Research on entrepreneurship in family firms has grown exponentially over the past two decades. Due to the various theoretical perspectives and contexts found here however, this body of research remains fragmented, with a unified understanding of the current state of knowledge and the...

Steht die als frei und unabhängig angenommene Kunst und Kulturarbeit im Widerspruch zu ihrer bürokratisch und an Sachzwängen orientierten Finanzierung? Das Diskussionspapier prüft diese These auf der Grundlage von anonymisierten Gruppengesprächen mit den Akteur:innen aus zwei Kunstvereinen....

A few decades ago, a field of research called cultural studies suddenly experienced a surge of interest. Why? There are many reasons why it is worth taking a closer look. At first glance, you might think it was simply a fad at the time. Fashions are an omnipresent phenomenon in science, as in...

Community-based tourism (CBT) is a viable alternative to promoting sustainable rural development. In the same vein, sustainable rural development is possible by reinforcing the priority of local policies and increasing the involvement of local communities in the development process to achieve...

This essay uncovers the evolving paradigm of communication for development, then with a focus on the strategic engagement of celebrity influence. Contextualised against the historical dominance of the Euro-Americentric modernisation discourse and with the multi-step communication framework, it...

I struggle with a simple question, but one that may have liberating implications. The question is: How has African music been a nearly 'imperialistic' force on the global scale whereas African non-music goods and services, besides raw materials and slaves, have had limiting effects? The answer...

When a decaying industrial city in Spain’s Basque country decided in the 1990s to spend $228.3 million on a modern art museum, critics objected to squandering so much public money on something so irrelevant and exclusive. This year is the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao’s (GMB) tenth anniversary,...

In this paper we analyze the production process of the performing arts (opera, dance and drama) and its relationship with the General Theory of Cost. In a first analysis refers to the Economy of Culture as a new discipline, as well as major contributions of the same. Subsequently conducted a...

This article discusses the evolution of both the techniques of museum management, as the concept of collection. It has made a historical view of museums in the Christian era and the art market. It begins with analysis of museum as a guardian of treasures, since the Middle Ages, the collections...

ABSTRACT The Museums since institution has been boarded from diverse disciplines. The Economy, or more indeed the Economy Applied to the Culture has made of the museums objects susceptible to be studied with the instruments of the economic analysis, giving rise to the appearance of a denominated...