1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Governance in the Arts World

498 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

498 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

498 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This research compendium of arts governance brings expert insights from management through the humanities and social sciences to provide a comprehensive global overview of how the field is evolving as the world is in turmoil. Moving beyond the traditional governance focus on boards, the book is structured across a framework that provides five levels of analysis: individual board directors,... Read more

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.