This study examines the effectiveness of theatrical organizations. It
searches for a pattern of use of effectiveness criteria by different
types of theatres using a multidimensional construct of organiza
tional effectiveness: performance, intraorganizational, and inter
organizational. Research findings show that regardless of type,
theatres do not pursue artistic performance only but place equal
emphasis on intraorganizational and interorganizational compo
nents of effectiveness.
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