SUSTAINABLE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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Patrizio Graziani
Lecturers' profile
Program - Frequency - Exams
Course program
The course is divided into seven teaching units, and some operative teaching activities. The themes of the teaching units are as follows:
1) Introduction to the issues of company sustainibilit: ESG.
2) Evolution of purpose, governance, and management in the framework of sustainability;
3) The process of creating sustainable sustainable value.
4) The role of stakeholders in creating sustainable valu;e.
5) Methods to measure and a evaluate company's sustainability.
6) Processes and methods for assessing social impacts.
7) Case studies on Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Some qualified guest speakers will intervene on sustainability and social entrepreneurship themes; moreover analysis of case studies as well as the students will develop projects.
Prerequisites
There are no requirements.
Books
Teaching unit 1
Paolo Taticchi- Sostenibilità e Innovazione: la rivoluzione del business - Dedalo Edizioni 2025
Teaching Unit 2-3-4
One of the following books
Francesco Perrini – Sostenibilità – 2018 – EGEA Milano
Matteo Caroli - Economia e Gestione Sostenibile delle Imprese - 2021 - Mc Graw Hill (capitoli da 1 a 6, 8, 9.9, 9.10, 9.11, 10.4.7, 11.1, 11.2
Articles and essays suggested
V. Coda "Lo scopo dell'impresa" - Impresa Progetto n.3/2020 www.impresaprogetto.it
M.E. Porter - M.R.Kramer "Strategy and society: the link between competitive advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility" Harvard Business Review Dec 2006
M.E. Porter - M.R.Kramer "Creating Shared Value" Harvard Business Review Feb 2011
V.Bockstette - M.Stamp "Creating Shared Value: a how to guide for the New Corporate (R)evolution" Oct 2011 www.fsg.org
Teaching unit 5
Luca Dal Fabbro - La misurazione della Sostenibilità - 2022 - Rubbettino Editore - (cap 1, 2.1, 3, 4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3)
Teaching unit 6
Francesco Perrini, Clodia Vurro – La valutazione degli impatti sociali, Approcci e strumenti applicativi – 2013 – EGEA, Milano cap 1-3
Teaching Unit 7
For the business cases, during the course references will be provided to find the relevant documentation
Lecture notes and materials distributed by the teacher
Frequency
Not mandatory but strongly recommended
Exam mode
The evaluation will be carried out through a written test at the end of the course. For attending students the possibility of carrying out intermediate learning assessment tests during the course, always through written tests, will be evaluated.
Lesson mode
Traditional lectures, individual and group projects, guest speakers, case studies
- Lesson code10600188
- Academic year2025/2026
- CourseManagement of technologies, innovation and sustainability
- CurriculumGestione sostenibile d'impresa
- Year2nd year
- Semester1st semester
- SSDSECS-P/08
- CFU9