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Managing Cultural Heritage explores managerial and governance issues within the cultural heritage sector, with particular regard to the ecomuseum. Moreover, a social accountability model is supplied to ecomuseums in order to be accountable towards its shareholder, the local community.

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1. Introduction: How to Manage Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis 2.The Ecomuseum Under a Managerial Perspective 3.The Governance Framework in the Ecomuseum Context 4. The Ecomuseum Practices: an International Overview 5. The Tuscan Experience 6. Which accountability for the Ecomuseum: A "Community" Governance Scorecard Model 7. Closing Remarks

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Michela Magliacani is Associate Professor in Business Administration at the Department of Economics and Management, University of Pavia. Her research interests include cultural heritage management, accounting history and management accountancy. She has presented research on these themes at EURAM, and EIASM International Conferences. Her research and teaching experience includes the Department of Park & Recreation and Tourism Resources at Michigan State University, USA, the Department of Business and Economics at University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain, the College of Food, Tourism and Creative Studies at University of Birmingham, UK and the Department of Management at Kozminski University, Warsaw, Poland.

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