1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Governance in the Arts World
Introduction: Enriching the governance field
1. Introductory reflections on arts governance: Progress or prospect?
Ruth Rentschler, Chiara Carolina Donelli and Wendy Reid
2. Seeking legitimacy for arts governance: Definitional challenges and resolutions
Ruth Rentschler, Bianca Araujo and Chiara Carolina Donelli
Part I: Individual directors, power and diversity
3. Arts governance in cultural organizations: Experiences of board members of African descent in the US
antonio c. cuyler
4. Balancing identities: Board members’ dual roles in small, volunteer-operated artistic organisations
Stéphanie Havet-Laurent, Ruth Rentschler and Wendy Reid
5. Abusive leadership in the arts and the crisis of accountability
Melissa Nisbett, Ben Walmsley and Emma McDowell
6. Performing arts governance and the African personality ideology: A focus on Ghana
Amos Darkwa Asare
Part II: Governance, the board-organisation nexus and its accountabilities
7. Practices at the nexus of logics when boards and co-leaders undertake governance work
Hilde Fjellvær and Wendy Reid
8. Accountability and governance in cultural organizations
Paola Dubini and Alberto Monti
9. Nonprofit cultural governance: France versus USA
Anne Gombault, Philippe Ravanas, Bénédicte Jamin and Marek Prokůpek
Part III: Complexity of governance in organisations
10. Who really governs and how: Power, influence, and the role of dominant coalitions in the governance of nonprofit arts organisations
David O. Renz and Fredrik O. Andersson
11. Co-governance of an arts organization and its parallel foundation: A role space shared by two boards
Wendy Reid, Melissa Wilson and Johanne Turbide
12. Cultural governance from an international comparative perspective
Annick Schramme and Ian King
13. Hoisted by their own petard? Dynamics of inclusivity and exclusivity among large nonprofit arts organizations and governance reconsidered
Francie Ostrower
14. Governance complexity in industrial heritage museums
Ekaterina Baskakova, Paolo Ferri and Luca Zan
Part IV: Governance of collaboration in communities and fields
15. From government to governance: Engaging funding stakeholders through collaborative governance
Isabella Mozzoni, Chiara Carolina Donelli, Francesco Badia and Fabio Donato
16. Korean disability arts policy and collaborative governance
Shin-Eui Park, Boram Lee and Ruth Rentschler
17. Collaborative governance approach to sustainable development in local communities: Insights from the managers of US-based arts and culture nonprofits
Alisa V. Moldavanova, Nathaniel S. Wright and Karine Baydoun Ibrahim
18. Resilience in a time of crisis: A piece of the cultural governance puzzle
Julie Bérubé
Part V: Policy environments and cultural governance
19. The fragility of cultural governance: A re-evaluation of the cultural city project in Korea
WoongJo Chang
20. Cultural governance in hybrid regimes: Strategies and models of and for survival: A view from Serbia
Milena Dragićević-Šešić and Milena Stefanović
21. Government as guarantor of artistic freedom? Public governance of the arts in Sweden
Katja Lindqvist
22. Cultural governance as field governance: Interest groups and the transformational work on cultural policy
Verena Teissl and Wendy Reid
23. Cultural observation for cultural governance: Between contemplation and transformation
Maria Lusiani, Fabrizio Panozzo and Andrea Santini
24. Governance of live performing arts: Building strong cultural institutions in developing countries
Gabriel Arjona-Pachon and Jaime Ruiz-Gutierrez
25. Anti-capitalist and decolonised cultural governance
Sunitha Janamohanan
Biography
Ruth Rentschler is Professor of Arts and Cultural Leadership in UniSA Business, University of South Australia.
Wendy Reid is Honorary Professor in Management at HEC Montréal, Canada.
Chiara Carolina Donelli is Assistant Professor at the Venice School of Management at Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Italy.






