Professionalizing Arts Management in Healthcare Facilities

An urgent need exists for trained specialists to manage organizational policies and practices involving arts programs and activities in healthcare facilities. This article introduces the field of arts in health and argues for what is currently needed within the academic and professional field of arts management to advance this emerging arena of arts management theory and practice. The authors integrate key references from existing scholarship alongside additional survey data to offer recommendations for developing professional management of the arts in healthcare facilities like hospitals, hospices, and long-term care centers. The article provides an overview of the responsibilities of arts managers in healthcare institutions, as well as insight into the knowledge, competencies, and skills that arts managers require to effectively work in these settings. The article concludes with articulating a conceptual framework for a long-term research trajectory to inform further advancement of this distinct sub-field of arts management.     

Collaborative Leadership in the Arts as a Unique Form of Dual Leadership

This article examines dual leadership in Australian performing arts companies, reflected in the respective roles of artistic directors and general managers. Our findings challenge assumptions underpinning much of the literature on dual leadership; in particular, the assumption that conflict is inevitable between the two leaders. In our research, we identified dual leadership relationships that might more accurately be described as instances of collaborative leadership. We suggest that one explanation for this presence of collaborative leadership may be that the study found similarities in both leaders’ passion for the arts, often reflected in a shared background in an arts practice.     

Understanding and Measuring Consumption Motives in the Performing Arts

Currently, there is no common understanding of categorizing, conceptualizing, and measuring consumption motives in the performing arts. Study one presents the results of forty-seven semi-structured, in-depth interviews and deepens the understanding of consumption motives. A new framework consisting of cultural and social motives is introduced. This framework is tested in the second study. Here, a quantitative instrument is developed. The results of the principal components analysis refine the framework and demonstrate the following consumption motives: cultural aesthetics (with two dimensions: artistic value and enjoyment of beauty), cultural relaxation, cultural stimulation, social bonding, social attraction, social distinction, and social duty.     

内部控制制度与经济犯罪的信息经济学分析

在现代组织中广泛存在的委托代理关系可能诱发经济犯罪的产生,而内部控制制度因其自身特点可以监督和约束代理人的行为而抑制经济犯罪的发生。根据内部控制制度的目标要素和实施标准,从信息经济学角度分析,内部控制制度与经济犯罪有必然的因果联系,对症下药,要完善内部控制制度。     

著作权的法经济分析范式——兼评知识产权利益平衡理论

从法经济分析的角度解释,著作权法是维护创作者与投资者经济上诱因的制度工具,虽然其客体作为无形财产,具有不同于有体财产的特殊性,但该特殊性仅体现在法律构造的具体设计上,而不能推翻法经济分析的基本预设。法经济分析中的事前分析与边际分析,以及对理性人假设与财产权功能的正确定位,都有助于使著作权更好地融入现有成熟的财产权这制度中,而不是仅仅因客体的特殊性而主张将著作权与传统财产权分离。动辄以利益平衡解决著作权法中的问题,不但无法实现平衡目标,还将导致著作权制度在效率上的缺失。     

我国开征碳税的制度经济学视角分析

碳税被国际社会公认为是削减二氧化碳排放的有效的经济手段之一,目前我国正在尝试开征碳税,本文从制度经济学视角来分析碳税及其开征的必要性,尝试提出开征碳税的正式规则和非正式规则两种制度设计。     

对政府微博的思考

政府微博为政府和民众之间沟通交流提供了平台,创新了党和政府的执政理念,丰富了社会管理的主体,提升了政府管理社会的效能,展示了政府良好的执政形象。在政府微博运行过程中,必须直面诸如信息流控制、如何常用常新、避免形式主义等问题,只有解决好信息监管、网上互动、语言艺术等问题,才能更好地发挥政府微博在社会管理中的作用。     

Juristischer Diskurs und Rechtsökonomie

Dieser Beitrag soll zeigen, dass die Rechtswissenschaft ihren Gegenstand sinnvoll erweitern kann bzw eine bereits vollzogene Erweiterung anerkennen sollte. Die Rechtsökonomie bietet einerseits ein analytisches Instrumentarium für rechtspolitische Erwägungen, andererseits lässt sich mit ihrer Hilfe untersuchen, ob eine Auslegung überhaupt geeignet ist, einen bestimmten Zweck zu erreichen. Dabei wird in Erinnerung gerufen, dass eine Unterscheidung zwischen Rechtspolitik und Rechtsdogmatik nicht eindeutig möglich ist. Die rechtsökonomische Methode erzwingt die Offenlegung solcher "nicht-juristischer" Entscheidungsgründe und fördert damit Transparenz in der Diskussion. Durch eine länderübergreifende Sprache kann sie auch einen Beitrag dazu leisten, Missverständnisse zwischen verschiedenen europäischen Rechtsordnungen zu entschärfen, die auf national geprägten Vorverständnissen beruhen und eine Harmonisierung erheblich erschweren.     

Make or buy on the Russian railway? Coase,Williamson, and Tsar Nicholas II

There is a growing consensus among economists that the most procompetitive strategy for restructuring public utility enterprises includes complete vertical separation of the network or grid portion of a sector from other parts of the sector where competition is to be created. Although exceptions to this rule are readily granted, it is generally considered that any alternative strategy may pay a high cost in terms of discriminatory access to the grid by non-integrated entrants into the new competitive sector. This consensus is somewhat surprising in light of the simultaneous growth of transactions cost economics, with its emphasis on the benefits of close vertical relationships—including vertical integration—in the face of complexity, unforeseeable contingencies, and problems with contract law enforcement. These issues are considered in the context of a Russian railways restructuring plan which may, or may not, involve complete vertical separation.

论医疗责任保险——从法律经济学的角度切入

医疗责任保险是从国外引入的一种制度,目的之初在于,将医师的过错责任诱发的巨大风险社会化,以期医师安心于治理病患,而病患通过保险获得相应的保险费用保障自身的权益,缓和较为尖锐的医患关系和社会矛盾。但医疗责任保险发展的现实情况却是极其不理想的,学界对于医疗责任改革已有基本共识,具体设计上却甚少有人提出更为细致的建议。可以从法律经济学这个分析的全新视角,借助成本效益、纳什均衡、博弈的思维进路,以期为医疗责任保险制度的设计另辟蹊径。