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0000-0002-1291-7188
Current Organisation
University of South Australia
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Publisher: Cognizant, LLC
Date: 07-07-2023
DOI: 10.3727/152599522X16419948695062
Abstract: This article examines innovation in times of festival crises from a governance perspective using legitimacy theory. We conduct a case study of Adelaide Festival around three crises based on data drawn from annual reports, festival programs, and media articles from 1960 to 2021. Each crisis raises questions about the need to innovate, whether due to economic concerns or for new approaches to artistic programming, in order to safeguard legitimacy. However, the type of innovation varies based on internal and external environmental factors. Findings reveal tensions ranging from internal board and external stakeholder use of governance mechanisms, depending on the crisis and perceptions around art forms (e. g., elitism and Aboriginality). The findings provide insights on how appropriate use of governance mechanisms can help to balance tensions between maintaining legitimacy and promoting innovation. Innovation, nonetheless, did not reposition the festival in the long run: it remains elitist, compromising artistic vision.
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 10-04-2023
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 31-05-2011
DOI: 10.1108/03090561111120055
Abstract: The purpose of this research is to focus on the internationalisation process and experiences of Korean theatre companies. Factors investigated include cultural issues impinging on production values and the roles of entrepreneurial thinking and creativity. An analysis of impacting barriers on performing arts internationalisation is also carried out. A case study approach was used to investigate the performance and internationalisation activities of five Korean theatre companies that participated in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The exporting of Korean cultural products contributes markedly to the perception and understanding of Korea. Small theatre companies with a tolerance of risk‐taking, together with competencies in creativity and entrepreneurial thinking, can help to minimise the effect of unforeseen problems experienced during the internationalisation of theatre productions. The in‐depth case study approach adopted here has resulted in the uncovering of data that would not have been unveiled through questionnaire analysis alone. The findings can, however, contribute to future large‐scale surveys of the arts industry. The issues identified in this study are also relevant for other forms of internationalising artistic productions. The successful combination of artistic ability and the implementation of entrepreneurial competencies, together with the creative use of limited resources, serve as competitive advantages for the arts organisation. This research promotes a cross‐disciplinary approach to arts marketing in general by encouraging the interrogation of fields such as entrepreneurship, small business marketing and internationalisation research.
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Date: 25-01-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2022
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 30-08-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2018
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-07-2023
DOI: 10.1177/00187267231183852
Abstract: Relational pressures across multiple levels push organisations to behave socially responsibly or sometimes irresponsibly. But how do relational pressures across multiple levels influence social responsibility of small nonprofit organisations working with marginalised groups? Nonprofit organisations are increasing in importance owing to their role in development and representation of marginalised groups’ interests, yet their social responsibility is little understood. Using the lens of standpoint theory, we explore social responsibility of small disability arts organisations in the nonprofit sector in Australia drawing on 53 interviews involving actors at multiple levels, supplemented by site visits and observations. We find small nonprofit organisations’ social responsibility in a state of flux, influenced by differing priorities, expectations, and demands from various actors across levels. We provide insights into organisational social responsibility dynamics, identifying three major tensions that small arts organisations face – formality versus informality, agency versus representation, and access versus excellence – in seeking to be socially responsible. Our findings have relevance for organisations in the wider nonprofit sector, underscoring the need to explore their social responsibility from a relational perspective. Further, the resultant tensions from relational pressures, as identified in our study, provide important implications for organisational social responsibility advancing theoretical and practical knowledge in this emerging field.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-2022
Publisher: Korea arts and culture education service
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.25954/G8Z2-DS77
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-03-2023
DOI: 10.1002/NML.21561
Abstract: This article investigates the nature of tensions “on the ground” between the internal and external stakeholders of arts organizations in terms of performance measurement. Based on the qualitative analysis of 19 interviews, the performance measurement practices of two different‐sized arts organizations highlight internal and external stakeholders' contrasting perspectives on a number of measurement dimensions. In endeavoring to understand tensions between internal and external stakeholders, the article highlights the main differences which result from seemingly opposed ways of knowing. Internal stakeholders tend more to reflect “ phronesis ,” based on value‐rationality, while external stakeholders are more inclined to technical (“ techne ”), or analytical (“ episteme ”) knowledge based on instrumental rationality. Nevertheless, there is some evidence of positive engagement between internal and external stakeholders. The article argues that in order to mitigate tensions, internal and external stakeholders should aim for culturally embedded understanding through evaluation‐focused dialogue. In providing both theoretical contributions to nonprofit literature and managerial implications, the article offers an original perspective that challenges existing practice and calls for greater understanding of conflicting interests when different stakeholders are involved in performance measurement.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2022
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 30-08-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 26-01-2023
DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780197621615.013.28
Abstract: This article utilizes marketing theory to improve insight into the value relating to visual art creation and consumption by advancing understanding of its roles in the creation of the cultural value associated with contemporary art. This theoretical analysis enables construction of a conceptual model of value creation. The authors inform this by drawing on their qualitative research data on the cultural value of a contemporary art exhibition. Creation and sharing of value, including networks and discourses of value, are central to this agenda. Aesthetic experience and symbolic consumption are as influential or more so than instrumental measures of value. This can be visualized in a circle of value involving culture, marketing, and consumption, which shape meaning. A competency spectrum can be used to explain how and why each stakeholder behaves differently with respect to the cultural value present.
Publisher: UniSA Business
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.25954/XR5G-EC18
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-01-2023
DOI: 10.1007/S10997-022-09657-2
Abstract: Taking a management perspective in the field of philanthropy, this study examines 12 Australian major performing arts organizations over 19 years (2000–2018), which were identified as vulnerable and struggling with overreliance on public grants. Underpinned by theories that integrate understandings of external and internal resource management—resource dependence theory and the resource-based view—we uncover insights into what drives the increase in their philanthropic income. Using data from 228 annual reports and interviews, we present an original taxonomy that identifies organization-donor relationships and organizational efforts in nurturing philanthropy. We uncovered the interplays between donor engagement and positioning philanthropic staff in terms of organizational structure. Longitudinal financial and narrative data demonstrate that external resource management through donor engagement and internal resource management through organization structure emphasizing philanthropy have a significant impact on the growth of organizational philanthropic income.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-08-2020
Abstract: The article examines entertainment, arts and accounting practices of a national arts council that funds arts organisations and artists. It does so by investigating the first 25 years of annual reports of the Australian Council for the Arts (1973-1996), using media reports to triangulate the data. Set against a background of socio-political change, the study explicates the differing treatments of entertainment and the arts, as political parties come in and out of power, national policy shifts, and macro-economic changes occur. Guided by legitimacy theory, analysis of narratives and budgets as calculative practices in annual reports illustrates how the nexus between entertainment and the arts changes over time, with the emphasis or value placed on entertainment diminishing relative to the arts. We conclude that the arts council has become the ‘arts council for the performing arts’, calling into question moral, pragmatic and cognitive legitimacy of the arts council.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-05-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2016
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-04-2017
Abstract: Many nonprofit organizations face revenue uncertainty due to funding cuts. It is crucial for them to supplement existing revenue streams by private donations, and apply thoughtful market segmentation in their pursuit of donors. We introduce the behavioral concept of “nudge” based on the possibility of loss aversion affecting willingness-to-donate, and investigate its implications for fund-raising strategies. Potential donors are nudged to donate by the hypothetical scenario of “losing” an existing exhibition, and also by that of “gaining” an additional exhibition. We observe significant loss aversion effects as frequent gallery-goers donate more to avoid losing an exhibition. While both prospective gain and loss scenarios are effective in nudging nonfrequent gallery-goers, the prospect of enjoying “one more” event is observed to be stronger. We argue that there may be scope to increase support for nonprofit organizations, particularly in the cultural sector, by exploiting the psychological characteristics of prospective donors.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2023
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 18-10-2023
Abstract: This paper aims to provide clarity on arts marketing during COVID-19 by undertaking a critical review and theoretical integration of published cultural and creative industries (CCIs) data on the pandemic. The study draws on the findings from a content analysis of published refereed journal articles and research reports, between 2020 and 2022. This study clarifies how scholars in the arts marketing field have examined the concept and identified core dimensions. It also brings together these conceptual categories into an integrative multilevel framework of relevance for arts marketing during COVID-19. The framework outlines interconnected processes as well as dualities, such as digitisation, monetisation and sustainability of the CCIs and poses a future centred on entrepreneurial actions. The originality of the paper is that it provides clear-cut evidence for new frontiers for research in the field during a period of discontinuous change due to COVID-19, through a literature review that has not been undertaken previously. It links the need to be entrepreneurial as a means for the CCIs to survive and thrive during and after a global crisis.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2015
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 09-08-2022
Abstract: The authors consider the role of institutional relationships in providing an exhibition as a launching platform for emerging artists to develop their careers, as well as contributing to the broader creative economy. The authors view this as an entrepreneurial intervention in challenging the status quo through its potential to stimulate artist career development. Data were collected using a case study approach in order to understand the complex inter-relationships between stakeholders of an emerging artists' exhibition at a well-known art institution. A total of 26 interviews were held with a selection of the exhibiting artists, artists from previous years' exhibitions, institution staff, the exhibition selection panel and major prize givers. The main relationship value created by the institution as perceived by the exhibiting artists was high-level publicity and exposure of their work. Related benefits such as the potential to build career-enhancing networks were also emphasised. Some of the artists interviewed were aware of the art market structure and how they could create and sustain value within it. Others expressed a lack of awareness of and interest in its operationalisation where more assistance from the institution could help. This research focussed on the institutional relationships relating to one organisation, albeit one which leads the way in terms of helping to accelerate emerging artist careers. However, best practice lessons emerge from the research in terms of informing similar institutions elsewhere. The authors move beyond quantitative measurement of cultural value activities in developing in-depth qualitative insight into these relationships so that more nuanced understanding is revealed. There is a need to develop pathways to assist new graduates and for a more strategic focus by art institutions to help develop their careers by creating and sustaining impact and engagement in the marketplace. This will be of interest to policy makers in helping to shape programmes of assistance in the future beyond the art institution. The authors also uncover broader cultural value impacts beyond the exhibition site where these institutional relationships can contribute positively to health and well-being. The exhibition is one of only a very limited number of similar events throughout the UK and can be viewed as a successful entrepreneurial intervention.
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: Mexico
Start Date: 2014
End Date: 2014
Funder: Arts and Humanities Research Council
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