Managerial Rhetoric and Arts Organizations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Arts Organizations between Uses and Abuses of Managerial Rhetoric

   • Luca Zan

   Pages 1-29

3. Management and the British Museum: Competing Rhetorics and Identities

   • Luca Zan

   Pages 30-74

4. Management Control and Managerial Rhetoric in Italian Public Sector Cultural Institutions

   • Luca Zan

   Pages 75-93

5. Managerialization of Cultural Organizations and Institutional Settings: the Transformation into Foundations and Managerial Rhetoric

   • Luca Zan

   Pages 94-114

6. Reporting on Performance: the Development of Venetian Municipal Museums in the 1990s

   • Luca Zan

   Pages 115-156

7. Back Matter

   Pages 157-173

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The arts have faced big changes in recent years. This book explores the changes driven by the crisis of the welfare state and the privatization of public entities. It considers the tensions between managerial rhetoric and professional practices and questions the extension of managerial rhetoric for the very survival of arts organizations.

• management
• Manager
• organization
• organizations
• rhetoric

• University of Bologna, Italy

  Luca Zan

LUCA ZAN is a Professor of Management and Director of the postgraduate programme on Management and Innovation of Cultural and Arts Organizations at the University of Bologna, Italy. He also runs a course on Managerial Rhetoric and Arts Organizations at MAM, Carnegie Melon University, Pittsburgh, USA. He has many years of experience in the management field, and specifically in arts management in Italy. With several articles published in international journals, Professor Zan's research interests cover strategic management, management of arts organizations, and management and accounting history.

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