Doing (and Using) Research in Arts and Cultural Management

Russell Belk is York University Distinguished Research Professor and Kraft Foods Canada Chair in Marketing at Schulich School of Business, York University. His research involves the extended self, the arts, collecting, gift-giving, sharing, digital consumption, and materialism. He is primarily qualitative and often conceptual, visual, and cultural. He has over 800 publications; in 2012 a 10-volume subset was published in Sage's Legends in Consumer Behavior series. In 2023 he received an honorary doctorate with festschrift from Universite de Reims. He co-initiated the Consumer Behavior Odyssey, the ACR Film Festival, and the Consumer Culture Theory Conference.

Francois Colbert has been active in the field of arts and culture for over 50 years, particularly in the performing arts, museum, and film sectors. He has given numerous training and professional development seminars in arts management, with a focus on the field of marketing management in a cultural context. He is professor of marketing and holder of the Carmelle and Remi Marcoux Chair in Arts Management at HEC Montreal. He founded the AIMAC Conference and the International Journal of Arts Management. He is the codirector of the Master of Management in International Arts Management and author of the book Marketing Culture and the Arts published in 16 languages.

Danilo C. Dantas is Professor of Marketing at HEC Montreal, Canada, where he serves as the pedagogical director of the Professional Master's and Graduate Diploma in Management of Cultural Organizations. His research focuses on the marketing of music, employing various research methods. His work has been published in the European Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Interactive Marketing, the International Journal of Arts Management, and the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, among others. He is also the co-chair of AIMAC, the International Association of Arts and Culture Management.

Ruth Rentschler OAM is Professor of Arts and Cultural Leadership, UniSA Business, Adelaide, Australia. Her research entails creative topics focusing on inclusion and diversity. Ruth's work is often qualitative, with particular interest in unique longitudinal secondary data sets, the self and others, and more recently film and the digital world. She has designed and taught research methods at PhD level in numerous universities around the world. Ruth has received national and international awards for her contributions to arts and cultural management and higher education. She is widely published, including her most recent book, Routledge Companion to Governance in the Arts World (Rentschler, Reid & Donelli, Routledge, Eds., 2025).

Jennifer Wiggins is Professor of Marketing and Entrepreneurship at Kent State University, Ohio, USA, and Co-Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Arts Management. Her research on consumer willingness to donate, willingness to pay for arts experiences, and willingness to support new creative and social ventures has been published in top journals in marketing, entrepreneurship, and arts management. Her methodological expertise is in experimental design and measurement. She has mentored over two dozen doctoral students and teaches philosophy of science, theory development, and research methods at the doctoral level.