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The course aims to provide students the main relational and coordination skills that are typical of organizations operating on international markets. This shall be referred both to the case of firms concerned with direct activity of foreign assets and to others merely involved in indirect asset-driven activity. Such an approach is focused on several cognitive-relational capabilities that are required to face the variety of cultural contexts, diversity, internal/ external innovation, peer-to-peer relationships and face-to-face interactions.

Knowledge and understanding:
students shall be able to deal with the basic principles of organizational decision-making in dynamic and highly uncertain environments. The course will frame leadership through the understanding of the three fundamental spheres of socio-organizational behavior of international firms: cognitive, procedural and symbolic one.

Applying knowledge and understanding: the student shall be able to effectively and logically explain the process that allows an organization to bring out an appropriate style of leadership with regard to the social and international economic context in which firms operate. Specific emphasis is placed on improving the provision of negotiating capabilities that leading decision-makers should achieve as active managers in international business relations.

Making judgement:
at the end of the course, the student is supposed to embrace the capability of critically evaluating the main empirical problems of coordination involved in complex organization choices. Data and indicators should be used in a way that facilitates the understanding of international business scenarios.

Communication skills: the student shall be able to argue on two levels: the scientific one, with specific terminology appropriateness, and the disseminating one, with addressed towards explaining notions even to non-professionals people.

Learning skills: the student shall benefit from the acquired theoretical and empirical knowledge so that he/she could face the recurrent issues dealing with leadership for international business firms.