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"The fifth edition of Management and the Arts provides you with theory and practical applications from all arts management perspectives including planning, marketing, finance, economics, organization, staffing, and group dynamics. Regardless of whether you are a manager in a theatre, museum, dance company, or opera, you will gain useful insights into strategic planning, organization, and integrated management theories. Case studies, statistics, and real-world examples will allow you get a handle on all aspects of arts managements, from budgeting and fundraising, to e-marketing and social networking, to working effectively with boards and staff members. Revised to reflect the latest thinking and trends in managing organizations and people, this fifth edition features class-tested questions in each chapter, which help you to integrate the material and develop ideas about how the situations and problems could have been handled. Case studies focus on the challenges facing managers and organizations every day, and "In the News" quotes give you real-world examples of principles and theories. NEW TO THIS EDITION: - Sections on grant research and writing, social networking, and fundraising - Resources for developing career skills, graduate, and postgraduate training opportunities, and information on professional organizations and conferences - Expanded material on volunteers in the arts, more coverage of international perspectives, and more information on integrated software solutions and on budgeting - A companion website at www.managementandthearts.com with a sample syllabus, additional project assignments, suggested resources, and chapter-by-chapter PowerPoint slides"--Provided by publisher.

Arts Leadership: Creating Sustainable Arts Organizations provides a contemporary overview of the field of arts leadership, focused on the performing arts. It examines what these challenges are, how they are affecting the performing arts and arts organizations in general and proposes creative ways to reimagine, build and lead sustainable arts organizations in this uncharted environment. With a global perspective drawn from his extensive experience advising arts organizations around the world and based on his own work successfully leading important performing arts organizations in the United States, Foster proposes an innovative approach to organizational design, systems, and structures for arts leaders in the 21st century that is based in ecological thinking and the creative process that is intrinsic to the arts. --Routledge

This guide to the event industry is packed with expert tips, hints and checklists, and covers all aspects of planning and running event of all kinds. From budgeting, scheduling and promotion, to finding a location, sorting security, health and safety-- you'll learn how to avoid potential problems, and run a successful event.

This co-edited reference book provides valuable information at the intersection of theory and practice in the professional field of executive leadership of performing arts centers. Drawing on the expertise of leading academics, consultants, and executives, this book focuses on institutions and practices in the United States, and is contextualized within additional fields such as cultural planning, urban revitalization, and economic development. --Routledge