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Keeping tensions up: A reflexive analysis of the (strategy)-making-of Dolomiti Contemporanee

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  • Maria Lusiani

    (Dept. of Management, Università Ca' Foscari Venice)

  • Gianluca D'Inca' Levis

    (Dept. of Management, Università Ca' Foscari Venice)

Abstract

Adopting a process ontology and a strategy-as-practice lens, this paper explores the (often tacit) dimension of strategy work in cultural entrepreneurship. Drawing on a peculiar combination of auto-ethnography and more traditional observation and interview methods, the paper reconstructs the birth and becoming of Dolomiti Contemporanee, a major art curatorial project. From an analysis of the curator/entrepreneur actions, interactions and beliefs, two main elements emerge that explain the peculiarities of strategizing in this setting: the centrality of ÒtensionsÓ and Òcultural attitudeÓ. Tensions of several kinds are constitutive to the project, whose birth and becoming need the ability to create and keep tensions up continuously, not to solve or to manage them. However, these are sustained by an underlying, organic and passionate view of the whole project in its becoming, something that we call Òcultural attitudeÓ. These findings allow for a discussion of some features of cultural entrepreneurship and also of research-practice reflexivity and learning.

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  • Maria Lusiani & Gianluca D'Inca' Levis, 2016. "Keeping tensions up: A reflexive analysis of the (strategy)-making-of Dolomiti Contemporanee," Working Papers 3, Department of Management, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia.
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    Keywords

    strategizing; process studies; tensions; cultural entrepreneurship; reflexive practice; auto-ethnography;
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