IJAM Volume 27 Number 1 (PDF)

FROM THE CO-EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

It has been an exciting summer for the International Journal of Arts Management. We were delighted to meet so many authors, reviewers, and contributors at the International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management in Lisbon, and to have eighteen participants in the second annual IJAM Paper Development Workshop. The collective five days of interesting discussion and sharing of research has prompted many new ideas and collaborations that we hope will yield new submissions and even new streams of research in the coming year.
We would like to congratulate Boram Lee of the University of South Australia, IJAM’s 2024 Reviewer of the Year. We inaugurated a new award at the conference, the IJAM Most Cited Award, recognizing the IJAM article from five years ago that has received the most citations. The 2024 award was presented to Francesco Zanibellato, Umberto Rosin, and Francesco Casarin of Ca’ Foscari University for their paper “How the Attributes of a Museum Experience Influence Electronic Word-of-Mouth Valence: An Analysis of Online Museum Reviews.” Finally, we also awarded a special one-time “Most Cited Article of All Time” award to François Colbert, our founding editor, for his 2003 article “Entrepreneurship and Leadership in Marketing the Arts.”
And with that, we begin again. The Fall 2024 issue of IJAM features six articles, including four academic research papers, a practitioner perspectives article, and a case study.
This issue’s Editors’ Choice article, by Florence Euzéby, Juliette Passebois-Ducros, and Sarah Machat, explores the impact of influencers on the consumption behavior of book readers. The context of literature and book consumption is relatively underexplored in arts management research, and the impact of online influencers as gatekeepers for arts consumption deserves more attention and research by arts management scholars.
The theme of external influencers continues throughout the Academic Research articles, with Claire D. Nicholls examining the impact of the performance space on audience engagement, Dominique Bourgeon-Renault, Joëlle Lagier, and Rémi Bréhonnet considering how artist-brand collaborations play a role in perceived artist authenticity, and Trude Høgvold Olsen and Elsa Solstad analyzing the institutional logics that surround the board of directors’ influence on arts organizations.
In this issue’s Practitioner Perspectives article, Ariel Fristoe and Wesley Longacre tell the story of how Out of Hand Theater in Atlanta, Georgia USA incorporates conversations and collaborations around social justice to revitalize the theater and increase its community impact. Finally, this issue’s Case Study examines the dilemma facing an arts organization when a corporate sponsorship is threatened by consumer protests against the corporate partner.
A reminder that we will be formally launching our new online submission system this fall. Keep an eye out for the updated submission information to be sent via email. We are also continuing to seek reviewers who want to be part of the IJAM process, along with participants in our IJAM PhD Reviewer Mentorship Program. Reach out to ijam@hec.ca if you are interested.
We wish you a pleasant and productive fall!