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Chamber Of Commerce Membership: An Explanatory Model Of Member Organizations’ Normative, Continuance And Affective Commitments, Shawn F, Clouse, Simona Stan, Nader H. Shooshtari

Journal of Applied Marketing Theory

Organizations join associations to gain a wide range of benefits, such as advocacy in the local community, more expertise, or access to markets and new technologies. However, these benefits do not always result in readily observable positive outcomes as compared to the monetary costs and time investment for businesses. Such value judgements may result in lower commitment to the association and ultimately dropped memberships. The purpose of this study is to better understand the factors that drive member organizations’ commitment to a chamber of commerce. The results of the empirical study show a positive impact of members’ role expectancies and …

Participative Decisions And Organizational Commitment: A Quantitative Analysis, William H. Sumrall, David W. Cox, D. Adrian Doss, Don W. Jones

Southern Business Review

William (Bill) H. Sumrall, Ed.D., is associate professor of business administration, Memphis campus, Belhaven College, Memphis, TN, 38137.

David W. Cox, Ed.D., is professor of education, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, 72467. D.

Adrian Doss, Ph.D.,is assistant professor of business administration, Memphis campus, Belhaven College, Memphis, TN, 38137.

Don W. Jones, M.B.A., M.Div., is enrollment manager, Memphis campus, Belhaven College, Memphis, TN, 38137.

Recipient, Best Paper Award, 28th Annual Southern Industrial Relations and Human Resource Conference (SIRHRC), Savannah, GA 31401.