The Identity and Self-Perception of Artists-Managers
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2021-03
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LLC “Consulting Publishing Company “Business Perspectives”
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The aim of the article is to define the characteristics of the artists-managers’ identity. The qualitative research was conducted in the form of in-depth interviews with key informants from international environment (Africa, Europe, North America), who are or were both artists and managers in their professional life. Research questions were: What are the differences and the common characteristics between the artist’s and the manager’s identities? Do artists-managers have their own identity? Do artists-managers experience identity tensions and paradoxical thinking? Is being an artist an added value to the manager's role? What are the similarities and differences between artist-manager’s identity and self-perception by an artist-manager? The practical objective was to verify common and contradicted features of the artist’s and the manager’s identities among artists-managers to understand the possibilities of reducing the intra-psychic tensions and ways of fruitful paradoxical thinking among managers and their negative consequences for personalities and organisations. Motivation to deal with the problem was our previous research about crossing the borders of art and management and defining basic types of artists-managers identities by applying aesthetical theories into management area. Our own experience in the fields of art and management was the main argument for combining these areas with benefits to the theory and practice of management and creativity.
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Szostak, M. and Sułkowski, Ł. (2021) ‘The Identity and Self-Perception of Artists-Managers’, Problems and Perspectives in Management, 19(1), pp. 372–386. doi: 10.21511/ppm.19(1).2021.32.