Arts Management: A Sociological Inquiry

[...] persons with practical experience in any business might be competent enough to maintain leading positions as arts managers in all cultural organizations. The underlying epistemology overlooked the fact that the framework of research, i.e., the various practices of scientific work, the norms of the scientific community, and the commitment of individual researchers together constitute particular national or other collective styles of thought, different sources of cognition, and varying bases of judgment. [...] we recognize that the authors of this issue formulate their ideas and arguments not from value-neutral positions and not from a God's-eye-view upon reality (Hilary Putman), but rather from a position within their own specific academic and artistic fields.