The paper investigates change processes regarding the managerial aspects of organizing Cultural Heritage activities in China. The focus is not on the historical and artistic meanings of archeological discoveries in themselves; nor on the technical, scientific, and methodological repercussions of...

Machu Picchu is among the world's most controversial heritage sites. It represents a case where raising money through ticket sales and other activities, rather than an opportunity to fund site preservation, in fact constitutes a major threat to the survival of the site through overexploitation....

The authors develop a longitudinal case study on 100 years of administrative history of the International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza, Italy (MIC). The case history is based on an archive analysis of the minutes, reports, and financial accounts of the meetings of the Museum’s Board of...

Building on the literature on managerial reforms in public sector and cultural heritage, this paper aims at exploring, understanding, and reconstructing managerial change at the organizational level. The institutional transformation of the cultural sector in Malta - driven by a call for...

The extension of an economic and managerial discourse to non-business organisations is becoming increasingly common in the modern-day world. This is also true of arts organisations (museums, opera houses, etc.) where considerable conflicts and misunderstandings can be found between the different...

This paper focuses on the need for critical reflection on the theoretical/methodological characterization of that broad area of research referred to here as strategy studies. The aim is to point out some of the features of this field that distinguish it from other scientific ambits (in...

In September 1997 a regulation (law No. 352/1997) gave to Pompeii a new status: from its previous standing as a local branch of the Ministry of Culture (the Soprintendenza) it was configured as an autonomous entity (Soprintendenza autonoma). In July 2008, the Italian Prime Minister declared a...

History of management and stratigraphy of organizing / Luca Zan -- From manufacturing to industry: the turn in the late 19th century / Pasquale Ventrice -- The recovery of the Arsenal: the process from 1980 until today / Claudio Menichelli -- The role of the Agenzia del Demanio (State Property...

The authors have studied the site of the Historical Sanctuary of Machu Picchu (HSM) over the last decade from an organizational/managerial point of view, based on field research and documents analysis. What follows is a sort of a virtual appendix of the article “Managing Machu Picchu:...