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Masters Degree Disserta+ons
with the Strategic Management Group @ Unibg
Group: Strategic Management @ UNIBG
Fan page: Center for Young & Family Enterprise - CYFE
UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO Department of Economics and Technology Management Prof. Lucio Cassia Prof. Alfredo De Massis Prof. Tommaso Minola
Center for Young & Family Enterprise 2 University of Bergamo Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship Group
The DissertaKon with us: key quesKons
• When to start? • Goals? • InnovaKveness/ originality? • Lenght? • Alone or in a team? • Degree of interacKon with firms? • Needed resources?
Center for Young & Family Enterprise 3 University of Bergamo Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship Group
The DissertaKon with us: an entrepreneurial opportunity
• Synergies with CYFE acKviKes and projects
• OpportuniKes of internal (e.g. within CYFE) and external internships (e.g. in
interna2onal projects or local firms)
• High degree of interacKon with real corporate and entrepreneurial acKviKes
• Work in a young and dynamic environment
• InternaKonal context
Center for Young & Family Enterprise 4 University of Bergamo Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship Group
Family Business
The research areas
Young Entrepreneurship
Social Entrepreneurship
& Corporate Social
Responsibility
Center for Young & Family Enterprise 5 University of Bergamo Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship Group
DISSERTATION TOPICS EXAMPLES:
• Family business goals: who makes the difference? Family business are different, and have different goals: a in-‐depth invesKgaKon of real cases
• Strategic analysis in family firms: the compe++ve advantage in the FB resources. How to measure them, how to improve them: model development and case study
• Interna+onaliza+on of family firms. Why , when , and how to develop an internaKonal strategy for family firms?
• Corporate Venturing in family firms
Family Business
Management of the relationships within the family
Management of the relationships with non-family members
Succession planning
Training & development of potential successor
Selection of successor
Closure of the process
1° Generation
3° Generation
2° Generation
4° Generation
12% 4%
30%
100%
Only 12% of FBs succeeds over the 3° generation
Center for Young & Family Enterprise 6 University of Bergamo Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship Group
Young Entrepreneurship
DISSERTATION TOPICS EXAMPLES:
• How many young start a business? Facts and figures about the phenomenon of youth entrepreneurship in this territory and in Italy
• Youth entrepreneurship defini+on What is the definiKon of such phenomenon? Is it a ma`er of age or being first generaKon entrepreneur? What is their educaKon?
• Characteris+cs of young entrepreneurs Study on creaKvity, networking acKvity and innovaKon; are they inherently different?
• Financing and star+ng juvenile firms A study on peculiar financial tools and constraint in the process of creaKng a company
Center for Young & Family Enterprise 7 University of Bergamo Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship Group
• What is social entrepreneurship Social entrepreneurship encompasses the acKviKes and processes undertaken to discover, define and exploit opportuniKes in order to enhance social wealth by creaKng new ventures or managing exisKng organizaKons in an innovaKve manner (Zahra et al., 2009)
• What is corporate social responsibility Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is the voluntary integraKon by companies of social and environmental concerns in their business operaKons and in their interacKon with various stakeholders
• DISSERTATION TOPICS EXAMPLES – Social goals vs. economic goals: how a social entrepreneur deals with this trade-‐off. – Strengths and weaknesses of a social oriented strategy : an empirical invesKgaKon in a for-‐
profit firm.
Social Entrepreneurship & Corporate Social Responsibility
Center for Young & Family Enterprise 8 University of Bergamo Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship Group
Entrepreneurial Strategy
• Entrepreneurship as a strategy How can firm behave more entrepreneurially? How can individual contribute? What are the effect on performances?
• Entrepreneurship and innova+on
Analysis on new venture and entrepreneurial firms: how entrepreneurship can sKmulate technological change and vice versa. Examples and case studies.
• Entrepreneurship and…
Further ideas on the role of entrepreneurship in business and society will be considered
Center for Young & Family Enterprise 9 University of Bergamo Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship Group
How to apply for a dissertaKon to our group
Candidate
-‐ Personal informaKon -‐ Name, ID number -‐ Birth date -‐ E-‐mail & mobile contacts
-‐ Area(s) of interest
-‐ CV and presentaKon (bachelor degree score, current average score, no. of remaining exams & credits, expected graduaKon session)
-‐ Preference for internal/external internship
Object: “DissertaKon”
Due to the limited number of research works available, the topics will be assigned on the basis of: 1. Student’s moKvaKon and commitment 2. Degree of confidence with English 3. Curriculum evaluaKon
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