Performing Legitimacy

This book is an investigation of the cultural work involved in the social process of achieving and maintaining legitimacy as a not-for-profit arts or media organization in the twenty-first century. Within this work, Larsen advances an approach to studying organizational legitimacy, emanating from within cultural sociology. More specifically, he analyzes the legitimation work done in public service broadcasters in the Scandinavian countries of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.

Advances a cultural approach to the study of organizational legitimacy emanating from within cultural sociology Provides comparative case studies of arts and media organizations in Scandinavia and America Offers readers a conceptual framework for the discussion about the legitimation of public or non-profit organizations

Autorentext
Håkon Larsen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway. He is also a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, USA.

Inhalt

Preface.- Acknowledgement.- 1 A cultural approach to studies of arts and media organizations.- 2 Performing legitimacy as civil opera houses.- 3 Legitimation work in state funded arts organizations.- 4 The crisis of public service broadcasting reconsidered.- 5 The legitimation rhetoric of public service broadcasters.- 6 Dynamics of legitimation work.