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Title Case Studies in Cultural Entrepreneurship : How to Create Relevant and Sustainable Institutions / edited by Gretchen Sullivan Sorin and Lynne A. Sessions
Published Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 102 pages)
Series American Association for State and Local History book series
American Association for State and Local History book series.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Museums -- United States -- Management -- Case studies
Museums -- Canada -- Management -- Case studies
Cultural property -- United States -- Management -- Case studies
Cultural property -- Canada -- Management -- Case studies
Entrepreneurship -- United States -- Case studies
Entrepreneurship -- Canada -- Case studies
Sustainability -- United States -- Case studies
Sustainability -- Canada -- Case studies
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Museum Administration & Museology.
REFERENCE -- General.
TRAVEL -- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
Entrepreneurship
Museums -- Management
Sustainability
Musées -- États-Unis -- Gestion -- Études de cas.
Musées -- Canada -- Gestion -- Études de cas.
Patrimoine culturel -- États-Unis -- Gestion -- Études de cas.
Patrimoine culturel -- Canada -- Gestion -- Études de cas.
Entrepreneurs (économie politique) -- États-Unis -- Gestion -- Études de cas.
Entrepreneurs (économie politique) -- Canada -- Gestion -- Études de cas.
Canada
United States
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Sorin, Gretchen Sullivan, editor
Sessions, Lynne A., 1955- editor.
LC no. 2021676804
ISBN 9781442230095
1442230096
9781442230095