Abstract
This paper deals with the question concerning how the orchestra organizations achieve and maintain their high-quality performance in the concerts, by closely examining the process of their organizational formation. Much research has been done on the orchestra organization recently ? for it may hold a number of clues for our understanding of what management organizations mean today ? but the discussion surrounding the issue has still been controversial.
Here, we begin by defining the fundamental characteristic of orchestra organizations based on the result of our hearing survey conducted on the leading orchestras in Japan.
In particular, we focus on how the following two vectors can be integrated: financial stability (economic value)and the accomplishment of music performance quality as social-artistic groups (noneconomic value).