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Professor Luca ZAN
University of Bologna
Italy

Arts organisations, exhibitions centres, galleries, museums, and performing art institutions have increasingly been put under pressure in the name of improved business efficiency and customer satisfaction in recent years. Privatisation, ‘companisation’ and managerialisation processes are often suggested as the solution for the survival of similar entities. However management and economic views tend to a large extent to assume the character of a self-referential, arbitrary and even colonialist imposition of economic theory and management rhetoric on professional contexts and disciplines which fail to be understood at the managerial and political levels. Serious conflicts between arts professionals and management experts are perceived all over Europe, in both the performing arts and the visual art world, though in different forms.

Following the first workshop in London, January 2001, the aim of the workshop is to provide a forum for a fresh debate and dialogue between conflicting views between these two worlds, trying to understand better the logic, patterns and possible consequences of the variety of changes occurring in the management practices currently being adopted for arts organisations. In this sense the International Workshop is directed not just to management scholars and experts, but to all types of cultural professionals involved in the processes of creating and presenting the arts and broadened cultural services, as well as managing their organisations. Indeed, co-authored papers bringing together specialisms will be especially welcome.

A Degree Program in
“MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURAL AND ARTS ORGANIZATIONS”
University of Bologna

Please click HERE to download the workshop preliminary programme.

The Workshop is organised on the basis of a call for papers, coupled with keynote addresses by invited speakers. The following are some suggestions for possible topics to be discussed, without setting any limitation as to potential themes and perspectives:

• Organisational innovation: governance structures, operating mechanisms and social processes.
• Professional identity and conflicts between professional groups within the introduction of managerial rhetoric and approaches.
• Product Quality and Economic Viability: professional and managerial standards.
• The process of social construction of notions of efficiency and effectiveness in art organisations
• Profitability, self-financing, autonomy, or simply accountability: the problematic application of common managerial concepts to arts non-profit organisations.
• Human resource management in a new institutional context: threats, fears and opportunities.
• Privatisation, outsourcing, re-organisation beyond ideologies.
• Partnerships between institutions, local and international – and their management. In reality, who leads?
• Marketing orientation and the aesthetic point of view.
• Value creation in the art and creative industry.
• New trends in the sociology of cultural consumption: the 'Experience Economy', excess capacity and market saturation.
• The Role of the Arts in more broadly-based Economic Development and Renewal.
• Externalities, aggregate cost/benefit logic, and the managerial conduct of the individual organisation.
• The difficult triangulation: Professionals, Arts Policies and Management discourses.
• Pitfalls and degenerative impacts of the introduction of managerial and economic view for the survival of arts organisations.
  

The submission deadline is over.

LOCATION :

The workshop will take place on the premises of the
Università di Bologna
Facoltà di Economia
Piazza Scaravilli 2 - 40126 Bologna

ACCOMMODATION :

Here are some hotels suggested. These hotels are located in the university surroundings.
You are requested to contact them directly to make your reservation.
It is advised to book your room as SOON as possible.

Hotel Regina*** ( recommended)
Via Indipendenza 51
Tel 051 248878; fax 051 247986
www.zanhotel.it

Hotel University *** ( recommended)
Via Mentana 7
Tel 051 2299713; fax 051 229713
www.hotel-university.com

Hotel Accademia *** ( recommended)
Via delle Belle Arti 6
Tel 051 232318; fax 051 263590

Hotel Holiday ***
Via Bertiera 13
Tel 051 235326; fax 051 235326
www.hotelholiday-bo.com

Il Canale ***
Via Bertiera 2
Tel 051 222098; fax 051 230039
www.zanhotel.it/ilcanale

Orologio ***1/2
Via IV Novembre 10
Tel 051 231253; fax 051 260552
www.bolognahotel.net

Hotel Novecento ****
Piazza Gallilei
Tel 051 7457311; fax 051 7457322
www.bolognahotel.net

Hotel Commercianti ****
Via De' Pignattari 11
Tel 051 233051; Fax 051 224733
www.bolognahotel.net

Cancellations made before December 1, 2004 will be reimbursed minus 20% of the total fee. No reimbursement will be possible after that date.

Payments should be made by :

• Transfer into the EIASM bank account: 424-5533281-33 - (IBAN: BE79 4245 5332 8133) with the KBC bank, Arenberg Horta, Arenbergstraat 11, 1000 Brussels, Belgium, BIC/SWIFT-address: KREDBEBB. (In case of bank charges, they should be paid by the payor)
• The following credit cards: Visa or Eurocard/Mastercard/Access

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