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Katja Lindqvist.

Katja Lindqvist

Senior lecturer, associate professor

Katja Lindqvist.

Competence management in museums

Author

  • Katja Lindqvist

Summary, in English

Museums face increasingly complex demands in terms of increasingly diverse audiences, the rapid digital development, and demands on increased collaboration in order to achieve their organisational goals, while resources remain limited. This means that competence management and strategic development of museum organisations and services is ever more important. Yet, there is hardly any empirical research on this topic, at least not in a European context, and this paper offers qualitative descriptions of contemporary competence management practices. As there is very little research in the museum sector to refer to, references to previous research is made mainly within the general area of management. Acknowledging the lack of research in this area in the Nordic countries in particular as compared to research in North America and the UK and Australia, the paper contributes to a European continental body of research on the challenges of museum management in a rapidly changing society and economic austerity. Through an exploratory study of practices of competence management, the paper contributes to this under-researched area, and indicates needs for further research in the field of organisational change and strategic management of museums and cultural organisations.

Department/s

  • Department of Service Studies

Publishing year

2019

Language

English

Document type

Conference - other

Topic

  • Business Administration

Keywords

  • competence provision
  • competence management
  • organisational learning
  • museums

Conference name

EURAM 2019

Conference date

2019-06-25

Conference place

Lisbon, Portugal

Status

Unpublished

Project

  • Våra museer - Strategisk kompetensförsörjning och tjänsteutveckling för en kulturarvssektor i utveckling med samhället