Biography
Carolina Dalla Chiesa (1987) is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Economics and Organizations at the Department of Arts and Culture (ESHCC/EUR). Her research focus lies on the transformations of cultural markets post-digitalization, funding and financing models for the cultural sectors, and organizational debates in the arts.
Carolina holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Economics (2021 - Erasmus University Rotterdam), an MSc. in Cultural Anthropology *cum laude* (2017 - UFRGS), an MSc in Management and Organization Studies (2014 - UFRGS) and BA in Business Administration (UFRGS, Brazil, 2011). After her doctoral studies, Carolina worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Culture and Sociology Department at Leuphana University (Lueneburg, Germany) with a focus on the practices of digitally-based creators.
Carolina was awarded the Best Ph.D. Thesis Prize (E021) by the Erasmus Graduate School of Social Sciences and the Humanities, and two prizes in Organization Studies conferences (2013 and 2014 - EnANPAd, Brazil).
Furthermore, Carolina worked as a Lecturer in the Business School (UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil), teaching courses such as Sociology of Organizations and Introduction to Management Studies.
Outside academia, Carolina worked as a Project Manager at the Creative Economy Observatory (OBEC), in partnership with the Ministry of Culture in Brazil (2014-2017), as well as a consultant in the non-profit sector for a brief period.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
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Work
- Carolina Dalla Chiesa, Ellen Loots, Guilherme Brandelli Bucco & Yosha Wijngaarden (2025) - Matchfunding Momentum: The Effect of Institutional Funding on the Success of Crowdfunded Cultural and Creative Projects - Journal of Alternative Finance, 1-28 - doi: 10.1177/27533743251346905 - [link]
- Carolina Dalla Chiesa, Alina Pavlova, Mariangela Lavanga & Nadiya Pysana (2024) - When fashion meets crowdfunding: exploring sustainable and innovative features of online campaigns - Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management, 28 (4), 688-708 - doi: 10.1108/JFMM-03-2021-0068 - [link]
- Valeria Morea & Carolina Dalla Chiesa (2024) - Scratching the surface of urban change: Art collectives as public entrepreneurs - International Small Business Journal, 42 (1), 67-89 - doi: 10.1177/02662426231205197
- Carolina Dalla Chiesa & Anders Rykkja (2024) - Bridging the urban-digital divide: Crowdfunding as an online middleground space - City, Culture and Society, 37 - doi: 10.1016/j.ccs.2024.100580
- Carolina Dalla Chiesa & Erwin Dekker (2024) - Communicating identity: how the symbolic meaning of goods creates different market types - Review of Social Economy, 82 (1), 76-97 - doi: 10.1080/00346764.2021.2019822 - [link]
- Yosha Wijngaarden, Carolina Dalla Chiesa & Ellen Loots (2023) - Samenwerken door samen te financieren: Reflecties op het mixen van financieringsvormen - Boekman. Tijdschrift voor Kunst, Cultuur en Beleid, 137 (Winter 2023/2024)
- Claire van Teunenbroek, Carolina Dalla Chiesa & Laura Hesse (2023) - The contribution of crowdfunding for philanthropy: A systematic review and framework of donation and reward crowdfunding - Journal of Philanthropy and Marketing, 28 (3), 1-15 - doi: 10.1002/nvsm.1791 - [link]
- Carolina Dalla Chiesa, Valeria Morea & Francesca Sabadini (2023) - “Circuits of Commons”: Exploring the Connections Between Economic Lives and the Commons - doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-17127-7_4
- Carolina Dalla Chiesa & Andriani Alexopoulou (2022) - Matchfunding goes digital: The benefits of matching policymaking with the crowd’s wisdom - European Journal of Cultural Management and Policy, 12, 1-12 - doi: 10.3389/ejcmp.2022.11090
- Claire van Teunenbroek, Carolina Dalla Chiesa & Laura Hesse (2022) - The contribution of crowdfunding for philanthropy: A review and theoretical framework of reward- and donation-based crowdfunding - [link]
- Ellen Loots, Yosha Wijngaarden & Carolina Dalla Chiesa (2024) - Between a rock and a hard place: how cultural and creative entrepreneurs negotiate distinctiveness in grant acquisition (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Ellen Loots, Yosha Wijngaarden & Carolina Dalla Chiesa (2024) - Between a Rock and a Hard Place. How artists negotiate distinctiveness in grant proposals (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Ellen Loots, Carolina Dalla Chiesa & Yosha Wijngaarden (2024) - Mixing a healthy blend? Trends in collaborative funding and financing (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Carolina Dalla Chiesa, Lisanne Brouwer, Yosha Wijngaarden & Ellen Loots (2022) - Crowdfunding for independent musicians (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Professional - Carolina Dalla Chiesa (2018) - The shape of creative content crowd-funded on Patreon (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Carolina Dalla Chiesa, Christian Handke & A Pavlova (2018) - Crowdfunding in the Cultural and Creative Industries: a Bibliometric-thematic analysis (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Carolina Dalla Chiesa (2017) - Between isomorphism and differentiation: on reward-based crowdfunding platforms (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic
- Carolina Dalla Chiesa (2021) - Best PhD Thesis EGSH
- Carolina Dalla Chiesa (2021) - Best PhD Thesis
Master Thesis
- Level
- MA
- Year Level
- MA
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- CC4150
Manag. of Cult. & Creat. Industr.
- Level
- BA-1
- Year Level
- BA-1
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- CC1022
Introduction to Economics
- Year Level
- BA-1, BA-1
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- CC1005
Cultural Economics: Theory
- Level
- MA
- Year Level
- MA
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- CC4111
Cultural Organisations
- Year Level
- MA, MA-2
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- CC4118
