ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT OF CULTURAL COMPANIES
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2021/2022
- Teacher
- MASSIMILIANO MAZZANTI
- Credits
- 12
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- SECS-P/07
Training objectives
- The course trains diversified skills in the economic area (culture management, cultural policies, economic evaluation of public goods), with inter-disciplinary meanings, especially in relation to urban and regional planning of cultural interventions.
Prerequisites
- basic elements of economic thinking. A refresh of issues and concepts will be offered in the course as well.
Course programme
- Part I - Cultural policies in Italy and the financing of culture: from the 1980s to the current situation
Part II - Economy and culture management, cultural companies: from museums to the territory
Management in cultural organizations: the basic principles and decisional implications
- Evolution of regulatory aspects and implications for cultural companies in the public sector: main actors
- Museums evolution and management implications.
- Governance in the cultural system: theory and cases
- Management control systems in cultural companies: concepts and applications
Part III - The cities and the territory. The economics of culture in an urban economics and planning perspective
Part IV - The economic evaluation of culture and public goods: use and non-use values, fruition and conservation
LABORATORY MODULE
Urban creativity 1: Experiences of local development and territorial attractiveness: from the recovery of the Covered Market to the reopening of the Verdi Theater. (3 hours)
Urban creativity 2: Experiences of local development and territorial attractiveness: from the recovery of the former Fire Brigade Barracks to the Ricrea Festival. (3 hours)
Environment and development: The VenTo Project, the cycle path on the banks of the Po Didactic methods
- Lectures, analysis of case studies in the classroom
Learning assessment procedures
- written and oral examinations, essays preparation
Reference texts
- Causi M (2018), Economia della cultura
e delle industrie culturali
e creative, Edizioni Pigreco
