ABSTRACT
This chapter draws attention to the need for better research and for a coordinated effort in meta-research for assessment of Cultural Management Research (CMR) methods and analysis, which would have value for CM researchers, cultural managers, policy actors, and others wanting to understand the field of cultural management and its effects. There are certain features of cultural management however, that make it particularly vulnerable. Cultural policy researcher Eleonora Belfiore, for example, points out that from "the very beginning of politician's renewed interest for the social impact of the arts, the question of evidence has been a delicate one". Although many arts management and cultural management master's programs include research methods among required courses, the development is recent and does not include all such degree programs, and few lead to training at the PhD level. Cultural management is a rather small field; the volume of literature is both sparse and narrow.
