Management in Museums
Published on 1. October 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-485-90008-8 (ISBN)
Description
Management in museums has become a key issue in the 1980s and 1990s, a reflection of the challenges that museums face in operating in a a rapidly changing environment. Research in this field has developed significantly and this volume brings together some major contributions.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
506 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-485-90008-8 (9780485900088)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Kevin Moore is at the University of Leicester.
Content
Embracing organizational change in museums - a work in progress, Robert R. Janes; creative management in museums, Julian Spalding; management of museums in the 1990s - governments and organizational reform, D.J.G. Griffin and M. Abraham; leadership, David Fleming; visionary leadership and missionary zeal, Stuart W. Davies; project management in practice - the Museum of Liverpool Life, Loraine Knowles; "when they are good, they are very, very good, but..." - the challenge of managing retired volunteers in small museums, Kate Osborne; why are there not more women museum directors?, Maggie Blake; organizational cultures in a museum and art gallery, Alf Hatton; total quality management in museums - an investigation into the adaptive relevance of TQM in the museums sector, Carol Bowsher.