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To a Bocconi Trio the Best Paper Award of the 2011 AIMAC Conference

, by Tomaso Eridani
The award assigned to Slavich, Cappetta and Salvemini at the meeting of academics of arts and culture management

With a paper on Italian haute cuisine, 'Can Italian haute cuisine become a real industry? Some lessons from the near-by cultural industries', Barbara Slavich, assistant professor at IESEG School of Management in Paris and professor in Bocconi, Rossella Cappetta, Head of the Organization and Personnel Division of SDA Bocconi and Severino Salvemini, professor of Organization Theory (the last two of of the Department of Management and Technology at Bocconi) were awarded with the Best Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management (AIMAC 2011).

The conference is the biennial meeting of the international network of academics of arts and culture management, organized this year by the University of Antwerp, and the winning paper was selected by a scientific committee among the 147 papers presented during the three days. The study is part of a wide research project by Slavich, Cappetta and Salvemini on the limits of the industrial growth and the organizational and creative procedures of the Italian haute cuisine sector.

At the conference were also presented the papers 'Values and coalitions in the contemporary art market' by Stefano Baia Curioni, vicepresident of Ask Bocconi research centre (Art, science, knowledge), and Laura Forti, Ask researcher, 'Towards an enhanced framework for impact evaluation of cultural events' by Ilaria Morganti and Massimiliano Nuccio, Ask researchers, 'Co-Destructing Value through Consumer Fanaticism: The Scala/Loggionisti Case' by Antonella Carù, professor at Bocconi's Department of Marketing, and Bernard Cova, professor at Euromed Marseille and Bocconi, and 'Immigration and new media. "Diasporic media": a preliminary case based in Milan' by Paola Dubini, Ask director, and Francesco Pasetti, Ask researcher.

A paper ('The Paradoxes of Creativity in Haute Cuisine Industry. How to Organize Creativity to Last Beyond First Generation') by Slavich, Cappetta and Salvemini drawn from the same research project had already won the Best Conference Paper award at the 12th Workshop of the Italian researchers and professors of Organization held in Naples in June.

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