The PhD project is concerned with the historical and contemporary dynamics of corporate collections as guardians of emergent heritage. It is part of a larger project that will analyse how corporate collecting functions as a source of signals to different audiences, including museums and other actors on the art market and both internal and external stakeholders of the collecting organizations. The PhD candidate will be supervised by dr. Arnold Witte, department of Cultural History, and prof. Nachoem Wijnberg, professor in Cultural Entrepreneurship, of the Amsterdam Business School.