Strategic Cultural Center Management
Tomas Jarvinen
- 170 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Strategic Cultural Center Management
Tomas Jarvinen
About This Book
Strategic Cultural Center Management focuses on private cultural centers and their operational preconditions. The aim is to illustrate how to strategically manage a cultural center in varied external environments.
Analysing processes of organizational change, the author uses institutional and resource dependence theories alongside concepts such as business models, profitability, mission focus and quality management. The book examines theoretical and managerial implications, highlighting that cultural managers lean towards different strategies that diversify resource streams, facilitating agile strategic responses to institutional pressures.
Offering valuable theoretical, empirical and conceptual analysis, this book serves as an incomparable reference for researchers, postgraduate students, civic leaders and arts managers involved in the creative and cultural industries.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- 1 Introduction to cultural centers
- 2 Research on cultural center management
- 3 Cultural center business models
- 4 The business of art or the art of business?
- 5 Institutional pressures and cultural center management
- 6 Resource dependence and strategic cultural center management
- 7 Mission focus and resource strategy management in cultural centers
- 8 Quality and profitable cultural centers
- 9 Conclusions
- Appendix
- Index