Francesco CASARIN

Position
Full Professor
Telephone
041 234 8750
E-mail
casarin@unive.it
Fax
041 234 8701
Academic discipline
Management [ECON-07/A]
Website
https://www.unive.it/web/en/19197/people/casarin(personal record)
Office
Venice School of Management
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.management
Where: San Giobbe
Research Institute
Research Institute for Digital and Cultural Heritage

Office hours

Venice – San Giobbe - Venice School of Management – C1 building – first floor – room 125.
Next receptions hours:
- Tuesday 29 september,  15:00 - 17:00 
- Tuesday 6 october,  15:00 – 17:00 
- Tuesday 13 october, 15:00 - 17:00 
- Tuesday 20 october, 15:00 - 17:00
- Tuesday 27 october, 15.00 - 17.00
Venice - San Giobbe – Venice School of Management– C1 building – first floor – room 125. Booking is not required.
Please check if there are possible changes by clicking on “AVVISI”.
 

Notices

16/09/2026

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16/09/2026

Il docente propone n. 1 tesi di laurea magistrale su marketing del lusso, con case study su un'azienda del settore illuminotecnico della zona asolana.

Si richiede votazione media di partenza almeno 26/30.

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31/08/2026

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Teaching activity current year

ECONOMIA AZIENDALE [ET11]
Laurea

ECONOMIA AZIENDALE [ETR11]
Laurea

ECONOMIA E GESTIONE DELLE ARTI E DELLE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI [EMR3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

MARKETING MANAGEMENT [EMR7]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

Teaching activity previous years

ECONOMIA E GESTIONE DELLE ARTI E DELLE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI [EM3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

MARKETING E COMUNICAZIONE [EM7]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

ECONOMIA E GESTIONE DELLE ARTI E DELLE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI [EMR3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

MARKETING MANAGEMENT [EMR7]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

ECONOMIA AZIENDALE [ET11]
Laurea

ECONOMIA AZIENDALE [ETR11]
Laurea

ECONOMIA E GESTIONE DELLE ARTI E DELLE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI [EM3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

MARKETING E COMUNICAZIONE [EM7]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

ECONOMIA AZIENDALE [ET11]
Laurea

ECONOMIA E GESTIONE DELLE ARTI E DELLE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI [EM3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

MARKETING E COMUNICAZIONE [EM7]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

ECONOMIA AZIENDALE [ET11]
Laurea

ECONOMIA E GESTIONE DELLE ARTI E DELLE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI [EM3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

MARKETING E COMUNICAZIONE [EM7]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

ECONOMIA AZIENDALE [ET11]
Laurea

ECONOMIA E GESTIONE DELLE ARTI E DELLE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI [EM3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

MARKETING E COMUNICAZIONE [EM7]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

ECONOMIA AZIENDALE [ET11]
Laurea

Activities and research skills

Academic discipline
Economia e gestione delle imprese [ECON-07/A]
Settore Scientifico Disciplinare (SSD) affine
ORGANIZZAZIONE AZIENDALE [SECS-P/10]
Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
Internazionale: Europa
Known languages
francese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
inglese (scritto: intermedio parlato: intermedio)
Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
Mercati & Competitività (Rivista della Società Italiana di Marketing)
Participation as referees of national and international research projects
Università degli Studi di Milano
Main departmental research areas and fields
Area: Azienda Linea: Not-for-profit - Modelli e metodi
Area: Azienda Linea: Not-for-profit - politiche e gestione
Area: Azienda Linea: Settori industriali - politiche e gestione
Area: Azienda Linea: Sistema economico - risorse e strumenti
Area: Beni culturali Linea: Valorizzazione di beni culturali
Area: Discipline dello spettacolo Linea: Teatro
Area: Economia Linea: Settori industriali - politiche e gestione
Area: Economia Linea: Sistema economico - risorse e strumenti
Area: Filosofia e Scienze Sociali Linea: Ontologia
marketing
Description:
marketing
Keywords:
Economics, Communication sciences
marketing arte e cultura
Keywords:
Social sciences, Cultural studies
ATECO code:
[91] - attività di biblioteche, archivi, musei ed altre attività culturali
marketing del turismo
Keywords:
Economics
ATECO code:
[79] - attività dei servizi delle agenzie di viaggio, dei tour operator e servizi di prenotazione e attività connesse
Cultural products consumption
SSD:
SECS-P/08
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) and Balanced scorecard (BSC) to measure the performance of museums
SSD:
SECS-P/08
Other members of the research group:
Antonella BASSO
Stefania FUNARI
Empirical organizational learning in performing art enterprises
SSD:
SECS-P/08
Other members of the research group:
Monica CALCAGNO
Evolving towards a Service Dominant Logic
SSD:
SECS-P/08
Food & Beverage consumption behaviour
SSD:
SECS-P/08
Fruizione di performing arts e beneficio artistico, una nuova dimensione sociale?
SSD:
SECS-P/08
Other members of the research group:
Andrea PASTORE
Management e nuovo realismo: il marketing tra postmoderno e nuove ontologie
SSD:
M-FIL/02
Musei marittimi
SSD:
SECS-P/08
Other members of the research group:
Elena BELLIO
Umberto ROSIN
Omnivorous cultural consumption and the fruition of cultural products. The consumption of arts & culture and the research of the artistic benefit
SSD:
SPS/08
Trasformazione digitale dei musei
SSD:
SECS-P/08
Other members of the research group:
Elena BELLIO
Massimiliano NUCCIO
Turismo e cultura: innovazione e sostenibilità nell'offerta delle destinazioni
SSD:
SECS-P/08
eWOM of Museum Experiences: A Content Analysis on Museum Online Reviews
SSD:
SECS-P/08
24729_001473 “INDICE – INnovazioni Digitali per le Imprese Culturali e creativE”,
Funding body:
PR Veneto FESR 2021-2027 Azione 1.1.1 Sub A. DGR 729 del 26/06/2024
Type:
LR 1/2008 - Patrimonio storico artistico veneto nel Mediterraneo
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2025 Length in months: 24
Other members of the research group:
Massimiliano NUCCIO
ARCA ADRIATICA
Funding body:
EC
Type:
Interreg V Italia - Croazia
Role in the project:
PT
Starting date:
Year: 2019 Length in months: 36
Other members of the research group:
Carlo BELTRAME
Cultura e consumo
Funding body:
UE
Type:
LLP - Erasmus
Role in the project:
PT
Sito di progetto:
www.coberen.eu
Starting date:
Year: 2009 Length in months: 36
Il moderno imprenditore agricolo
Funding body:
Fondazione COIN - Fondazione Ca' Foscari
Type:
Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
Role in the project:
PT
Starting date:
Year: 2011 Length in months: 18
Other members of the research group:
Vladi FINOTTO
Christine MAURACHER

Publication highlights

Bonazzi, M., Cancellieri, G., Casarin, F. Omnivorous cultural consumption and the co-creation of cultural products: Interactive versus participatory art in JOURNAL OF CONSUMER CULTURE, vol. 24, pp. 24-44 (ISSN 1741-2900)
DOI 2023, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5021462


Casarin Francesco; Giannasi Matteo The return of reality: contemporary marketing beyond postmodernist antirealism in MICRO & MACRO MARKETING, vol. 2/2023, pp. 367-392 (ISSN 1121-4228)
DOI 2023, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5028380


Matteo Giannasi; Francesco Casarin Philosophy of Marketing. The New Realist Approach , Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge- Taylor & Francis, vol. 1, pp. 1-266 (ISBN 9781032072333)
2022, Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/3749823


Francesco Zanibellato, Umberto Rosin, Francesco Casarin How the Attributes of a Museum Experience Influence Electronic Word-of-Mouth Valence: an Analysis of Online Museum Reviews in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ARTS MANAGEMENT, vol. vol 21, pp. 76-90 (ISSN 1480-8986)
2018, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/3707804


Basso, Antonella; Casarin, Francesco; Funari, Stefania How well is the museum performing? A joint use of DEA and BSC to measure the performance of museums in OMEGA, vol. 81, pp. 67-84 (ISSN 0305-0483)
DOI - URL correlato 2018, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/3691804


List of publications

Curriculum vitae

Concise CV - English version

Born in Venice.
 
 
Academic Career:
 
November 2006 - current: Full Professor of Marketing, Department of Management, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy)
 
June 2005: winner of the competition for the Marketing Chair for the disciplinary group SECS-P/08 Economics and Business Management announced by the University of Verona (Italy)
 
November 2002 – October 2006: Associate Professor for the disciplinary group SECS-P/08 Economics and Business Management, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy)
 
November 1999 – October 2002: Associate Professor for the disciplinary group SECS-P/08 Economics and Business Management, University of Padua (Italy)
 
November 1991 – October 1999: Researcher for the disciplinary group SECS-P/08 Economics and Business Management, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy)
 
 
Teaching activities (current):
 
- Professor of Marketing, Department of Management, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

- Professor of Advanced Marketing for Arts & Culture, Department of Management, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

- Professor of International Marketing, Department of Management, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

- Professor of Retail & Channel Management, Department of Management, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
 
 
Membership:

- Member of the Scientific Committee of The International Association of Arts and Cultural Management (AIMAC) (2022 - current)

- Member of the International Association of Arts and Cultural Management (AIMAC) (2015 - current)

- Member of the Managerial Board of the Società Italiana di Marketing (SIM) (2012 - 2018)

- Member of the Società Italiana di Marketing (SIM) (2005-current)

- Member of Accademia Italiana di Economia Aziendale (AIDEA) (current)

- Member of European Marketing Academy (EMAC) (1996-1999, 2005)

- Member of the Managerial Board of the European research group Consumer Behaviour Erasmus Network (COBEREN) (2009-current)

- Member of the Management of Arts and Culture Laboratory (maclab), Department of Management, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2009-current)
 
 
Academic and institutional activities:

- Member of the Scientific Committee of The International Association of Arts and Cultural Management (AIMAC), the largest international network of researchers in arts and cultural management (2022 - current).

- Director of the Management of Arts and Culture Laboratory (maclab) (April 2021 - current)

- Member of the Board of Professors for the Masters’ programme “Marketing Management”, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2025 - current)

- Member of the Board of Professors for the Masters’ programme “Innovation and Management for Culture and Creativity”, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2025 - current)

- Dean of the Board of Professors for the Masters’ programme “Economics and Management of Arts and Cultural Activities”, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (October 2017 – September 2020)

- Vice-Dean of the School of Production and Conservation of Cultural Heritage, Ca’ Foscari (2015-2017)

- Chair of Organizing Committee, AIMAC International Conference, Venice 23-26 June 2019

- Member of the Scientific Committee of the Accademia Italiana di Economia Aziendale AIDEA National Congress (2015)

- Member of Scientific Committee of Ca’ Foscari EXPO 2015

- Dean of the Board of Professors for the Masters’ programme “Marketing & Comunicazione”, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (November 2009 – September 2014)

- Appointed External Examiner at Oxford Brookes University (United Kingdom) (May 2009 – March 2014).

- Co-editor of “Mercati & Competitività”, the official academic Journal of the Italian Marketing Society (2009 - 2015).

- Director of the International Masters’ programme in “Management of Cultural and Artistic Activities” Ca’Foscari-ESCP Europe (specialized masters’ programme after BAC + 5) (2007 - 2017; 2023- current). Scientific Director (2018 - 2022).

- Member of the Scientific Committee of the MS Arts and Cultural Management of the Burgundy School of Business (September 2017 – current)

- Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Master in Business Studies, Université de la Savoie – Annecy (France) (2009 - 2018).

- Module leader of the course “Tourism Marketing”, CISET Masters’ programme in Tourism Economics & Management (1993 - current).

- Teacher in courses of Inter-Universities Doctoral School in History of Arts (PhD)

- Member of the Organizing Committee of the International Congress Venice-Paris “Marketing Trends” (2000-2008). 

- Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Congress Venice-Paris “Marketing Trends” (2000-2010).

- Member of the Board of Professors for the Degree programme Economia Aziendale – Economics and Management, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2008 - 2015).

- Participant to the Scientific Committee of PhD Business Economics and Management Program, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2004-2006).

- Participant to the Scientific Committee of PhD Business Economics and Management Program, University of Udine (Italy) (2000-2003).

- Teacher in the courses of PhD Business Economics and Management Program, University of Padua (2000-2003)  

- Teacher in the ESCP-EAP European School of Management, then ESCP Europe, courses (since 1996).

- Participation to national research programs on Tourism System, CNR: Strategic project on “Tourism and Economic Development”.

- Member of the Managerial Board of the COBEREN (Consumer Behaviour Erasmus Network), ref. N. 156089-LLP-1-2009-1-ES-ERASMUS-ENWA, Lifelong Learning Programme supported by EU (October 2009 - December 2012).

- Elected as chief member for the Venice office of Accademia Italiana di Economia Aziendale AIDEA (April 2011 – November 2016).
 
 
Research interests:

Marketing perspectives and the philosophical current of the New Realism

The theoretical evolution of marketing guidelines: the Contemporary Marketing Practices approach

The marketing of cultural products

Communication of cultural products

The behavior of use of cultural products

Marketing networks

The specificities of marketing applied to the players operating in the tourism system, with particular reference to the sectors of hospitality products, organized trips, tourist attractions

Marketing and demographics: the issues of senior demand

The analysis of the relationship between marketing and new information technologies

The evolution of forms of distribution in the context of European trade.

His research activity concerns mainly services marketing theory, some applications of marketing to cultural products and tourism products, retail marketing. Now he focuses on Arts & Culture Marketing and Communication, Tourism Marketing, Contemporary Marketing Practices, Retail Marketing, Consumer Behaviour.

He is the author of 10 books and many international and national articles about marketing subjects.

 

Address

Prof. Francesco Casarin
Dipartimento di Management, San Giobbe, Cannaregio 873, 30121 Venezia, Italy

tel. +39-041-2348750

email: casarin@unive.it

 
Venezia, Italy, August 2025