Publications

Jung, Y., Vakharia, N., & Vecco, M. (Eds.). (2024). The Oxford Handbook of Arts& Cultural Management. Oxford University Press.

Vakharia, N. (2024). Knowledge Management in Arts and Cultural Organizations: A Conceptual Framework for Organizational Performance. In Y. Jung, N. Vakharia, & M. Vecco (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Arts & Cultural Management., Oxford university Press.

Vakharia, N. & Poole, A.H. (2023). Knowledge management in museums: enhancing organizational performance and public value. Journal of Documentation, 79(5).

Vakharia, N., & Poole, A.H. (2023). Enabling Knowledge Management Practices in Museums: The benefits of and Barriers to Achieving Public Value. In: Sserwanga, I., et al. Information for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13972. Springer.

Rosentstein, C., Kim, M., & Vakharia, N. (2023). Living Cultural Heritage and the Traditional and Folk Arts in the Nonprofit Sector: Data on Scope, Finances, and Funding. Journal of American Folklore, 136 (542).

Rosentstein, C., Kim, M., & Vakharia, N. (2023). Inequities Built into the Arts and Cultural Data Infrastructure and Avenues of Redress: Insights from Two Recent Studies. In: J. Woronkowicz & D. Noonan (Eds.), Institutions and Inequities in the Arts. Palgrave McMillan, in press.

Jung, Y., & Vakharia, N., (2019). Open Systems Theory for Arts and Cultural Organizations: Linking Structure and Performance, The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, 49(4).

Vakharia, N., Vecco, M., Srakar, A., & Janardhan, D. (2018). Knowledge centricity and organizational performance: An empirical study of the performing arts. Journal of Knowledge Management, 22(5), 1124-1152

Vakharia, N., (2017). Mapping the museum universe: A systems approach. In Y. Jung and A. Love (Eds.), Systems Thinking in Museums: Theory and Practice, Summit, PA: Rowman & Littlefield.

Vakharia, N., & Janardhan, D. (2017). Knowledge-centric arts organizations: Connecting practice to performance. International Journal of Arts Management, 19(2), 14-31.

Hawkins, J. G., Vakharia, N., Zitcer, A., & Brody, J. (2017). Positioning for the future: Curriculum revision in a legacy arts administration program. The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, 47(1), 64-76.

Zitcer, A., Hawkins, J., & Vakharia, N. (2017, February 22) The Arts as fundamental—and fragile—in community life”, Metropolitics, URL: http://www.metropolitiques.eu/The-Artsas-Fundamental-and.html.

Vakharia, N., Vecco, M., Srakar, A., & Janardhan, D. (2016). Knowledge-centric arts organizations and financial performance: An empirical study. Proceedings of the European Group for Organization Studies, Naples, Italy.

Vakharia, N. (2016). Perspectives on arts entrepreneurship: Knowledge centricity and the artist entrepreneur.” Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts, 5(2), 3-6.

Vakharia, N., Vecco, M., Srakar, A., & Janardhan, D. (2016). Knowledge-centric practices of performing arts organizations: New directions for organizational resilience.” Association for Cultural Economics International, Working Paper AWP-7-2016.

Vakharia, N. & DiLossi, K. (2016). Creating space: Performing artists in sacred spaces. GIA Reader, 27(2), 35-40.

Zitcer, A., Hawkins, J., & Vakharia, N. (2016). A capabilities approach to arts and culture? Theorizing community development in West Philadelphia. Planning Theory & Practice, 17(1), 35-51.

(Nominated for AESOP Best Published Paper Prize)

Vakharia, N. & Janardhan, D. (2015). The knowledge-centric arts organization: Connecting practice to performance.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Arts & Cultural Management, Aix-en-Provence, France.

(Named top-three strategic management paper by scientific committee)

Vakharia, N. (2015)*. [Review of the book Performing policy: how Contemporary Politics and Cultural Programs Redefined U.S. Artists for the 21st Century by P. Bonin-Rodriguez]. Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts, 4(1), 49-52.

Vakharia, N. & Janardhan, D. (2014). Towards a knowledge-centric arts organization. American Journal of Arts Management. 1(4).

Vakharia, N. (2013). The knowledge-centric arts organization: A critical role for grantmakers. GIA Reader, 24(3), 5-9.

Vakharia, N. & Janardhan, D. (2013). The knowledge-centric arts organization: Practices, processes, and the path forward.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Arts & Cultural Management, Bogotá, Columbia: 686-697.