ABSTRACT
Leadership understandings and structures differ in different cultures and this has an impact in terms of both arts leadership and arts practice. Exploring different cultures and cultural framings in relation to arts leadership is critical for seeing how cultural difference influences both practices and potential outcomes. Shifting the discussion to one that is more focused on connecting leadership and culture invites consideration of several studies that theorize how culture impacts on leadership, and how culture is both practiced and understood. While the focus here is not specifically about the context of the arts, the impact of the research has many ramifications in terms of arts practice and arts leadership. The practice of cultural policy can be seen simply as the manner in which a government provides arts funding or it can be seen as embracing every aspect of culture that a government might engage in.
