ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT OF CULTURAL PRODUCTIONS

The course is rooted in the Bachelor's Degree Programme in Conservation of Cultural Heritage and Performing Arts Management, offering a managerial perspective to the analysis of the whole system of cultural productions focusing on their processes. The object of analysis includes both nonprofit and profit organizations operating in traditional cultural sectors and in creative industries.

The course will offer the students the following set of knowledge and competences:
- Understanding of specific dimensions affecting the cultural and creative industries
- Understanding and process-based analysis of organizations
- Knowledge and adoption of conceptual tools to analyse in a management perspective different types of organisation, with a special focus on organisations operating in the arts and culture
- Competences to identify and manage critical processes in the context of cultural and creative organizations

no prerequisites are required for the course

Introductive concepts
- Firm, cultural products, value
- Competitive advantage, resources and competences

Innovation in contexts of cultural production
- Business model innovation in cultural sectors
- Open innovation methods for culture

Design and management decisions in a context of value production
- Operations
- Strategic decisions and organizational change

Organizational forms for cultural resources
- Organizational structures, strategic alliances, and alternative forms
- Organizational identity and legitimacy

• Lorenzoni G., Dalla catena del valore al sistema delle attività [Chapters 1 & 8], in A. Lipparini (a cura di) Economia e gestione delle imprese, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2007.
• Rispoli M. e Brunetti G, Economia e Management delle aziende di produzione culturale, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2009 [Chapters, 1 & 8]
• Additional materials on Moodle (slide, papers, and other materials will be updated on a weekly basis)

Texts will be updated with new materials before the course

The exam is organised as a written test, and it is composed by:
- 5 multiple choice questions
- 2 open questions that are aimed to leave space for critical reflections and personal elaborations.

Participation in the optional team-work may give students the chance to obtain 1 to 3 extra points to be added to the written exam evaluation.

written

A. scores in the 18-23 range will be awarded in the presence of:
- sufficient knowledge and ability to understand applied in relation to the programme;
- sufficient ability to apply knowledge and understanding and judgment;
- sufficient communication skills, especially in relation to the use of specific language relating to the subject;
B. scores in the 24-27 range will be awarded in the presence of:
- good knowledge and ability to understand applied in relation to the programme;
- good ability to apply knowledge and understanding and judgement;
- good communication skills, especially in relation to the use of specific language relating to the subject;
C. scores in the 28-30 (cum laude) range will be awarded in the presence of:
- excellent knowledge and ability to understand applied in relation to the programme;
- excellent ability to apply knowledge and understanding and judgment;
- excellent communication skills, especially in relation to the use of specific language relating to the subject.

This course is organised as a conventional teaching class with:
- lectures
- team work

Lectures will be in presence, in coherence with safety rules

Accessibility, Disability and Inclusion
Accommodation and support services for students with disabilities and students with specific learning impairments

Ca’ Foscari abides by Italian Law (Law 17/1999; Law 170/2010) regarding support
services and accommodation available to students with disabilities. This includes students with
mobility, visual, hearing and other disabilities (Law 17/1999), and specific learning impairments (Law 170/2010). If you have a disability or impairment that requires accommodations (i.e., alternate testing, readers, note takers or interpreters) please contact the Disability and Accessibility Offices in Student Services: disabilita@unive.it.

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Circular economy, innovation, work" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development