How “Small” Are Small Arts Organizations?

A Lesson From an Organic Farm: Cultivating Cultural Policy for Small Arts Organizations

“…(Chang 2010), I pointed out that there is serious lack of studies on SAOs despite their purported significance. As a starting point to provide fair attention to SAOs, I suggested developing and incorporating multiple indicators and variables to recognize the dynamism and diversity of SAOs.…”

A Resource-Oriented Approach to Performing Arts Organizations: An Ethnographic Study of Dance Companies

“…The scholarly discussion on arts organizations in this journal includes the analysis of size and structure (Chang 2010), types of organizations (Kushner 2011;Rushton 2014), strategic decision-making (Cray and Inglis 2011), and organizational change (Peacock 2008), among other topics. In addition, "cultural institutions studies" (Hasitschka, Goldsleger, and Zembylas 2005) examines cultural institutions as organizational settings at the intersection of cultural, social, and economic sciences.…”

“…Whereas small arts organizations operate with smaller constituencies, allowing them to experiment with innovative and sometimes controversial works and to develop more feasible management strategies (Chang 2010), large organizations seem to be less flexible. This is particularly true of continental European performing arts, where large and long-standing organizations are highly subsidized 1 and employ permanent administrative and artistic staff (Eikhof 2014).…”

Organizational Theories in Arts Management Research

“…A host of arts management scholars have also engaged in case studies to analyze cultural organizations such as theaters, opera houses, museums, libraries, archives, festivals, radio-television broadcasting, and nonprofit organizations, among many others. It should be noted that this work has been prolific in its efforts to define and better understand the nature of organizations as they relate to arts managementfrom public (Marzano and Castellini 2018), to private (Arthurs et al 1999), to not-for-profit (Thibodeau and R€ uling 2015), to small (Chang 2010), hybrid (Rushton 2014), and many others. However, theorizing (arts) organizations has never been an important focus in the field.…”