Management, Participation and Entrepreneurship in the Cultural and Creative Sector (eBook)

This book elucidates and maps the societal impact of experience and heritage, participation, and entrepreneurship in the cultural sector. The contributions address and explore the relevance of culture, cultural entities, and heritage as collective memories and reservoirs of experience for other social systems, change and societal innovators like entrepreneurs. Insofar, cultural activities can be understood as a bridge between past experiences and future challenges. The first key focus is the participation of people in various contexts, initiatives, and projects. Such participation unleashes creativity and connects different societal layers - culture, economy, and innovation. Accordingly, a second focus is the entrepreneurial efforts and ideas that originate within arts and culture. 

Martin Piber is a Professor at the Department of Organisation and Learning and the Scientific Director of the executive MBA-program of the University of Innsbruck (Austria). He teaches at several regular and extended education programs at all study levels in many countries. His work features the relevance of art and culture for society, participatory processes, the practice and theory of management control and performance measurement, the management of cultural organizations, aesthetics and business ethics. His most recent research deals with the impact and the management of European Capitals of Culture as well as inter- and transdisciplinary views on participatory processes.