"Already dealing with disruptive market forces, the creative and cultural industries (CCIs) faced fundamental challenges resulting from global health crisis, wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic. With catastrophic changes to cultural consumption, cultural organisations are dealing with short, medium...

Contents: Preface (xi) -- Introduction (1) / Ruth Towse and Trilce Navarrete Hernández -- 1 Application of welfare economics to the arts (9) / William J. Baumol -- 2 Art auctions (19) / Orley Ashenfelter and Kathryn Graddy -- 3 Art dealers (29) / Olav Velthuis -- 4 Artificial intelligence (38)...

Purpose: This paper explores the concepts of knowledge-centric organizations in the performing arts sector to understand how specific organizational practices relate to measures of financial and operational performance. Design/methodology/approach: A quantitative analysis of 368 small and...