Management of Cultural Organization: The Specific Case of Museums.

Rausell-Köster, Pau Asuaga, Carolina

Museums as an institution have been approached from various disciplines. Economics, or more precisely the Economy Applied to Culture, has made museums susceptible to study using the instruments of economic analysis, leading to the emergence of an area called the Economics of Museums. However, the Management Account has shown no greater interest in the Museum as a subject of study, even when the notion of museum as a guardian of public heritage passed to the conception of the museum as a business, with highly commercial products and with a focus more on the visitor than on collections. This article aims to present some peculiarities of museum management, especially those arising from the...

Museums as an institution have been approached from various disciplines. Economics, or more precisely the Economy Applied to Culture, has made museums susceptible to study using the instruments of economic analysis, leading to the emergence of an area called the Economics of Museums. However, the Management Account has shown no greater interest in the Museum as a subject of study, even when the notion of museum as a guardian of public heritage passed to the conception of the museum as a business, with highly commercial products and with a focus more on the visitor than on collections. This article aims to present some peculiarities of museum management, especially those arising from the definition of the museum mission and the conflict of interests surrounding the various agents involved, whether the state as a provider of funds, the community, the visitor, the directors, in addition to those contributing to the process of value creation in the art market such as artists, gallerists, collectors, critics, curators and other experts. It concludes that the design and implementation of management control tools, consistent with each institution and consolidating the different perspectives of all the actors involved, will provide the institution that creates it, a fundamental tool for monitoring its management and achieving its objectives.

Vol. IV, No. 8, pp 83-104

Cultural sectors as a strategy for territorial development in the Valencian central regions.

Rausell-Köster, Pau Carrasco Arroyo, Salvador Marco Serrano, Francisco Tomàs Miñana, Josep Fombuena i Borràs, Enric

ELS SECTORS CULTURALS COM ESTRATÈGIA DE DESENVOLUPAMENT TERRITORIAL A LES COMARQUES CENTRALS VALENCIANES1 ..

The uniqueness of this proposal lies in the resolute commitment on the part of those involved designers and authors of the project, Nestor Novell and Elisabeth Delios, that the cultural sectors and therefore culture could be relevant elements in the definition of a space. We firmly believe in this perspective and believe that, within the framework of the new globalised information society, cultural production and its distribution model are really key elements in defining levels of competitiveness and in the long-term sustainability of territorial spaces. If this is true for any space, it is even more true for the territory they call Central counties, since it is a space that until very...

The uniqueness of this proposal lies in the resolute commitment on the part of those involved designers and authors of the project, Nestor Novell and Elisabeth Delios, that the cultural sectors and therefore culture could be relevant elements in the definition of a space. We firmly believe in this perspective and believe that, within the framework of the new globalised information society, cultural production and its distribution model are really key elements in defining levels of competitiveness and in the long-term sustainability of territorial spaces. If this is true for any space, it is even more true for the territory they call Central counties, since it is a space that until very recently constituted no administrative unit, but which internalised some speech of cultural homogeneity and even enjoyed a certain legend – otherwise unobjective – of “power” in cultural production within the framework of the Valencian Community. Historical reasons, certain unique cultural experiences since the recovery of democracy there in the mid-1970s, and also the will of some cultural agents had inspired this contrasting speech. With this intentionality, our analysis links culture and territory into three main nodes: 1) culture as an element of territorial cohesion, 2) the relationship between culture, economic growth and employment, and 3) culture as a defining factor in the quality of life of its citizens

Pp. 120

The uses of the Turia Garden

Rausell-Köster, Pau Sorribes Monrabal, Josep del Saz Salazar, Salvador

Los usos del Jardín del Turia.

Parks are all public spaces in the sense that they provide a place for anyone to use for rest, relaxation or recreational purposes in an environment of effective individual or collective interrelationship under conditions of certain security. (Low, Taplin, Scheld, 2005, pág 3). Open spaces and urban parks have become essential elements in the development of cities practically since the beginning of urban planning. The park thus becomes a wide-spectrum vaccine that prevents space from the stress of urban life, softens the aggressive asphalt and cement landscape and recycles, converts and purifies noise and gases from motorisation and pollution.

Pp. 39

What can economics have to say about children's and young people's literature?

Rausell-Köster, Pau

Primeras Noticias De Literatura Infantil Y Juvenil.

This work aims to show what economics' possibilities are for interpreting the phenomenon of children's and children's literature. In this regard, we must talk about a double approximation: a) a more restricted view of the economy in which the characteristics of children's and young people's books as a product b) an approximation as a rational choice theory from which one can attempt to explain the decisions of creators, distributors and consumers of children's and youth literature. Finally, from this second perspective too, a vision is presented on policies for promoting reading. All in all, therefore, we call on the ability and the opportunity of the economy to analyse in greater depth all...

This work aims to show what economics' possibilities are for interpreting the phenomenon of children's and children's literature. In this regard, we must talk about a double approximation: a) a more restricted view of the economy in which the characteristics of children's and young people's books as a product b) an approximation as a rational choice theory from which one can attempt to explain the decisions of creators, distributors and consumers of children's and youth literature. Finally, from this second perspective too, a vision is presented on policies for promoting reading. All in all, therefore, we call on the ability and the opportunity of the economy to analyse in greater depth all those social facts that relate to the practice and dissemination of culture in general, and to the analysis of children's and youth literature in particular.

No. 218, pp. 41-46

Economia de la identitat. Sols un divertimento?

Rausell, Pau

L'Espill. No.Nº 24. Hivern de 2006

pp 26-34

Considerations on the transit of Valencia to the global city. Cities

Rausell-Köster, Pau

Consideraciones sobre el tránsito de Valencia hacia la ciudad global. Ciudades.

The Social Sciences have been announcing for some decades now a new paradigm that articulates social and economic relations in a different way from that of conventional capitalism. Numerous literature, from Touraine and Bell or Toffler in the 1960s and 1970s to the most recent contributions of Castels, or Rifkin noted, among many other issues, the growing importance of "symbolistic dimension" as an attribute of property, territories or human groups themselves. What is relevant in this new environment is not the physical or functional characteristics of things/spaces/persons, but their meanings.

Pp. 71

Productivity Analysis in the Spanish Cultural and Leisure Industry: A Regional Perspective.

Marco-Serrano, Francisco Rausell-Köster, Pau

The Culture and Leisure Industries represent an increasing share of the Spanish GDP. In this way, considering the different factors of the competitivity, the productivity of these industries is analysed for the mid-nineties to a regional level. The results at which we arrived allow us to glimpse growth potentialities derived from technical progress and improvements in the scale economies. Another one of the facts this work confi rms is the sectorial supremacy of the Community of Madrid, followed closely by Catalonia, Aragon and Galicia.

Vol. 24-2, Pp: 699-722

The time of culture. Economic and social report of the Balearic Islands 2004

Rausell-Köster, Pau

El temps de la cultura. Informe econòmic i social de les illes balears 2004.

The social prospective surrounding the phenomenon of culture repeats with sufficient recurrence the account that we inevitably drift towards the space of trivialisation of symbolic messages, that is, towards the decline of culture. For the most, the detriment of profound meaning, massification, the reduction of cultural diversity as a result of globalisation, the failures of education systems in transmitting essential events in our histories and literatures, the media misrepresentation of cultural events, the invasion of tourist hordes into cultural locations and even the emergence of the Internet, are seen as irrefutable proof of a decline that brings us to poorer, smaller social...

The social prospective surrounding the phenomenon of culture repeats with sufficient recurrence the account that we inevitably drift towards the space of trivialisation of symbolic messages, that is, towards the decline of culture. For the most, the detriment of profound meaning, massification, the reduction of cultural diversity as a result of globalisation, the failures of education systems in transmitting essential events in our histories and literatures, the media misrepresentation of cultural events, the invasion of tourist hordes into cultural locations and even the emergence of the Internet, are seen as irrefutable proof of a decline that brings us to poorer, smaller social environments that limit the human condition subjected to the bombardment of television and to advertising messages that only activate and reinforce our status as consumers.

Pp. 532-538

The cultural practices and uses of foreign immigrants in Gandia

Rausell-Köster, Pau

Las prácticas y los usos culturales de los inmigrantes extranjeros en Gandía .

As it appears in other parts of this work, the phenomenon of recent immigration is a composite, multidimensional and difficult to deal with in all its complexity. Social analysis must therefore be based on schematisation procedures which may in some cases lead to excessively simplified extremes. This is the risk of trying to analyse the behaviours and attitudes of a whole range of citizens who, because of their cultural background, are absolutely diverse and influenced by completely different factors and circumstances.

Pp. 200-220