How can European museums reach sustainability?

Virto, Nuria Recuero; López, María Francisca Blasco; Gutiérrez, Sonia San Martín

doi:10.1108/tr-03-2017-0038

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“…Given this background and the results of our research, future studies should focus on exploring the influence of other possible factors on cultural sustainability in museums. Because market orientation, innovation, and the high value offered to customers have a positive impact on economic and social sustainability of museums [82], they might influence cultural sustainability as well. In particular, technological innovation was found to be a source of competitive advantage for museums [32] and, consequently, it could have a great impact on cultural sustainability as well.…”

Section: Social Sustainabilitymentioning

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Achieving Cultural Sustainability in Museums: A Step Toward Sustainable Development

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Cultural sustainability is increasingly being perceived as a fourth dimension of sustainable development. So far, some studies have debated the way in which cultural sustainability can lead to economic, social, and environmental benefits, while others have highlighted how the classic pillars of sustainability can help museums to achieve their core cultural mission. However, empirical studies regarding cultural sustainability in museums are scarce. Thus, one of the aims of our research was to fill this gap by developing several econometric models that explain the influence of heritage exposure; environmental behavior; openness to the public; and effectiveness and performance in collecting, preserving, and researching the cultural heritage. A second aim was to advance the current knowledge in this field by creating an integrated frame that explains the interconnections between different variables that help museums become sustainable, as well as the place and role of cultural sustainability within the overall framework of sustainable development. To achieve these goals, an in-depth analysis of the literature was followed by a survey of 86 Romanian museums. The results show that the ability of museums to reach cultural sustainability is influenced by components of their social and economic performance, while environmental behavior proved to be insignificant.

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“…To keep pace with aggressive competition in the digital era, ICT plays an irreplaceable role in producing creative IT-generated content and/or innovative ICT-enabled services and knowledge, and sustainable development relies largely on ICT to facilitate or even enable them to affect positive social and environmental change [5,15,16,21,23,[45][46][47]. Both ICT-and non-ICT-oriented organizations are recognizing the potentially significant role of ICT in enabling and supporting sustainability practices [7,48,49]. Sustainability is now an embedded and overarching feature of organizations' strategic planning [11,44,50].…”

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“…Sustainability is now an embedded and overarching feature of organizations' strategic planning [11,44,50]. Therefore, ICT has become a major supporter of business innovation and wealth generation, and has helped organizations to develop sustainability capabilities [29,48,49,51].…”

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The Evolving Role of IT Departments in Digital Transformation

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In the digital era, organizations are increasingly tasked with creating and utilizing new content, applications, and/or services through the use of advanced information and communication technologies (ICT) to sustain a competitive advantage. Indeed, sustainability is now an embedded and overarching feature of organizations’ strategic planning. Research has shown that information technology (IT) departments are vital to organizations’ digital transformation. However, the role of IT departments in non-ICT-oriented organizations undergoing digital transformation has yet to be explored. Our study reveals that although the IT departments of non-ICT-oriented organizations play an important and proactive role in the early stages of organizational transformation and a dominant role in developing ICT capabilities, they will be unable to assume a leadership role within the organizations after transformation is complete.

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“…In accordance with Mwesiumo and Halpern (2016) and Recuero Virto et al (2017), structures based on cooperation and complementarity are a type of linkage that generates adaptations, allowing companies turn a threat into an opportunity by seeking to unite the organisation's goals, initiatives and resources around common objectives to reduce costs, manage resources and be competitive in a global market. Nevertheless, the relationship between the adoption of best practices and organisational efficiency is unclear for tourism SMEs (Nikraftar and Hosseini 2016).…”

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A Systems Science Approach to Inter-Organisational Complementarity in Tourism SMEs

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This article proposes a model based on the integration of systemic mechanisms such as the soft systems methodology, partial least squares path modelling and the viable system model as an alternative for fostering complementarity (associativity) in Small and Medium Enterprises to improve responsiveness and adaptations in the tourism sector. The systemic method was adopted as a framework for the proposal. In this regard: 1. The soft systems methodology was used to frame the problem and propose a construct for outlining a possible solution; the methodology included a questionnaire applied to 150 actors (including SME owners and managers and government officials). 2. Partial least squares path modelling was used to statistically validate the relationships in the construct. 3. Through the viable system model, the interactions between SMEs were reconsidered to recognise contextual impacts and foster complementarity. The goodness of fit of 70% obtained for the conceptual model suggests that complementarity, as an organisational form, is possible. The soft systems perspective is considered suitable because it deals with the complex nature of the problem (SME associativity). Although the results in this study apply to the Mexican context, we suggest that this potential limitation can be offset by the multi-methodological approach proposed here, allowing the model's application to all kinds of organisations. Hence, the observations in this paper are constrained to the organisational domain. This study may enable scholars and managers to improve communication channels as well as inter-organisational relationships, emphasising the increase in the responsiveness and adaptation capabilities to facilitate associativity between SMEs in the studied sector.

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How can European museums reach sustainability?

Cited by 37 publications

References 76 publications

Achieving Cultural Sustainability in Museums: A Step Toward Sustainable Development

Achieving Cultural Sustainability in Museums: A Step Toward Sustainable Development

The Evolving Role of IT Departments in Digital Transformation

A Systems Science Approach to Inter-Organisational Complementarity in Tourism SMEs

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