This paper investigates the influence of information and communication technologies (ICT)
on the efficiency in attracting visitors of Italian museums. Notwithstanding the extensive …

Museums are important cultural institutions having the mission of conserving, interpreting,
researching and displaying heritage. The evaluation of their efficiency has been extensively …

Purpose Managerialization–ie the institutional and organizational transformation of cultural
institutions acknowledging the need for a managerial action to address their value …

In this paper we investigate whether the services offered by museums are affected by the
choices of neighbors, and we discuss whether the evidence can document that competition …

Economists have paid an increasing attention to the estimation of efficiency in the public
sector. Archives constitute an exception notwithstanding their cultural and historical …

We study the economic effects of a reform of the national museum sector, the so-called
Franceschini Reform, implemented in 2015. The reform introduced a new organization of the …

The debate on agencification in the public sector has traditionally overlooked the influence
of space on how autonomy unfolds in practice. Starting with the contention that organizing …

Community participation is increasingly advocated as a promising approach to cultural
heritage management. One of the main justifications for doing so is to challenge the …

This paper deals with the analysis of the impact of the autonomy of museums founded by
municipalities in the Czech Republic on selected performance areas. On a sample of 180 …

The chapter analyses the influence that managerial autonomy may play in the role of human
resources in cultural organisations. Based on the Old Institutional Economics approach and …