Business creation and entrepreneurship observatories, institutional framework and business creation, social capital and opportunity discovery. Incorporation of companies: statutory design of commercial companies. Determinants of innovation: tangible resources, intangible resources, diversification, internationalisation, cooperation, sectoral factors, public incentives for innovation. Relationship of innovation with other economic factors: quality management, corporate governance, corporate restructuring, social networks. Sources of information for innovation, methods of innovation generation, appropriability of results, product innovation, process innovation, radical innovation, incremental innovation, innovation patterns, open innovation. Innovation management: technology policies (additionality and substitution effects of R&D subsidies), recruitment of PhDs and knowledge transfer, social capital and innovation, absorptive capacity, development of innovations in cooperation with users, innovations in BOP. Company creation and entrepreneurial innovation. Analysis of human capital in quality strategies. Human capital management models. Development of organisational behaviour assessment tools. Analysis of ETT employees.

Governance of the family business, succession process in the family business, financial decisions of the family business (investment, financing and dividends), family business valuation systems. Effects of family control on the accumulation of funds. Family control and life cycle. Family control and political connections. Family business protocols. Taxation of the family business. Analysis of the interactions of the internationalisation strategy and innovation of family businesses with the characteristics, capabilities and resources of the entrepreneur. Background and results of restructuring and downsizing decisions in family businesses.

Strategic plans, competitive strategy, strategic alignment. Diversification strategies, business internationalisation, vertical integration. Changes in the business portfolio, organisational changes, mass redundancies, downsizing, job cuts. Financial strategy. Investment decisions, capital structure, dividend policy. Company valuation. Business concentration. Business crisis management: business failure, reorganisation, insolvency, labour and tax aspects. Determinants and effects of strategic change in SMEs. Organisational design: motivation, coordination, leadership. Analysis of the impact of human capital management on organisational performance. Development of instruments for auditing human capital. Analysis of organisational behaviour.

Purchasing and Procurement Management, Production Management Systems, Logistics. Trade credit policy, working capital management, SME financial management, SME financial capability. Contribution of business management support technologies, technological solutions for customer relationship management (CRM).

Econometric models of market response and consumer behaviour, role of market orientation, entrepreneurial orientation and innovative orientation in business performance, Background and consequences of environmental management. Environmental Marketing and Management Strategies for Bio-Business. Market and consumer behaviour, strategies and procedures for point-of-sale location; consumer loyalty to brands and retailers; category management at the point of sale; private labels. Merchandising linked to points of sale. Commercial distribution. Electronic markets. Tourism services market. Capital markets. Market efficiency. Asset pricing.

Economic theory, predictability of financial series, risk management, experimental economics. Effect of the environment on the organisational decisions of the company, determinants of business behaviour. Decision theory, (preferences, orders, optimisation), in theoretical aspects, and in its application to economic and political decisions. Intergenerational justice, modelling of economic agents' decisions (with and without certainty), mathematical utility theory, measurement of consensus in agents' preferences. General equilibrium, game theory.

Boards of Directors. Ownership structure, internal mechanisms for corporate governance, effect of the legal system on financial decisions and corporate governance, effect of the orientation of the financial system (market or banking) on financial decisions and corporate governance, effect of the corporate governance system on corporate R&D decisions. Corporate Social Responsibility: board structure and socially responsible behaviour, CSR practices in multinational companies, management profile and CSR, stakeholder analysis, social innovation. Corporate Social Responsibility and Economic Efficiency Environmental Management. Social capital, modifications and legal repercussions in the company. Corporate bodies: functioning. Responsibility of directors. Structural modifications.