Modules and lecturers

 MODULE 1- Evolution of theories and modes of economic organization and governance

• Robert Gibbons, MIT, Sloan BS: From hard to soft governance. 
• Anna Grandori, Bocconi University: From relational to constitutional governance.
• Scott Masten, University of Michigan: Transaction costs, hierarchies, and other bases and forms of firm governance.
• Nicolai  Foss, Bocconi University: Transaction costs, resources and learning in theories of the firm.

 

MODULE 2 – The evolution of microfoundations of economic organization

• Nicolai Foss, Bocconi University: Knowledge governance.
• Siegwart Lindenberg, University of Groningen: Cognition and governance.
• Anna Grandori, Bocconi University: From bounded to epistemic rationality, discovery and governance.
• Avner Ben Ner, University of Minnesota: The discovery of cognition and knowledge processing.    

 

MODULE 3 - The history and foundations of forms of enterprise 

• Margaret Blair, Vanderbilt University Law School: History of the corporate form in the US: theories, laws and practices.
• Renate Meyer, University of Vienna: History of the corporate form in Europe: theories, laws and practices. 
• Lorenzo Sacconi, University of Trento: The contractual foundations of multi-stakeholder governance in corporations and other forms of enterprise.
• Anna Grandori, Bocconi University: The contractual and legal foundations of the firm as a multi-actor  ‘societas’ in modern constitutional democracies.  

 

MODULE 4 - The evolving relations of firms with labor and finance

• Thomas Kochan, MIT, Sloan BS: The evolving governance of firm-labor relations. Implications for law and reform.  
• Anna Grandori, Bocconi University: The governance of knowledge intensive labor and human capital investments. 
• Colin Mayer, University of Oxford, Said BS: The evolving governance of firms’ relations with financial investors and financial  markets. Implications for regulation.