Empowering strategic priority areas of cultural policy: empirical findings on cultural participation processes in Serbia

Kočović De Santo, Milica and Milovanović Rodić, Danijela and Babović, Dunja and Kuzma, Inga (2022) Empowering strategic priority areas of cultural policy: empirical findings on cultural participation processes in Serbia. Strategic management: international Journal of Strategic Management and Decision Support Systems in Strategic Management. ISSN 2334-6191

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Abstract

Background: The background of this research encompasses contemporary cultural policy issues and their factors of influence, with a special focus on cultural participation processes. The sphere of culture provides the fundamental base for reading and changing the paradigmatic pathst hrough the contents and acts of formal and informal stakeholders. Culture is deeply interlinked with other departments of the entire economy by connections with feedback loops. The impacts of culture on the socio-economic and natural environment, as the"fourth pillar" of sustainable development, are recognized on the international level by theory, expert groups, and practice. Purpose:The purposeof this paper is to bring about a deeper understanding of participatory processes and their importance for strategic priority areas of cultural policy development.Study design/methodology/approach:Our study design included institutional analysis, starting from the regulatory framework that reflects cultural policy and its strategic goals, by involving previous relevant theoretical research including the ICET model.Another objective of the paper is to answera range of questions.What are participation processes' main characteristics and challenges in culture and cultural policy development?Is there a relationship between these challenges? How to achieve desirable cultural and institutional integrative transformations in order to accomplish the strategic priority areas of cultural policy?Webring the conclusions based on theoretic and empirical overview of new empirical research findings based on the survey conducted in 2022 for the need of EPICA research project Findings/conclusions:The findingsofthis researchleadus to recognition, conceptualization and understanding ofthe existing participatory processes in culture, towards inspiring the future modelling of more integrative strategic and systemic solutions to reflect desirable and harmonized development.Limitations/future research: The limitations of research reflect future endeavourto contribute to reforming the field of culture (by formal and informal means) through more robust horizontal integration with other departments, to achieve sustainable and coherent effects through linking strategies, new forms of participation, decentralization, arm's length principle, and degrowth policy.

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