From sharing money to sharing leadership
Changing role of government in managing symphony orchestras in Finland
Abstrakti
Our paper focuses on describing and analysing symphony orchestra management in Finland. We are interested to investigate how
professional Finnish symphony orchestras have
faced the role of government and how they
construct the organization-environment relationships in a changing context. Our study points
out that symphony orchestra management is
constructed in different ways based on a variety
of values and orientations of multiple actors.
The actors have different interpretations of the
economy of the orchestra, of the environment
and of the orchestra's mission and quality of
music. We conclude to two models of orchestra
management: Local Dynamism and Global Continuity and discuss their implications to the institutional theory.
