Luca ZAN

Position
Adjunct Professor
E-mail
luca.zan@unive.it
Website
https://www.unive.it/people/luca.zan (personal record)
Office
Venice School of Management
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.management
Where: San Giobbe

Office hours

Venice San Giobbe Venice School of Management

Teaching activity current year

ECONOMIA AZIENDALE [ETR11]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

Teaching activity previous years

ECONOMIA AZIENDALE [ETR11]
Bachelor's Degree Programme

Activities and research skills

Publication highlights

Zan L.; Tanghetti J. Challenging relationality and participation. The Austrian pavilion at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale 2023 in PUBLIC MONEY & MANAGEMENT, vol. online first, pp. 1-13 (ISSN 1467-9302)
DOI - URL correlato 2026, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5125430


Luca Zan Cultural heritage and identity building in current China: Stateholder creativity and administrative legacy , The Heritage, Creativity and Innovation Nexus, Abingdon, Routeldge, pp. 146-161 (ISBN 9781032654942)
DOI - URL correlato 2026, Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5125503


Zan L; Ferri P.; Baskakova E. Bridging management, organisational and accounting history with the industrial heritage debate in ACCOUNTING HISTORY, vol. 30, pp. 239-264 (ISSN 1032-3732)
DOI - URL correlato 2025, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5125489


Luca Zan; Roberta Ferrarini La gestione di Venezia come sito UNESCO in ECONOMIA DELLA CULTURA, vol. 3, pp. 551-565 (ISSN 1122-7885)
DOI 2025, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5125496


Paolo Ferri; Simone Napolitano; Luca Zan Organizing abundance and shuffling at festivals: the Ferrara Buskers Festival case in POETICS, vol. 110, pp. 1-13 (ISSN 0304-422X)
DOI - URL correlato 2025, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5125428


List of publications

Curriculum vitae

Alma Mater Professor, University of Bologna. Past Director of GIOCA (Graduate degree in Innovation and Organization of Cultural and the Arts), University of Bologna, where he taught "Ethnography of arts organizations", and teaches "Heritage, history and the issue of organizing". Adjunct faculty at the Heinz College until 2020, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, where he taught “International Perspectives in Arts Management” within the Master of Arts Management Program; and at CAFA, Beijing, teaching “Management and arts organizations”.

 

Research interests and publications:

  • Management and accounting history, both in terms of theories, and practices (especially in pre-industrial settings, such the Venice Arsenal 16th century), with an increasing focus on industrial heritage.
  • Management of heritage and arts organizations, with a focus on field research, an international comparison.
  • A specific focus on the management of arts and heritage in the city of Venice.
  • The management of Cultural Heritage in China.
  • Strategic change processes, within strategic management, management accounting and organization theory traditions.

 

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