IJAM Volume 28 Number 1 (PDF)

FROM THE CO-EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

Welcome to another volume of the International Journal of Arts Management.

It has been an exciting year with the launch of our new online submission system. Thank you to all the authors and reviewers who have helped us to test and refine the system during our launch. Remember to submit all manuscripts here: https://revue.hec.ca/index.php/ijam/login and to add 'noreply@revue.hec.ca' to your email contacts to receive notifications and confirmation emails from the system.

We were pleased to co-host the 3rd annual IJAM Paper Development Workshop with the Journal of Philanthropy this summer. Participants explored best practices in cross-disciplinary research, discussed current findings on philanthropy in the arts, and built network connections while developing new research ideas for future publication.

We would also like to congratulate the winners of this year’s IJAM awards. Renaud Legoux of HEC Montreal, a long-time member of our editorial board, is the 2025 Reviewer of the Year, and Elisa Salvador, Jean-Paul Simon, and Pierre-Jean Benghozi have won the 2025 IJAM Most Cited Award for their paper, “Facing Disruption: The Cinema Value Chain in the Digital Age.”

We open this year with an interesting set of articles for the Fall 2025 issue.

In this issue’s Editors’ Choice article, Dongwook Kim, Sharon Alvarez, and Asli Arikan examine the impact of an organization’s initial focus on creative product development versus downstream commercialization on long-term financial performance in the context of the video game industry. 

This issue also features the AIMAC 2024 Best Doctoral Student Paper. PhD candidate Tracy Margieson, along with Lucy Taksa, Anne Kershaw, and Hilary Glow, present an analysis of the changing role of the artistic director in the performing arts through the lens of sensemaking.

In the remaining Academic Research articles, Yongzhong Yang, Shihui Li, and Qiaochu Ji experimentally test the art infusion effect in the context of Chinese intangible cultural heritage art, Li-Min Lin and Yi Lin examine intellectual property rights and copyright law through a case study in China, Angela Besana models the financial impact of the COVID-19 digital transformation on Italian performing arts organizations, and Charlotte De Sainte Maresville and Christine Petr experimentally analyze the role of facial emotions as indicators of engagement in predicting intention to visit museums.

In this issue’s Practitioner Perspectives article, Raquel Jimenez explores the phenomenon of community art courses offered by preprofessional schools to understand the effectiveness of these programs in preparing graduates to succeed in their careers as professional musicians.

Finally, this issue’s Case Study by Ni Wayan Ardini, I Nyoman Cahyadi Wijaya, I Ketut Astawa, I Gede Mudana, and Derinta Entas traces the transformation of Kuta, Bali, Indonesia from a traditional village into an iconic tourist destination, focusing on the impact of this shift on traditional Balinese music.

We are also excited by the strong response to our most recent call for papers for our upcoming special issue on Art as Investment. Look for more special issue calls coming in the near future!