Advanced Cultural Districts: Innovative Approaches to Organizational Designs [Hardcover]

Advanced Cultural Districts explores the organisational design issues within the cultural heritage sector, with particular focus on the advanced forms of cultural districts for local socio-economic development.

1. Industrial, Cultural and Advanced Cultural Districts
1.1. From Industrial Districts to Cultural Districts
1.2. Different Types of Cultural Districts
1.3. The Advanced Cultural District
1.4. The book
2. The Challenge for Territorial Development
2.1. International experiences
2.2. The Italian Way: Six Cultural Districts for Territorial Development
2.3. The Valtellina Cultural District: the Tension Between ' 'Design ' ' and ' 'Designing ' ' Approaches
2.4. The Tuscan Mining Geopark and the Iterative Process of Development
3. The Territory as a Reference Key
3.1. The Territory as a Context of Analysis and Designing
3.2. The Role of Tangible and Intangible Resources
3.3. The Duality of an (Advanced) Cultural District: Systems of Rules and Structuration
4. From Straight Lines to Spirals
4.1. A Model for Analysis and Designing
4.2. Concepts and Tools for Analysis and Designin
4.3. Final Remarks
References
Index

Alberto Francesconi, is Assistant Professor of Business Organization and MIS at University of Pavia, Italy. He collaborates in research projects on New Ventures' growth, Organizational Design, HR and Change Management in organizations and local systems.