Business Economics: the unity of the disciplines detection, management, organization

"The science that studies the conditions of existence as well as manifestations of corporate life, the science of economic supervision companies, in other words, business management is our science."

From G. Zappa New Trends in the Studies of Accounting 1927. The ordering of the renewal of economics together with office studies are drawn from him in this historic inaugural address, submitted in 1926, on the occasion of the inauguration of the academic year at the University Ca 'Foscari of Venice, and published the coming after or as a or done as a reaction to a question of. year, in 1927. This speech marks the official start of the contemporary teaching of business economics “economia aziendale” in Italian Universities.

With this work, Zappa provided the following challenge: to work a "unified science” of "vast content" "to compose a whole, broadly ordered for principles, the study of economics by company in its group and complex manifestations" Zappa 1956, p. 3. G. Zappa proposed a more integrated approach in Italy: scholars of public accounting, management and agency are called to broaden their horizons and to pretend on complementary research. More specifically Zappa proposed to unify legal forms, Corporate governance, organizational studies and business economic analysis see Investment analysis in one coherent and unified subject. This vision can be opposed to dominant belief of economic profession at the time see microeconomics which tended to see business as “black-boxes” not worrying in describing its internal modes of operation.

Modern Italian universities commonly advertising both courses of business economics as above defined as well standard course in microeconomics to their undergraduate students.