Tomas Järvinen is CEO and Principal of Folkhälsan Education, Finland. He holds a PhD in Arts Management (Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki).

1 Introduction to Cultural Centers

1.1 What is a Cultural Center?

1.2 The Jungle of Organizational Types

1.3 Cultural Centers Through an Economic Lens
1.4 Decentralized Organizations

1.5 Conceptual Framework

1.6 Overview of the Study

1.7 Summary and Conclusions

2 Research on Cultural Center Management

2.1 Earlier Studies on Cultural Centers

2.2 Summary and Conclusions

3 Cultural Center Business Models

3.1 What exactly is a Business Model?

3.2 Positioning Cultural Centers in the Landscape of Business Models

3.3 Business Model Innovation among Private Cultural Centers

3.5 Summary and Conclusions

4 The Business of Art or the Art of Business?

4.1 Business and Arts

4.2 Business of Art: Dealing with the Profitability Aspect

4.3 Art of Business: A Pioneer Mindset

4.4 Summary and Conclusions

5 Institutional Pressures and Cultural Center Management

5.1 A Glimpse into Institutional Theory

5.2 Why is Institutional Isomorphism Still Relevant?

5.3 How do the Institutional Pressures Work?

5.4 Institutional Change

5.5 Managing a Cultural Center through the Minefield of Institutional Pressures

5.6 Institutional Pressures According to Center Type

5.7 Summary and Conclusions

6 Resource Dependence and Strategic Cultural Center Management

6.1 Basics of Resource Dependence Theory

6.2 Interdependency, Strategic Options and Power

6.3 The Role of the Environment

6.4 Strategies to Overcome Dependence

6.5 An Overview of Environmental Interdependencies in Cultural Centers

6.6 Resource Dependence: The need for diversified funding

6.7 Environmental interdependencies

6.8 Summary and Conclusions

7 Mission Focus and Resource Strategy Management in Cultural Centers

7.1 Mission focus or mission drift?

7.2 A Cultural Center viewpoint on Mission Drift

7.3 Resource strategy management

7.4 A Quantitative Analysis of Mission Drift in Private Cultural Centers

7.5 Summary and Conclusions

8 Quality and Profitable Cultural Centers

8.1 What is Quality and Quality Management?

8.2 Profitability

8.3 Measurement of both Quality and Profitability in Arts Organizations

8.4 Mixing Quality and Profitability: A Need for Diversified Funding

8.5 Summary and Conclusions

9 Conclusions

9.1 Contributions of this book

9.2 Limitations

9.3 Concluding words