Research Article
Imposed leadership in UK funded theatre and the implications for risk and innovation
Zusammenfassung
Using the theory of stakeholder salience and stakeholder discourse, this article questions the effect of arts policy bodies on the way the cultural sector assigns leadership. It argues that in satisfying the demands of risk-averse public management, arts policy bodies implicitly and explicitly impose the role of sectoral leader on the heads of largest best-funded cultural organisations. As a result, opportunities for alternate forms of leadership to emerge outside organisations are restricted. It renders organisational leaders in conflicting obligations to multiple stakeholders – their funders, their organisations and their sector – and exposes implicit perceptions of value. Finally, in reinforcing existing organisational structures, imposed leadership inhibits the risk- taking and innovation these same arts policy bodies promote in their strategies. This prevents the emergence of more transgressive forms of leadership and innovative cultural production and affects the ability of artists to be perceived as leaders. Consequently, artists’ sectoral and policy influence is diminished and their precarity and inequality reinforced at a structural level. While focused on subsidised theatre in the UK, this research offers wider implications for how we understand policy influence on ethical leadership behaviours in the cultural sector.
Schlagworte
2019 (1)
Cultural Leadership
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Schlagworte
- Advocacy
- advocacy / Lobby
- aesthetic
- Art field
- artistic reputation
- Artistic Research
- Artists / Künstler
- arts administration
- arts management
- arts management / Kulturverwaltung
- Arts organizations
- Ästhetik
- Ausbildung
- Außenkulturpolitik
- Beruf
- Beruf, Rolle
- Besucherforschung
- Betrieb
- career / Karriere
- Community Arts
- Creative Industries
- creativity
- Cultural Diplomacy
- cultural economy
- cultural education
- cultural history / Kulturgeschichte; arts organizations / Kulturorganisation; cultural policy / Kulturpolitik; literature / Literatur; state / Staat
- cultural organizations
- Cultural Policy
- cultural policy / Kulturpolitik
- cultural production / Kulturproduktion
- cultural science
- culture
- Curating
- Democracy
- Demokratie
- development
- Digitalisierung
- digitalization
- Diversität
- Diversität / diversity
- Empirische Ästhetik
- Entrepreneurship
- Entwicklungsprozesse
- Entwicklungsprozesse / development or transformation
- Ethik
- Ethik / ethics
- Evaluation
- Feldtheorie
- Festival
- field theory
- Film
- Financing the Arts
- Gemeinschaftliche kunst
- Gesellschaftlicher Wandel
- Gesellschaftlicher Wandel / social change
- higher education / akademische Ausbildung
- Ideologie
- Ideology
- Inszenieren
- Kommunikation
- Konzert
- Kreativität
- Kultur
- Kulturbetrieb
- Kulturfinanzierung
- Kulturfinanzierung / financing the arts
- Kulturgeschichte
- Kulturökonomie
- Kulturpädagogik
- Kulturpolitik
- Kulturpolitik /cultural policy
- Kultursoziologie
- Kulturvermittlung
- Kulturverwaltung
- Kulturwirtschaft
- Kulturwissenschaft
- Kunst
- Kunst / art
- Kunstfeld
- Kunstforschung
- Künstler / artists
- Künstler und Künstlerinnen / artists
- künstlerische Reputation
- Kuratieren
- Künstler*innen
- Leadership
- Management
- Marketing
- Markt
- media
- Medien
- Methoden-entwicklung / methods development
- Methodenentwicklung
- Monumentalisieren
- Monumentalising
- Museum
- Musik
- Oper
- Orchester
- Organisation
- political expression
- politischer Ausdruck
- Post-truth politics
- Postfaktische Politik
- professional role
- professional role / Professionalität
- Recht
- Rolle
- Rolle / career
- Social Change
- social change / sozialer Wandel
- Social Cohesion
- socially engaged art
- Sozial Engagierte Kunst
- Sozialer Zusammenhalt
- Soziokultur
- Staat
- Stadt
- symbolic kapital
- symbolisches Kapital
- Tanz
- Tanz / dance
- Theater
- Theatre
- Theorieentwicklung
- theory developement
- Tourismus
- Transformation
- transformation / Entwicklungsprozesse
- Zivilgesellschaft, Dritter Sektor