Luca Zan        	Born on October 6, 1953. 
	Via Angelelli 10, 40137 Bologna, Italy, Tel: +39-051-6237767 - luca.zan@unibo.it
 
1. CURRICULUM VITAE  (October 2012)
1.1 Academic curriculum
2017	Director of the Graduate degree on Management and Innovation of Cultural and Arts Organizations (GIOCA), University of Bologna.
2016	Visiting Professor, RMIT, Melbourne (July-August). 
2016	Visiting Professor, Eugene Unievsrity (April).
2014	Seminario De Alta Dirección En Gestión Del Patrimonio Cultural, Buenos Aires, 8-12 Settembre 2104
Since 2012	Teaching assignment “Management and the Arts: the European Perspective” at CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts), Beijing, China.
2012-2015	Director of the Graduate degree on Management and Innovation of Cultural and Arts Organizations (GIOCA), University of Bologna.
April 2011	Teaching assignment “Management and the Arts: the European Perspective” at MA in Cultural Management, Bilgi University, Istanbul.
Since 2011	Teaching assignment on “Heritage, History and the Issue of Managing”, GIOCA, University of Bologna.
Since 2009	Responsible for the Italian part of the Double Degree on Arts Management between University of Bologna, GIOCA, and Carnegie Mellon University, MAM.
2009-10	PhD direct readings supervisor, on “Management and Business Ethics Before the Industrial Revolution”, Georgetown University, Washington DC.
2008-09	Visiting fellow at SOAS, Centre for Chinese Studies (October-December 2008; April-May 2009), and Princeton University, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies (January-March 2009).
Since 2006	Faculty member of the PhD program in Management, University of Bologna
Since 2004	Visiting professor, Carnegie Mellon University, with teaching assignment on “Managing Cultural Heritage: Identity and Sustainability” (previously: “Management and the Arts: the European Perspective”) at MAM (Master of Arts Management Program).
Since 2002	Teaching assignment on “General management for arts organizations” at GIOCA program, University of Bologna
2002-2008	Director of the Graduate degree on Management and Innovation of Cultural and Arts Organizations (GIOCA), University of Bologna.
2001-03	Teaching assignment in general management at the Master in Print and Multimedia Editing, University of Bologna (director Prof. U. Eco)
1998 	Visiting Fellow, Warwick Business School (April-May)
Since 1995	Associate Professor and since 2000 Full Professor of Economia Aziendale, University of Bologna, Italy
1994/1997	Member of the Faculty of the Ernst & Young European Doctoral Colloquium in Accounting
Since 1992	EIASM Associate Scholar and since EIASM Professor (European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management), Brussels
1983/95 	Research Fellow and later Associate Professor of Economia Aziendale at the Department of Economia e Direzione Aziendale, University of Venice

1.2 Background, education & training
1992	Intensive Advanced Course on Management Accounting Research, EIASM, Madrid
1986	Visiting fellow at the Centre for Corporate Strategy and Change, University of Warwick, September-October
1982	Field Consulting Euroforum, professional training course of Price Waterhouse, Ashridge Management College, Berkhamsted, UK
1978/79	Master in Business Administration, S.D.A., Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
1977	Laurea (Italian University Degree) in Political Science, major in Economics, University of Bologna, Italy

2. scientific, and internationaL ACtivities

2.1 Research Interests
Research interests deal with four major areas:
•	Strategic management: Critical revisiting of the evolution of strategy studies, with particular reference to the SBU approach, strategic planning; and the issue of strategic change.
•	The diffusion of managerial and economic discourse to non profit organizations: Theoretical and empirical investigation have been coupled in analyzing the evolution of managerial and accounting practices in trade unions and in other non profit organizations.
•	Management and accounting history: This area deals with two major topics: on the one hand the evolution of management and accounting thought, comparing different national traditions in accounting historiographies, and questioning the lack of historical interest by management studies. On the other hand the focus is on the history of management accounting practices and managerialism, especially in pre-industrial settings, such the Venice Arsenal 16th century. More recently, the broader issues of administrative heritage (i.e. the impact of local administrative traditions) in public sector is a major focus.
•	Management of Museums and Cultural Organizations: In recent years the research focus has further moved towards cultural organizations (museums in particular). The aim is to add a critical management understanding to the debate so far dominated by macro-economic and juridical approaches in strong conflict with the professionals culture (artist, musicians, museologist etc.). Whether in Italy or internationally, a strong emphasis is on field research.
Concerning Italian institutions, research has involved some important institutions (Archaeological Museum in Bologna, Pompeii, OPD, GAM) or kind of action-research/consultancy for public bodies (Intuitional transformation of Milan local authority museums, Venice local authority museums, Egyptian Museum in Turin; Scientific museums in Milan; on Pompeii development, for the Normale di Pisa). I also acted as Coordinator of  the research team on “The evolution of economic and managerial patterns for resources valorization and exploitation in museum organizations” within the National Project by CNR on Cultural Heritage). Research also includes performing arts, both at the individual level (Imola Academy of Piano, Ferara Buskers Festival) or on aggregate analysis (transformation of Italian Opera Houses; research for the Ministry of Culture on public funding for performing arts).
In the last years increasing attention have been addressed to international research, with various projects: a deep rooted research on the controversial changes occurring at the British Museum, since 1996; as part of a project by the Italian Foreigner Ministry on Xi’an (Shaanxi, 2002); as part of a project by the Italian Foreigner Ministry on the museums of Belgrade (2003); on the project of recovering the historical centre of Quito (2004); on Heritage Malta (2006-7); on Machupicchu (2008). Since 2005, however, research on the management of cultural heritage in China became a major research focus, with a 3 year project with the Luoyang Municipality (2005-08), a second project on the more general issue of administrative modernization, and a third joint-project with SOAS on Unesco sites in China (2009). At present, I am involved in a new three year project on the “Evaluation of Big Archaeological Sites Protection Projects” (Da Yi Zhi) set up by the Chinese 11th five years plan, as scientific consultant. Since 2010 I am coordinating a research team on the management of cultural heritage in Turkey is starting, in collaboration with Bilgi and Koç Universities.
Major research projects and grants are as follows:
-	CNR grant on management and accounting practice at the Venice Arsenal: Project leader within a bilateral CNR research grant on accounting and management practice at the Venice Arsenal at the turn of the 16th century, jointly with K. Hoskin, Warwick Business School, and Stefano Zambon, Padova University (grant n° 95.02045.10, & n° 97.01397.CT10, and 991506 CT10, 9903799.PF36, 0100659.PF36).
-	The management of research processes about the Similaun mummy: Coordinator of a project aimed at the reconstruction of researches around the Similaun mummy, from its discovery to its move to the Bolzano museum. The project gained the approval and the  access to archives in April 1998 by Prof. Dr. Hans Moser of  Forschungsinstitut für Alpine Vorzeit, Innsbruck University, and it is now in progress, also with the collaboration of Dr. Michael Habersam, Innsbruck University, and Dr. Raffaele Corrado, Bologna University. 
-	National Project on Cultural Heritage by CNR: Coordinator of  research team on “The evolution of economic and managerial patterns for resources valorization and exploitation in museum organizations” within the National Project by CNR on Cultural Heritage (research grants n° 96.03901.PS15; 97.04681.CT15; and 98.03432.PS).
-	Museum Foundation of the Municipality of Milan: Research assignment by the Culture Department of the city of Milan concerning “The condition of economic feasibility for the institutional transformation of local authority museums of Milan into a new setting inside a Foundation”, 2000.
-	Feasibility study of the enlargement of Shaanxi History Museum, Xi’an, China: member of the Development Project of the Italian Foreign Affair Ministry for the opening of a new section on Tang period frescos, with responsibility for economic and organizational aspects, 2002.
-	White paper on Venice Museum: leader of the research team run by the Cultural Department of Venice Municipality on Local Authority Museums in Venice, 2001-2002.
-	Member of the “Research project for the renewal of the Egyptian Museum in Turin”, run by Ires on behalf of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage, Piedmont Region, and CRT Foundation.
-	Member as institutional expert of the team in the Technical Assistance Project for the rehabilitation of the historical centre of Quito, Ecuador, funded by the Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, II stage (2004).
-	Management of Cultural Heritage in China: Research project with Luoyang Municipality (Henan Province, China) on “Strategies for the protection and promotion of Cultural Heritage of Luoyang, China. Managerial challenges in the modernization of archaeological discovery, preservation, and access” (2005 onward). Research project on “Managing Cultural Heritage in China. Managerial challenges in the modernization of archaeological discovery, preservation, and access”, included in the “Executive Protocol of the 12th joint commission on S&T Cooperation Between the People’s Republic of China and the Italian Republic for the Years 2006-2009, Annex 5”. Project funded in 2008 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on “La gestione dei Beni culturali in Cina. Aspetti manageriali nei processi di modernizzazione relativi alla scoperta archeologica, al restauro, alla valorizzazione”.
-	Transparency, accountability and effectiveness of public funding in the Italian performing art sector, research project funded by the Italian Ministry of Culture, 2006-2007.
-	Project for the national relics park of Tang Daming Gong site in Xi'an, China: international competitions organized by the Xi’an Bureau of Cultural Heritage (Third price, the first price has not been given), 2008.
-	Project for the development of capability and skills at the Sopreintendenza of Pompeii, with a feasibility analysis of the “Excellence Centre”, run by the Scuola Normale di Pisa.
-	Project at SOAS University, with Dr. Wang Tao, on “Chinese sites for UNESCO World Heritage List (UWHL): Presentation and Management”, funded by the Creative Connexions board, 2009.
-	Project for the institutional transformation of Scientific museums in Milan, ending on a broader proposal for renewal of the three entities involved (Acquario, Museo di Storia Naturale, Planetario), 2009-10.
-	Management in Turkey’s Cultural Heritage sector, 2010-12.
-	“Evaluation of Big Archaeological Sites Protection Projects” (Da Yi Zhi) set up Chinese 11th five years plan, as scientific consultant, CACH, Beijing. 2011-2014.
-	Responsible of the Consultancy project assigned by HCP (Herculaneum Conservation Project) to the Department of Management, University of Bologna, on the "Studio di pre-fattibilità sugli sviluppi gestionali del sito archeologico di Ercolano".
-	Responsible of the MoU between the GIOCA_Research Centre, Department of Management, Unibo, and the Said School of Business, Oxford on Bridging management and Humanities, 2016.
-	Member of the research team on I Musei Universitari del futuro: da Bologna all’Europa e ritorno.
-	Involvements with site management & business plan: 
In the recent years I've been involved in several project of site management and business plan, for both research and consultancy activities:
- Research: Heritage Malta (2007), Machu Picchu (2008), China (2005-2008), Turkey (2010-12):
- Professional involvement (as a consultant in the preparation of plans):  Foundation of Milan Municipal Museums, 2001; Egyptian Museum, Turin, 2002; Pompeii, 2010; Ercolano, 2012.

2.2 International activities
Member of the Managing team (Comitato di gestione) of the University Museum at Bologna University, 2016-.
Member of the international working group preparing the Document Nara+20, an assessment of the actual impacts and possible perspective emerged from the Nara Document in 1994 (presented in Japan, October 2014). 
The paper “Planning and Heritage” published in Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development has been selected by the journal’s Editorial Team as a Highly Commended Paper of 2013.
Member of the First Expert/Stakeholder Meeting, Pompei (Italy), 17 November 2012, within the framework of the project “Towards a governance system for coordinating the updating and the implementation of the Management Plan of the Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata”. This meeting is funded by the Italian Government and managed by the World Heritage Centre.
Invited speaker at the World Heritage Expert Meeting on “Heritage and Society – toward the 20th anniversary of the NARA Document and beyond”, Himeji, November 2012, 3‒5
Since 2012: Director, GIOCA Research Centre, Department of Management, University of Bologna
Chair of the workshop “Beni culturali e sviluppo sostenibile. Il problema del management”, Urban Promo, Bologna, November 2011.
Chair of the panel “Does West meet East in Arts and Heritage Management?”, Academy of Management Annual Conference, 2011, August, San Antonio.
Co-chair of the Symposium on “Teaching History to Management and Business Students”, 11th Euram Annual Conference, June 2011.
Guest speaker at the Bizot Group annual meeting, Rome, October 2010, delivering a speech on “Museum growth, outpost & expansion. A sense making exercise”
Speaker at the Plenary Session “Rediscovering History in Management Research”, 10th Euram Annual Conference, May 2010.
Lectures in 2011-2012: British School, Rome, November 24, and San Petersburg, October 6 (On the notion of value chain); Ecole des mines, Paris, February 14, 102 (The evolution of management knowledge and the role of State bureaucracies).
Lectures in 2010: Istanbul 2010-Avrupa Kültür Başkenti, January 27, (The Venice Arsenal and the emerging of modern management, ca 1570-1650); Sheffield University, UK, February 25, and Denver University, May 7 (on the management of Cultural heritage in China); Koc University, Turkey, March 24 (Institutional transformation in the heritage sector: examples from the Italian experience) and 25 (on transformation issues in Pompeii); Georgetown University Graduate Liberal Studies, April 23 (From Italian Opera to Chinese Archaeology: A Global Perspective on Managing Cultural Assets).
The sabbatical year in 2008-09 was a unique opportunity to visit important institutions both in the US and in the UK, giving lectures on my research: 
-	on the management of cultural heritage in China (ICCHA - International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology, London, October 17, 2008; Great Cities Institute, UIC, Chicago, February, 20, 2009; East Asian Studies Dept, Princeton University, March 09, 2009; International Center for East Asian Archaeology and Cultural History Boston University, March 2009, Boston MA; Institute for Chinese Studies, Oxford University, April 30, 2009; SOAS, London, April 28, and December 8, 2009; Dept. of Archaeology, Cambridge University, May 15, 2009);
-	on the management of Machupicchu (Business Management of Cultural Heritage, in Italy, China and Peru, The World Bank, Washington, DC, March 16, 2009)
-	on management history (Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Princeton University, January 29, 2009; Istanbul, January 27, 2010);
-	on arts management (Panel discussion with Anna Harwell Celenza, Joseph Volpe, moderator Murray Horwitz, on  Managing the Performing Arts in Times of Economic Challenge,  Georgetown University, The McDonough School of Business, March 16, 2009).
Co-opted by the Municipality of Bologna as a member of the Board of the Istituzione dei Musei Civici di Bologna (Institution of local authority museums in Bologna). 
Speaker at the 2008 Beijing Forum, Beijing, November 7-9, 2008.
Lecture at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Washington, April 18, 2008, on “Doing Research on Managing Cultural Heritage in China”.
Co-director of the International Activities Committee of the Academy of Accounting Historians, since 2008.
Winner of the Basil Yamey prize for the best article publish in 2007 on Accounting, Business and Financial History, relative to the article "Controlling expenditures, or the slow emergence of costing at the Venice Arsenal, 1586-1633", co-authored with Stefano Zambon.
Lecture at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Washington, April 12, 2007 on “Managing Cultural Heritage and Modernization of Administrative Systems. Insights from the Italian Tradition” (also presented at the World Bank conference on “Dialogue on Cultural Heritage in Sustainable Development”, April 16, 2007).
President of the Doctoral Education Committee of the Academy of Accounting Historians, since 2006-2007.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the “Collegio di China”, University of Bologna, since December 2005.
Invited speaker at the Symposium of Science and Technology Development on Cultural Property Conservation, Beijing, December 2005, with a paper on “Doing research on management in cultural heritage”.
Study visit to China, invited by the China National Institute of Cultural Property (CNICP), September 15-30, 2004. During this period an in depth investigation has been carried out on cultural heritage in the Provinces of Shanxi and Henan, focusing on the evolution of archaeological, restoration and promotion activities. I also gave a speech to curators and other museum’s professionals inside the Forbidden City, on “Managing cultural heritage: new challenges and old tasks”. I presented as well the paper on “Cultural Heritage between Centralization and Decentralization. Insights from the Italian context” at the International Conference on “Culture Heritage of Ancient Capitals & International Metropolis Construction”, Beijing Union University, September 16-18, 2004.
Co-chairmen (with Prof. Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, Stockholm University) of the symposium on “Management and the Arts - An open forum on European Research on Arts and Management”, Euram, St, Andrews, 2004.
During the peer review of research activities of my Department of Management, University of Bologna, in 2003, two streams of research I was directing (management & accounting history; management of arts organizations) got two out of the four A scores that the whole department gained.
Person in charge of the exchange agreement between the GIOCA Program, University of Bologna, and the Master in Arts Management, Carnegie Mellon University (since 2002).
Invited speaker, Annual Congress of the American Accounting Historians Association, Santa Fè, November 2001.
Member of the Program Advisory Board,  9th World Congress of Accounting Historians, Melbourne, July 2001. Member of the Program Advisory Board of the  8th World Congress of Accounting Historians (Madrid, 2000). 
Member of the editorial board of Accounting, Organizations and Society (1995-2002); of  De Computis, Spanish Journal of Accounting History (since 2004); and of the Italian journal  Economia e management (since 2004).
EIASM's Professor (since 2001) and previously EIASM's Associate Scholar, Brussels, (since 1992), participating in the organization of European workshops and courses, mostly in the field of accounting and management accounting. Amongst others: 2nd Workshop on Accounting, Strategy and Control, Brussels, September 1994: Accounting in its Organizational and Social Context, Brussels, September 1995; Workshop series on Management and Accounting in Historical Perspectives (First edition Bologna, December 1996; 2nd in Seville, December 1999; 3rd Workshop in, Lisbon, December 2002; 4th in Bologna, December 2005; 6th in Innsbruck, November 2008); Workshop series on Managing Cultural Organisation (1st edition London, January 2001,co-organised by The City University; 2nd Bologna, December 2004; 3rd Bologna, September 2008).
Chairman of the Symposium “Accounting for Art” within the Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association,  Bordeaux, May 1999.
Secretary-General  of the "17th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association", Venice, April 1994.   
Local organizer of the international workshop "Perspectives on strategic change. Studying organisations and  environments as processes", May 1991, jointly organized by the Centre for Corporate Strategy and Change, Warwick University ,and Venice University; and of the second edition of the workshop in Warwick, May 1993.
Member of the editorial board of City, Culture and Society, published by Elsevier (since 2009); Journal on Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, Emerald (since 2010); Economia della Cultura, il Mulino (since 2010); Accounting Historians Journal (since 2012).
Contributing as referee to the following journals:  Scandinavian Journal of Management (since 1990); - European Accounting Review  and Accounting, Organizations and Society (since 1994); Journal of Management  and Governance (since 1998); Accounting, Business and Financial History (since 1999); International Journal of Arts Management (since 2003).
Membership: Accademia Italiana di Economia Aziendale; Società Italiana di Storia della Ragioneria; European Accounting Association; Strategic  Management Society; European Business History Association.   

3. List of publications (divided by topics)
Arts Management and Museum 
- “Making Sense of Site Management”, forthcoming, in Makuvaza Sam, Aspects of Site Management Planning for Cultural World Heritage Sites: Principles, Approaches and Practices, (co-authors Lusiani M. e Ferri P.)
- "Mega engineering projects and archeological discovery. Institutional context, organizational challenges and professional issues at Yenikapı, Istanbul", The International Journal of Cultural Policy, forthcoming  (co-author S. Bonini Baraldi & D. Shoup).
- “Professional Utopianism and Administrative Naiveté. Uncertainty and Archaeology in the Shipwrecks of Pisa (1998-20??)”, in A.M. Labrador, N.A. Silberman (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Public Heritage Theory and Practice, Oxford University Press, forthcoming (co-author Daniel David Shoup).
- “Life and death in audience development. The exhibition on Pompeii at the British Museum, 2013”, Museum Management & Curatorship, 2017, DOI: 10.1080/09647775.2017.1307781: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2017.1307781, pp. 213-231 [co-author M. Pegoraro].
- “Partnerships for heritage conservation: evidence from the archeological site of Herculaneum”, Journal of Management & Governance, 2015, DOI 10.1007/s10997-015-9332-2 (trad. it.  “Economia e gestione delle partnership nei Beni culturali. Riflessioni sull'esperienza di Ercolano”, Aedon, 2014, n.3 http://www.aedon.mulino.it/archivio/2014/3/zan.htm) [coautore P. Ferri]
- “International Arts Management? Questioning isomorphism”, paper presented at “The 7th Art of Management & Organization Conference” 28-31 August 2014, CBS (a preliminary version also paper presented at the International Forum on Arts & Brain: Arts Management Thinking, CAFA, Beijing, November 27, 2013)
- Managing Cultural Heritage. An International research Perspective, Ashgate, London, 2015 (co-authors Bonini Baraldi S., Lusiani M., Shoup D., Ferri P., Onofri F.)
- "I Beni Culturali italiani tra innovazione amministrativa e decentralizzazione", in L'Italia e le sue regioni (1945-2011), a cura di Mariuccia Salvati e Loredana Sciolla, Volume I, Treccani, Roma
- "Mega engineering projects and archeological discovery. Institutional context, organizational challenges and professional issues at Yenikapı, Istanbul", working paper, University of Bologna, 2013 (co-author S. Bonini baraldi & D. Shoup).
- “New Approaches to Heritage Administration in China”, in Encyclopaedia of Global Archaeology,  Springer, 2013.
- "Ten years after: The rise and fall of managerial autonomy in Pompeii", Critical perspectives in Accounting, 2014, 25: 368–387 (co-author P- Ferri). Trad. It. “Pompei dieci anni dopo. Ascesa e declino dell'autonomia gestionale", Aedon, 2012 n. 1-2
- "Economic discourse and heritage conservation. Towards an ethnography of administrations", Heritage & Society, Vol. 6 No. 2, 2013, November, pp. 167–184
- “Understanding Cultural Heritage in Turkey: Institutional Context and Organizational Issues”, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2013, Vol.19, n. 7, pp. 728-748. (co-authors Sara Bonini Baraldi & Daniel Shoup).
- "Planning and Heritage", Introduction to the special issue on Planning and Heritage, Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, Volume 3 issue 2, 2013, pp.108-115 (co-author M. Lusiani).
- "Byzantine Planning: Site Management in Istanbul", Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites, Vol. 15 No. 2, May 2013, 169–94 (co-author D. Shoup)
- “A centralized decentralization: outsourcing in the Turkish cultural heritage sector”, The International Journal of Cultural Policy, 2012, DOI:10.1080/10286632.2012.731051 (co-authors Sara Bonini Baraldi & Daniel Shoup).
- Special issue on Managing Arts Organizations, International Studies of Management and Organization, Vol. 42, No. 2, Summer 2012. Including the Guest Editor's Introduction, “Research on Arts Organizations and the Lazy Community of Management Scholars”. 
- “The rhetoric of Cultural Policies and the issue of ‘getting things done’. Bologna Cultural Capital ten years after”, City, Culture and Society, Volume 2, Issue 4, December 2011, Pages 189-200, (co-authors Sara Bonini Baraldi, Federica Onofri). Trad it. Capitali europee della cultura e politiche culturali, Aedon, 2013, 1, http://www.aedon.mulino.it/archivio/2013/1/zan.htm.
- “Behind the scenes of public funding for performing arts in Italy: hidden phenomena beyond the rhetoric of legislation”, The International Journal of Cultural Policy, 2012, Vol 18 No. 1, 76-92 (co-author Luca Zan, Bonini Baraldi S., Mariani M., Ferri P., Lusiani M.). Trad. It. “Il finanziamento pubblico allo spettacolo dal vivo: una ricerca empirica”, Aedon, n2, 2008
- “Managing Machu Picchu: institutional settings, business model and master plans”, Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable  Development, Vol. 1 No. 2, 2011, pp. 157-176  (co-author Maria Lusiani)
- “Managing change and master plans. Machu Picchu between conservation and exploitation”, Archaeologies, 2011, vol 7, 2. pp.329-371 (co-author M. Lusiani)
- “The economy of music programs and organizations. A micro analysis and typology”, European Accounting Review, 2011, Vol. 20, No. 1, 113-148 (co-author M. Mariani).
- “Institutional transformation and managerialism in cultural heritage: Heritage Malta”, Museum Management and Curatorship, 2010, 25 (2), pp. 147-165 (co-authored with Maria Lusiani)
- (a cura di), Le risorse per lo spettacolo. Ricerca esplorativa su trasparenza, accountability e efficacia della spesa pubblica nello spettacolo, il Mulino, Bologna 2009
- “The Opificio delle Pietre Dure  in Florence: between excellence and surviving”, in Ayata B. (ed.), Kulturekonomi. Konsten att fånga osynliga vården, Studentlitteratur, Stockholm, 2007, 189-230 [co-author A. Narduzzo]
- Managerial Rhetoric and Arts Organizations, Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke, 2006
- “Cultural Heritage between Centralisation and Decentralisation: Insights from the Italian context”, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 2007, Vol. 13, No. 1, 49-70 (co-authors Bonini, S., Gordon, C.)
- “Much ado about management”, International Journal of Art Management, 2005, volume 7, number 3, Spring, 46-64 (co-author L.M Sicca)
- "Renewing Pompeii, Year Zero. Promises and expectations from new approaches to museum management and accountability", Critical Perspectives in Accounting, 13, 2002 (pp. 89-137).
- “Management and the British Museum”, Museum Management and Curatorship, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2000, (pp. 221-270).
- "Managerialisation processes and performance in arts organisations: The Archaeological Museum of Bologna",  Scandinavian Journal of Management, Vol. 16, n. 4, 2000 (pp. 431-454).
- (ed), “Accounting for Art”, Scandinavian Journal of Management, Vol. 16, n. 3, 2000 (335-347).
- "Piano, with harmony: analysing the Imola academy from a management study perspective", Financial Accountability & Management, Special Issues on Accountability in Non-Profit Organisations, Vol. 14, No. 3, 1998 (p. 215-231).

China Cultural Heritage
-  Heritage Sites in Contemporary China: Cultural Policies and Management Practices, Routledge, forthcoming [co-authors Yu B., Yu J., Yan H.]
- Chinese “Big Archaeological sites” (Da Yi Zhi). From policy to practices: the case of Sui & Tang city, Luoyang [co-author Bing Yu], working paper, 2014
- Cultural Nationalism and China. Stateholder approach and administrative legacy, working paper, University of Bologna, June 2014
- "Cultural Heritage in China between policies, development, professional discourse and the issue of managing", Public Archaeology Journal, special issue on Archaeology and Economic Development, Vol. 13, Nos 1-3, 2014, pp. 99-112.
- “Conservation & exploitation. Governance and sustainability issues in Lijiang cases”, in Jyoti Hosagrahar (ed), Urban China 2030, Columbia University Press, 2014, forthcoming (co-author Wang Tao).
-   “Managing heritage sites in China. The case of the Guan Lin Temple”. In Brol, R. and Sztando, A. (eds.) “Local Economy in Theory and Practice. Planning and Evaluation Aspects. N.282”. Wroclaw: Publishing House of Wroclaw University of Economics. 2013, pp.90-103. [co-author: S. Bonini Baraldi] 
- "New Approaches to Heritage Administration in China", in Encyclopaedia of Global Archaeology: Cultural Heritage Management Section, Springer, 2013, p. 1437-1441.
- “The Heritage Chain. General issues and a case study, China”, Journal of Cultural Heritage, 14 (2013) 211–218 (co-author Bonini Baraldi S.)
- “Opening the door to accounting change. Transformations in Chinese public sector accounting”, Accounting History Review, 22:3, 269-299 (co-author Qingmei Xue).
- “Managing Cultural Heritage in China. A View from the Outside”, China Quarterly, 210, June 2012, pp. 456-481 (co-author Sara Bonini). Trad. It. “La gestione del patrimonio culturale in Cina: uno sguardo dall'esterno”, Aedon, 2014, n.1 
- “Management and Presentation of Chinese sites for UNESCO World Heritage List”, in Special Issue: World Heritage cities management Guest editor(s): Ana Pereira Roders and Ron van Oers, Facilities, Vol. 29 No. 7/8, 2011, pp. 313-325 (co-author Wang Tao)
- “Budgeting China: macro policies and micro practices in public sector changes”, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 2011, 24, 1, pp. 38-62 (co-author Qingmei Xue).
- The Management of Cultural Heritage in China. General trends and a micro-focus on the Luoyang municipality, Egea, Milano, 2008 (co-author Y.Guo & S.Liu) (available as print-on-demand at  http://www.egeaonline.it/ENG/Catalogue/Search_Results.aspx?Chiave=guo&Tipo=2 ) 
- “Managing the archaeological chain in China. Between happy ending and organizational challenges.“ in Amoeda et al. (eds), Heritage 2008. World Heritage and Sustainable Development , Green Lines Institute Pub, Barcelos, Portugal. (co-author Bonini, S.)
- “Managerial Transformation in Chinese Museums. The Shaanxi History Museum in Xi'an”, Museum Management and Curatorship, June 2007, Vol. 22, No. 2, 151-182
Management and Accounting History
- “Micro foundations in the Great Divergence Debate: opening up the perspective”, Accounting History, forthcoming 2017 [co-author Kent Deng].
- “Complexity, anachronism and time-parochialism. Doing historical research from a (strategic) management background”, Business History, 58 (4), 2016.
-  “Change and continuity in managerialism: 100 years of administrative history at the International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza”, Management and Organization History, 2011, 6 (1), pp. 59-80 (co-author Maria Lusiani).  
-  “Controlling expenditure, or the slow emergence of costing at the Venice Arsenal (1586-1633)”, Special Issue on “Accounting History in Italy”,  Accounting, Business & Financial History, 2007, Vol. 17, No. 1, 105–128 (Co-author S. Zambon).
- Il “discorso del maneggio”. Pratiche gestionali e contabili all’Arsenale di Venezia, 1580-1643, il Mulino, 2006 (co-authors  F. Rossi & S. Zambon).
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