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Gray, Clive (2016) Structure, agency and museum policies. Museum & Society, 14 (1). pp. 116-130. ISSN 1479-8360.
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Abstract
This paper reports on the results of recent empirical research on the interaction of structure and agency in the museums sector in England in the context of policy-making within individual museums and galleries. Policy in the museums sector is subject to a large number of political, economic, social and technological pressures and demands that are both externally and internally created: the management of these pressures and demands provides the opportunity for the establishment of multiple responses by the members of individual organizations. The effects of hierarchy, organizational and functional centrality, accountability and professionalism in this process, and the manner in which legitimacy and ideology are employed as central resources by museums staff, are identified. The focus on an under-researched issue allows for an original evaluation of claims and assumptions about what drives the policy choices that are made within museums.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | A General Works > AM Museums (General). Collectors and collecting (General) | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Museums -- Administration -- England, Museums -- Employees -- Interviews, Cultural policy | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Museum & Society | ||||||
| Publisher: | University of Leicester * Department of Museum Studies | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1479-8360 | ||||||
| Official Date: | March 2016 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 14 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 116-130 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 February 2017 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 February 2017 | ||||||
| Funder: | British Academy (BA) | ||||||
| Grant number: | Grant (SG 111848) |
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