Business Studies Center (CSA)

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The Business Studies Center (CSA) of the University of Milano Bicocca is a university research center established at the Department of Economics and Business Sciences and Law for Economics which aims to be a place and a space within which the community scientific can carry out research and higher education projects, also from an interdisciplinary and international perspective.

The Center aims to contribute to the analysis of the complex economic, social and cultural phenomenology in an economic-business perspective with particular attention to the dynamics that at the international level involve the thematic areas of accounting, management, valuations, corporate governance, sustainability, entrepreneurship, and corporate strategies. The Center carries out research activities in its thematic areas, promoting training, disseminating scientific results, and participating in the debate on public choices in an interdisciplinary and applied perspective. Added to this are the high-level training initiatives, including executive ones, aimed at public and private actors.

The Center intends to represent a place to produce ideas and contamination. The Center aims to increase the creation of knowledge, favoring its circulation, dissemination, and enhancement in compliance with the values ​​that distinguish business economics: "The field of study of our discipline thus appears marked by the economic system established and governed given the purpose that the corporate subject proposes; system that is part of the economic-social system, for which it will, in any case, inform its purpose. (...) The components of the system are economic forces and that is personal energies, material economic means, immaterial economic factors. The system must be considered in its motion (...). " (A. Amaduzzi, 1948).

The Business Studies Center is engaged in conducting numerous research projects and intense editorial activity through a special series currently published by Giuffrè and in the coming future by Giappichelli.