 24(3), pp. 325-337	2019
Comitato per la Corporate Governance	Codice di Corporate Governance	http://www.borsaitaliana.it/comitato-corporate-governance/homepage/homepage.htm	2020
Alessandro Zattoni	Corporate Governance	Egea	2015	9788823822016
Alessandro Lai (a cura di)	Il contributo del sistema di prevenzione e gestione dei rischi alla generazione del valore d'impresa	Franco Angeli	2013	9788820490034
Patrizia Riva	Ruoli di Corporate Governance. Aspetti organizzativi e DNF	Egea	2020	9788823837607

Examination Methods

The evaluation of Ph.D. students is based:
• 40% on classroom presentation and discussion of papers;
• 60% on a paper to be written by each student at the end of the course.

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE

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PhD students present in the:

Jobe Amie M.

amiem.jobe@univr.it

Opoku Enock Desmond

enockdesmond.opoku@univr.it

Xamo Andrea

andrea.xamo@univr.it

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Academic writing in latex and academic presentation

Advanced English for Academic Skills

Agenda dell’organizzazione delle nazioni unite 2030 sullo sviluppo sostenibile, ricerca e diritto antidiscriminatorio: strumenti ed esperienze nelle università

Artificial intelligence, cybersecurity e diritto

Behavioral and Experimental Economics

Comunicare la scienza: il ruolo dei ricercatori e il rapporto tra esperti, cittadini e istituzioni

Corporate Governance

Corso di inglese B1/certificazione B1

Corso di inglese B2/certificazione B2

Corso di inglese C1/certificazione C1

Corso di lingua italiana per stranieri

Corso di programmazione con matlab

Medical statistics with R

Basic statistics course

Intermediate statistics course

(Meta-analysis using the statistical software Stata and R

Corso teorico-pratico di microscopia di base

Development economics

Diritto d'autore e brevetti

Dissemination dei risultati della ricerca

Econometrics for management

Economia dei Mercati Energetici

English for academic presentations

English for academic writing

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Game Theory

Inequality

Introduzione al “public speaking”

La mia archeologia e la mia politica culturale

Python programming language

Macro economics

Mathematics

Microeconomics 1

Organization Theory

Political economy

Presentation of Horizon Europe framework programme

Probability

Project writing for beginners

Qualitative methodologies in management studies

Quantitative methodologies in management studies

Seminario Consigliera di fiducia

Software R

Spin off e start-up innovative

Statistica

Supply Chain Management

Protecting psychological well-being in the PhD program: development and enhancement of personal strategies and attitudes that predispose to professional satisfaction and ethical collaboration.

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