Silvia Sacchetti

My current research addresses the governance and networking of organisations that produce meritorious goods, within two sectors in particular: • the cultural sector, and in particular creative occupations and cultural nonprofit organisations, currently focusing on cultural volountary organisations, music schools and musicians and their implications for communities and stakeholders. In 2020 I was granted Euros 50,000 by the bank foundation Fondazione Caritro to start a research project on music schools, their networks and local development (start December 2020 for two years) to take extant research further. In 2021 I was responsible (with Mario Diani) for a research project commissioned by the trentino Brass Band Federation (Euros 10,000). • work integration social enterprises and their implications for communities and stakeholders. In 2015 I was granted internal but competitive OU funds on social enterprise governance. This internally funded preliminary research has developed into a successful Leverhulme Research Grant (£10,000) awarded by the British Academy to address work integration social enterprises. My early research has been concerned with the limits of corporate hierarchies, and especially with the development implications of concentration of decision-making power in production governance in terms of uneven development amongst people and localities. Starting from critical literature, I have studied production governance solutions for the development of inclusive economies and localities, and for building inclusive relations amongst communities of interest at all societal levels. Specifically, earlier research has focused on the study of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), their networks and clusters as industrial development models.

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