Degree | Type | Year |
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Business Administration and Management | OT | 4 |
Economics | OT | 3 |
Economics | OT | 4 |
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it is recomendable to have medium knowledge level of Accountancy and Finance.
Knowledge of strategies associated with sustainable business growth as a source of economic value creation: understanding underlying factors, their limits, competitiveness policy, growth crises, restructuring strategies, mergers and acquisitions, and business growth and value.
Topic 1. Company Growth Concept: Conceptual Introduction
Topic 2. Enterprise growth and macroeconomic policy
Topic 3. Policies and limits to growth in the company
Topic 4. Globalization and internationalization as a growth policy
Topic 5. The multinational or transnational company
Topic 6. The crisis in growth: the turnaround
Topic 7. Regulated growth and the capture of resources.
Topic 8. External growth and M&A
Topic 9. Growth, value creation and valuation methods
Topic 10. Adaptationto change in organizations, the necessary ability of Management to do so.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Practices | 17 | 0.68 | 3, 7, 10, 1, 11, 22, 13, 14, 18, 19, 17, 20, 21, 23, 9, 6 |
Theory | 32.5 | 1.3 | 3, 12, 13, 18, 17, 20, 9, 6 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Tutorials | 28 | 1.12 | 1 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Study of the contents, resolution of exercises and monographic work. | 70 | 2.8 | 2, 3, 7, 8, 10, 1, 11, 22, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 16, 19, 17, 20, 21, 23, 4, 9, 5, 6 |
Theoretical classes: The professor presents the subject matter, encouraging student participation.
Practical classes analyze and discuss exercises and case studies previously completed by the students.
Reading suggestions and discussion of current news related to the subject.
Use of AI
With the aim of guaranteeing coherence and transparency in the use of AI in subjects and specific assessable activities, the UAB has established different models of which this subject applies Model 2 - Restricted Use:
“For this subject, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is permitted exclusively in support tasks, such as bibliographic or information searches, text correction or translations. The student must clearly identify which parts have been generated with this technology, specify the tools used and include a critical reflection on how these have influenced the process and the final result of the activity. The lack of transparency in the use of AI in this assessable activity will be considered a lack of academic honesty and may lead to a partial or total penalty in the grade of the activity, or greater sanctions in serious cases.”
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Class exercices | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 2, 3, 7, 8, 10, 1, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 16, 19, 17, 20, 21, 23, 4, 5, 6 |
Exam | 0.5 | 2 | 0.08 | 2, 3, 7, 8, 22, 12, 14, 15, 18, 16, 21, 9, 5, 6 |
Work exposure | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.02 | 10, 1, 11, 13, 19, 17, 20, 23, 4 |
The final grade will be the weighted average of each of the following activities:
a) 20% participation in class and classroom exercises.
b) 30% presentation of a work on one of the topics of the subject.
c) 50% final exam composed of a theoretical part and a practical part.
The minimum grade of the exam to be able to calculate the weighted average is a 4. If a student does not obtain this minimum grade, he or she is suspended and may take the exam if the exam grade is higher than 3.5 and less than 4.
A student will receive the grade of NO assessable when they have not participated in at least 25% of the evaluation activities.
If the student obtains a grade, result of the indicated average, greater than or equal to 3.5 and less than 5, he/she may take the retake exam which, if passed, entitles him/her to a maximum grade equal to 5. If the retake exam is failed, the grade of the continuous evaluation is maintained.
Calendar of evaluation activities
The dates of the different assessment tests (classroom exercises, submission of assignments, etc.) will be announced well in advance during the semester.
The date of the final exam of the subject is scheduled in the Faculty's exam calendar.
"The scheduling of the evaluation tests may not be modified, unless there is an exceptional and duly justified reason why an evaluation act cannot be carried out. In this case, the persons responsible for the degrees, after consulting the teaching staff and the students concerned, will propose a new programme within the corresponding teaching period." Article 264(1). Calendar of evaluation activities. UAB Academic Regulations.
Students of the Faculty of Economics and Business who, in accordance with the previous paragraph, need to change an evaluation date must submit the request by filling in the document Application for rescheduling test https://eformularis.uab.cat/group/deganat_feie/nou-reprogramacio-de-proves
Qualification review procedure
Coinciding with the final exam, the day and medium on which the final grades will be published will be announced. In the same way, the procedure, place, date and time of the review of exams will be informed in accordance with the regulations of the University.
Recovery Process
"To participate in the recovery process, students must have previously been evaluated in a set of activities that represents a minimum of two thirds of the total grade of the subject or module." Article 261(2). The recovery. UAB Academic Regulations. Students must have obtained an average grade of the subject between 3.5 and 4.9.
The date of this test will be scheduled in the Faculty's exam calendar. The student who takes it and passes it will pass the subject with a grade of 5.0. Otherwise, it will maintain the same grade.
Irregularities in evaluation acts
Without prejudice to other disciplinary measures that are deemed appropriate, and in accordance with current academic regulations, "in the event that the student makes any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade of an evaluation act, this evaluation act will be graded with a 0, regardless of the disciplinary process that may be instructed. In the event that there are several irregularities in the evaluation acts of the same subject, the final grade of this subject will be 0". Article 266(10). Results of the evaluation. UAB Academic Regulations.
This subject does not provide for a single assessment.
Porter, M. E., Kramer, M. R., & Lorsch, J. W. (2009). Ser competitivo (pp. 624-624). Barcelona: Deusto.
Nueno, P. (1997). Reflotando la empresa: corporate turnaround. Deusto.
Richard, A., & Brealey, A. (2023). Principios de finanzas corporativas. McGraw-Hill Interamericana.
Fernández, P. (2005). Creación de valor para los accionistas: definición y cuantificación. UCJC Business and Society Review (formerly known as Universia Business Review), (6).
Rojo Ramírez, A. A. (2007). Valoración de empresas y gestión basada en valor. Ediciones Paraninfo, SA.
Equipo economistas DVE (2009), Cómo sanear una empresa. De Vecci Editorial
Documento de la AECA, El crecimiento de la Empresa
Pedrosa Negrete, F. (2016), El crecimiento de la Empresa. Articulo
Las operaciones corporativas - varios artículos y tratados
Excel
Please note that this information is provisional until 30 November 2025. You can check it through this link. To consult the language you will need to enter the CODE of the subject.
Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
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(PAUL) Classroom practices | 1 | Spanish | second semester | afternoon |
(TE) Theory | 1 | Spanish | second semester | afternoon |