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This research explores the influence that leading arts management journals have, beyond their specific multidisciplinary arts and culture focus, on arts management/marketing articles published in general management and marketing journals. It evaluates related implications for the evolution of thought and development of the arts and culture sector and answers the research question: Has the research published in arts management and marketing journals since 1987 influenced research published on arts management in mainstream marketing and management journals?
Despite growth of the arts management/marketing field since the first arts management programmes appeared in the 1970s, little analysis has been done to explore the development of the field. It is important to identify and examine the most influential journals that have shaped the evolution of the field, as those involved in producing them provide thought leadership and methodological contributions to our understanding of management and the arts. They serve as both gatekeepers and facilitators in their roles as reviewers, editorial board members and editors ([13] Podsakoff et al. , 2002). This research seeks to fill that gap and answers the calls of other researchers for in-depth analysis of arts management/marketing research, such as that of [5] Fillis (2011) for development of an understanding of the impact of arts marketing on marketing in general. It is the first study to focus on the examination of the domain of arts/culture-related management/marketing literature, examining it both in the aggregate and as a sub-discipline of management/marketing.
This study extends previous research on the assessment of arts management and marketing literature published in arts management journals ([17] Rentschler and Shilbury, 2008). That study published the first internationally accepted ratings in the field of arts management, and this work has been instrumental in shaping the field in terms of inclusion of previously unranked journals on international web sites of universities. It established arts management journal ratings, which was an important first step in assessing perceived journal quality, since journal ranking is one of the most used proxies for research quality. Other important proxies for journal quality are citation and impact factors, which are, in essence, measures of an article's usage. This research begins longitudinal assessment of arts management/marketing journals of those factors.
In undertaking the current study, we define the term...