Superior

Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of 2 upper-division college-level Spanish courses at their home university in the U.S.

PROGRAM

PART I. INTRODUCTION TO THE ECONOMICS OF ORGANIZATIONS.

1. The economic problem: basic suppositions and solutions.
2. Markets and organizations.
3. Business as a nexus of contracts.

PART II. THE DESIGN OF THE ORGANIZATION.

4. Mechanisms of coordination: the team.
5. Coordination and conflict of interests: the coalition.
6. Vertical specialization: employee relations.
7. Delegation of decision-making: the agency relation.

PART III. CONFLICT AND NEGOTIATION.

8. Sources and types of conflicts.
9. Positive and normative approaches to the negotiating process.

REFERENCE BIBLIOGRAPHY

Salas Fumás,V., Economía de la Empresa: Decisiones y Organización (Ed. Ariel, 2.ª edición, Barcelona, 1996).

COMPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY

Brickley, A., Smith C.W. y Zimmerman, J. L., Managerial Economics and Organizational Architecture (Ed. Irwing,
Chicago, 1997).
Douma, S. y H. Schreuder, Economic Approaches to Organizations, 2ª ed. (Prentice Hall, London, 1998).
Milgrom, P. y Roberts, J., Economía, Organización y Gestión de la Empresa (Ed. Ariel, Barcelona, 1992)
Putterman, L. (ed.), La Naturaleza Económica de la Empresa. Alianza (Madrid, 1994).
Rasmusen, E., Juegos e Información (Ed. Fondo de Cultura Económica, México, 1989).
Serra, A., La Empresa. Análisis Económico (Ed. Labor. Madrid, 1993).