The Proposal of a model to build a museum network and its management in a systemic perspective in Apulia

To recognize the network as an organizational solution much more in sync with the post modern context and the spread during the last decades of a large number of networks and museum systems on the national territory, even if very different among them, has called many management scholars’ attention to these theories. Organizational reticular arrangements and management models responding to the systemic perspective have been recognized by managerial literature as the best solutions to optimize the efficacy and efficiency of museums in particular Italian ones, as mostly small size, with a widespread availability on the territory and of primary local interest, besides heavily weighed by internal financial, organizational and productive restrictions. This paper aims at highlighting the distinctive networks and museums systems characteristics, at focusing on the potentiality of organizational and managerial solutions to optimize the efficacy and efficiency of Italian museums, at modeling the phases of museum networks building process and system implementation. For this end we will use existing literature about this, but also the analysis of the empirical evidence of networks and museum systems in Europe and in Italy and we will get at proposing a model for the founding of an Apulia Regional Museum System.