2014-09-24

Preview: ReThinking Management 2014

ReThinking Management with this claim the Karlshochschule International University is again hosting a conference on October 16th and 17th in Karlsruhe, Germany. Its aim is not merely to discuss new tools or strategies of classical management and economic approaches but rather to have a look at the impact of cultural turns. This includes the influence of concepts of the humanities and social sciences on an intercultural and interdisciplinary management theory and practice especially in the field of arts and culture.
The most important cultural and social turns today is globalization and as a consequence thereof a new plurality of employees and audiences, new markets and new concurrences as well as innovative cooperation opportunities for cultural institutions. All these aspects are represented in different concepts and topics of the cultural sciences such as performance, materiality, embodiment, space, mediality or narration. They do offer a lot of potential for the field of management beyond rational-objectivist principles. To develop more efficient and sustainable ways of management thinking and performing applied management, new ways of creative thinking are central as well.

To improve such cultural and artistical aspects for the management of cultural institutions further on, the spectrum of ReThinking Management ranges from practical examples and the presentation of research results to the discussion of methods of classical management. All of them conceive management not as a sub-discipline of economic sciences but rather as an inter- and trans-disciplinary field. Thus, the range of ReThinking Management allows a panoramic view of the current developments of a globalized management and a variety of networking opportunities.

Especially for the field of cultural and arts management, interesting presentations in the program of Rethinking Management are:

  • Johan Kolsteeg, Understanding complex practice in cultural and creative contexts. Here, on a basis of a research project, strategic practice in non-profit cultural organisations and for-profit creative companies will be reflected. The research aimed to acquire an in-depth understanding of how organisational actors realise strategic action in daily practice in relation to finding a balance between artistic and economic interests of the organisation.
  • Tobias Klingemayer, The impact of the spatial turn on management studies. The purpose of this examination is to explore the impact of the spatial turn on management. Therefore, notions of space as object of cognition, as metaphor and as tool as well as architecture, design or organizational change and power structures form the framework of this analysis.
  • Doris Bachmann-Medick, "Cultural Turns - A Matter of Management?" In recent years a whole chain of cultural turns had a considerable impact on the humanities and social sciences. The presentations tries to find answers to the question of how much potential these cultural turns unfold for inspiring management.
  • Dagmar Abfalter, The Leading Conductor The Leadership Concept between Management and Cultural Sciences. Leadership research tends to neglect important aspects of practice, such as aesthetics, linguistics and embodiment the more, as management teaching is frequently focused on best practices which often means an abstract reduction of complexity. Leaders are reduced to their cognitive abilities, rationality and social procedures. The presentation will use the example of the orchestra conductor to investigate the interfaces and overlaps between artistic and managerial practice, performance and performativity and audience.
  • Siglinde Lang. (Arts) Management and its role in encouraging cultural production. The talk will show which cultural management processes are able to initiate and professionally coordinate cultural meaning production as a collaborative process in which perspectives and attitudes are generated, gathered, and distributed in a public circulation process. In this context, a special communication (management) model will be introduced. It shows that a new understanding of communication management carried out by arts managers is necessary for initiating and professionally guiding processes among diverse interests.
  • Silke Schmidt, Managing Culture: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Narrative Turn in Business Consulting. A so-called culture of success is what most managers today seek to establish because corporate culture is an important determinant of success and, in turn, success is reflected in a vivid and innovative corporate culture. Thus, the presentation will show that the narratives of the people in organizations tell the management which tools there are to change corporate culture and with it corporate success.
The range of topics of ReThinking Management addresses a broad range of issues such as sustainability, tolerance, communication and participation in arts organizations. Due to the variety of the program, ReThinking shows a variety of representative examples that allow each cultural stakeholder to find individual and innovative ideas for his or her own business.

The editorial team of Artsmanagement Network will be in Karlsruhe as well and present some of the papers and results of the conference in its upcoming newsletter after the conference.

More information and the full program can be found at: http://rethinkingmanagement.org

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