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Small organization mergers in arts and humanities
Author(s) -
Toepler Stefan,
Seitchek Cara,
Cameron Theresa
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
nonprofit management and leadership
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.844
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1542-7854
pISSN - 1048-6682
DOI - 10.1002/nml.55
Subject(s) - the arts , commission , mount , service (business) , public relations , political science , public service , sociology , public administration , business , marketing , law , engineering , mechanical engineering
This chapter discusses a case study of the merger between two relatively small organizations: a local nonprofit arts council and a public county‐level humanities commission. As this case deviates from other merger analyses that tend to focus on larger health and social service agencies, the chapter examines how well key findings of the nonprofit merger literature apply to mergers of organizations of smaller size and in other fields. Generally, we find that the merger literature so far provides sufficient guidance for nonprofit managers in fields such as the arts, where merger pressures have only now begun to mount.