21/04/2010 Summer School in New approaches to the study of enterprises: the role of motivations

A pluralism of entrepreneurial forms have traditionally characterised economic systems and new organizational typologies are also emerging, such as cooperative and social enterprises, which are owned by stakeholders rather than investors and have social aims.

In order to deepen the understanding of the nature and the plurality of firms, the traditional economic approaches result quite limited. More attention needs instead to be devoted to the values and motivations that govern enterprises, explain the definition of organizational and members’ aims, and influence the planning of the organizational structures by managers. Traditional tools of investigation must be integrated with the psychological dimension of economic decision making and with the behavioural perspective, with specific attention to extra-monetary motivations.

The Summer School will use both economic theory of the firm and behavioural economics in order to understand the relevance of cooperative drives within firms. Empirical and experimental contributions will give support to theoretical assumptions. Intensive debate among scholars of different training (psychology, sociology, behavioural and institutional economics) is therefore encouraged.

SUMMER SCHOOL PROPOSAL
Scientific directors: Carlo Borzaga, Euricse/University of Trento and Luigi Mittone, Univesity of Trento

Language: English

Participants: The Summer School is aimed at PhD students and researchers. The target number is 15 to 30 partecipants.

Faculty:
Oriana Bandiera
Avner Ben-Ner
Marco Casari
Giovanni Dosi
Enrique Fatas
Urs Fischbacher
Raffaele Miniaci

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Application deadline: 28 May 2010

Confirmation of acceptance: 7 June 2010

Place: The Summer School will be held in the Italian region Trentino, in Garniga Terme

Admission fee: € 600 (in a sinrgle room ); 460 (in a double room) inclusive of participation to the program, full board accommodation (wi-fi internet connection and pool access included), coffee break and two guided visits.

The Summer School is organized by Euricse in collaboration with: University of Trento, AICCON, CEEL.