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Executive Editor's Introduction

This issue of The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society explores how scholars, educators, not-for-profit managers, government officials, and legal communities are all grappling with many new challenges arising from forces ranging from increased globalization, rapid technological advances, and shifts in economic, demographic, and other societal patterns. Repercussions have been felt everywhere from audience participation, management practices, educational practices, and government policies. The fact that the political, social, cultural, and economic landscapes in a variety of sectors are all undergoing changes, both locally and globally, is not in dispute. However, how one measures and legislates and creates policies, both private and public, to manage such change are currently under debate and are at the crux of the articles presented within. The first article, “Strategic Decision Making in Arts Organizations,” by David Cray of the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and Loretta Inglis of the Department of Management at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, explores the issue of how, despite the growing economic and cultural importance of artistic institutions, relatively little is known about how aesthetic concerns and the demands of artistic production influence administrative roles. In this article, they investigate the strategic decision-making process in a varied sample of Canadian arts organizations concentrating on the issues that emerge as crucial for the organization and the individuals and groups that participate in the decision-making process. The authors assert that very little work has been completed that applies theories of strategic decision making to organizations in the arts industries. They conclude that overall, the data from their sample of Canadian arts organizations suggests that there are subtle differences in the kinds of topics that are seen by top level managers as strategic. Their hope is that work of this kind will provide a number of guideposts toward understanding both the