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    Market system dynamics, “sociology of texts”, and materiality of the book: Venice and the Renaissance printing industry

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    The case study, between historical institutionalism and sociology of translation, faces the evolution of the press and the emergence of publishing in Venice between 1490 and 1515. Adopting a market system dynamics perspective, the book as a “cultural artefact” is the unit of analysis in this study. The investigated phenomenon revolves around the entrepreneurial experience of Aldus Manutius and the cultural dynamics of that era, while observing the interweaving of different institutional logics and the emergence of market creation processes supported by forms of institutional work

    Boundary Objects, “Translation” and Institutional Work: “Consuming History” and “A History of the World in 100 Objects”

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    This paper analyzes the relationship between production and consumption in terms of relational materialism and performativity (Callon 1998; Latour 2005) in “a posthumanist practice theory orientation” (Nicolini 2012): (i) introducing the analogy of “material culture as text” (Olsen 2013); (ii) and considering the practices of institutional work (Lawrence, Suddaby 2006) that connect “human and nonhuman actors” (Carlile et al. 2013) with “institutional dynamics in markets” (Araujo et al. 2010; Dolbec, Fischer 2015). To investigate how things are transformed into (written) discourse and, in general, as the latter builds the relationship between things and texts (“textual approach to things”: de Groot 2009; Olsen 2013), the work takes the form of a case study using an original project by the British Museum as revelatory incident (Belk 1988, 2006). The analogy with the “(re)turn to things” in the evolution of archaeological studies (Shanks, Tilley 1992; Olsen et al. 2012) allows you to reflect on a practice-based approach in marketing studies

    Infrastructures in Practice, Market Dynamics, and Historical Railways Tourism: The Appleton’s Guide to the United States and Canada, 1879

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    This work historically analyses the infrastructural dynamics of the North American railway system and proposes a connection between the concepts of space, materiality and institutional dynamics which can be used for tourism management studies. The theory-building case study (in a grounded theory approach) is based on a BBC travel documentary on the Appleton’s General Guide of 1879. Starting from the concepts of “production of space” and “sociospatial relations”, the introduction of the specific material infrastructure dimension allows us: i) to pinpoint a theoretical framework over four levels (territory, place, scale, networks) in order to study the “institutional dynamics of markets”; (ii) and suggests a possible practice-based turn in destination marketing studies
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