Managing Arts in Times of Pandemics and Beyond

Description

This book seeks to approach arts organizations in India and abroad from a management perspective, against the backdrop of COVID-19 and in the light of the advances made by digital technologies such as blockchains. It follows a case-based approach by taking a closer look at eight arts organizations drawn from USA, Canada, Japan, India, and Russia. A special chapter is devoted to the cultural and arts policies of India, USA, Japan, Canada, and Russia. The chapter on economics seeks to apply the principles of managerial economics to arts organisations. Also discussed is a methodological approach for classifying arts organizations in terms of their organizational processes. The book can be of immense utility to both serving and prospective managers of arts organizations.

About the author:

Professor Damodaran began his career as a policy maker with the Government of India and switched to academics in 2001. He worked as Professor at Indian Institute of Plantation Management, Bangalore and switched to Indian Institute of Management as Professor in 2005. He has held academic assignments with the United Nations University in Japan, the Wageningen University (2006), The Netherlands, University of Bonn in Germany (2003). He was an Obama - Singh Scholar in Residence at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, USA in 2015. He has also taught in St Petersburg University in Russia during 2009-12.

Table of contents

Chapter 1 The Shape of Things to come

Chapter 2 Aesthetics, Art Organizations and Managers

Chapter 3 A Normative View of Arts Policies

Chapter 4   Design of Arts Organizations

Chapter 5   Animating the Inanimate: Museums and Biennales

Chapter 6   Theatres

Chapter 7   Economics of the Unique

Chapter 8   The Future of Arts Organizations: COVID 19 and Beyond