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Case studies in cultural entrepreneurship : how to create relevant and sustainable institutions / edited by Gretchen Sullivan Sorin and Lynne A. Sessions.

Van Pelt Library AM11 .C37 2015
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Sorin, Gretchen Sullivan, editor.
Sessions, Lynne A., 1955- editor.
Series:
American Association for State and Local History book series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Museums--United States--Management--Case studies.
Museums.
Museums--Canada--Management--Case studies.
Cultural property--United States--Management--Case studies.
Cultural property.
Cultural property--Canada--Management--Case studies.
Entrepreneurship--United States--Case studies.
Entrepreneurship.
Management.
United States.
Canada.
Entrepreneurship--Canada--Case studies.
Sustainability--United States--Case studies.
Sustainability.
Sustainability--Canada--Case studies.
Genre:
Case studies.
Physical Description:
xv, 102 pages ; 23 cm.
Place of Publication:
Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
Summary:
"Case Studies in Cultural Entrepreneurship offers highly focused case studies that demonstrate the critical role entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial thinking play in reinventing cultural organizations. The reader has access to the full complexity of the situation facing these leaders. Historical background, choices, actors, external and internal forces, decision points, and results are detailed and examined in a way that is highly readable, approachable and accessible to a wide audience of professionals working in the museum field or with other cultural organizations"--Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Preface / Gretchen Sullivan Sorin and Lynne A. Sessions
Centre d'histoire de Montreal : a museum finds its audience-focused niche / Gretchen Sullivan Sorin
The Weeksville Heritage Center / Pamela Green
Becoming the Capital region's living room : Philip Morris and Proctors Theater / Nicholas DeMarco
America's river : the reinvention of the Mississippi River Museum / Jerome Enzler
The great transformation at the Strong / Amy Hollister Zarlengo
Cultural entrepreneurship : case discussion and conclusions / Lynne A. Sessions.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781442230071
144223007X
9781442230088
1442230088
OCLC:
896601227

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