Small organization mergers in arts and humanities

✍ Scribed by Stefan Toepler; Cara Seitchek; Theresa Cameron

• Book ID: 102549535
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 127 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1048-6682
• DOI: 10.1002/nml.55

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

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.