The topics addressed in this issue range from changing educational demands in arts administration, to the creation of value chains in the production of staged works, to the industrial organisation of the contemporary arts in Italy.

Of special interest is the article on the impact of legal, socio-economic and cultural factors on the Internet piracy level of a country, looking also at policy implications.

Another interesting article reports on consumers' evaluation of cultural sponsorship in Canada according to variables such as the type of the sponsor and the nature of the sponsorship.

In addition to the regular abstracts, this number includes also short summaries of each of the seven articles in French.

To view the publisher's online table of contents with abstracts in English, French and Spanish, please click on this external link.