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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.
- Format:
- Book
- 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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