ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses and conceptualizes the management of arts festivals, and focuses on the networked production of arts festivals. It aims to capture the dimensions of meanings (DOMs) and to analyse how varied DOMs are reflected in managerial practices and decision-making. The chapter discusses the festival as a product and briefly exemplifies a framework for evaluating its produced networks. It defines the network of festivals and the network of DOMs, and discusses managerial aspects by emphasising the essential characteristics of network management in festival context. The chapter provides a conceptual basis for analysing the management of festival networks and DOMs. The conceptual basis of the chapter is that festivals can be defined as a multifaceted platform for value co-creation that enables the exchange of the varied cultural, social and economic meanings attached to them as a reflection of their legitimacy.
