The first part of this class provides students with theoretical background and operational techniques to analyse organisations, design or re-design an organisation structure accounting for goals and contextual factors and understanding the impact of organisation design on firm performance. This class focuses on the challenges of organisation design in unpredictable environments characterised by quick change rate and high interdependence among economic actors.
The secon part of this class focuses on innovation processes and provides students with theoretical background and operational techniques to analyse the innovation life-cycle, the sources of innovation and innovation management.