Contemporary factors influencing association conference attendance

Cassar, James; Whitfield, Julie; Chapman, Anya

doi:10.1080/15470148.2020.1719948

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“…For instance, Fortin and Ritchie (1977) produced a well-cited seminal study that listed 39 attributes, while Nelson and Rys (2000) measured 31 attributes. More recently, Cassar et al (2020) identified over 140 items. We can see that as investigations into the range of potential factors have become exhaustive, a second stream of researchers have attempted to reduce long lists to more meaningful factors.…”

Section: Attributes Relating To Meeting Attendancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…A further approach to categorize attendance factors for meetings was provided by Ramirez et al (2013) who argued that there are three main drivers of meeting decisionmaking. They refer to these drivers as motivators, facilitators or inhibitors, where Corporate meeting attendees and OCB "inhibitors" are factors that largely hinder decision choices to attend a meeting (Cassar et al, 2020). Several authors have cited terms related to inhibitors of meeting attendance as critical factors that need to be weighed against benefits (e.g.…”

Section: Attributes Relating To Meeting Attendancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Investigations into the attributes relating to MICE event attendance or non-attendance have been extensively reported (e.g. Draper and Neal, 2018;Mair et al, 2018;Ngamson and Beck, 2000;Cassar et al, 2020). The overwhelming majority of these studies provide descriptive information about potential attributes and their perceived importance.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While large lists of attendance attributes have been compiled over many years, a handful of studies have investigated the inhibiting factors (e.g. Ngamson and Beck, 2000;Rittichainuwat et al, 2001;Mair et al, 2018;Cassar et al, 2020). Yet, inhibiting factors tend to have increased salience for meetings that have restricted choice capabilities.…”

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Exploring the drivers of organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) among corporate meeting attendees

Yodsuwan

Pathan

Butcher

2020

IJEFM

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PurposeCorporate meetings are a large sector of the global meetings, incentive, convention and exhibition (MICE) industry. However, regular attendance and productive participation by employees are regularly cited as critical problem areas. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how key inhibiting factors related to meeting attendance influence one dimension of employee organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB)–civic loyalty.Design/methodology/approachAn online survey was administered to 229 attendees of corporate meetings, drawn from a large range of private companies and government agencies. Regression analysis was used to investigate which factors affected two variables reflecting employee OCB–civic loyalty: future attendance intentions and positive co-worker advocacy.FindingsIt was found that opportunity costs and travel convenience were the two most important factors. Opportunity costs reflected the personal costs faced by attendees attending corporate meetings offsite through family or work-related responsibilities. In addition, organizational support was a further significant factor. The strength of relationships varied depending upon gender and mode of transport to the destination.Originality/valueWhile there is a large literature on motivators of meeting attendance in general, this is the first study to examine attendance factors for the corporate meeting sector. This study addresses calls for studies that seek to understand which key factors are related to positive attendance outcomes, and especially extends the scant level of research on meeting inhibitors. This study is also the first to utilize organizational citizenship theory to understand these relationships within the MICE sector. Implications are drawn for event organizers.

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Section: Attributes Relating To Meeting Attendancementioning

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Section: Attributes Relating To Meeting Attendancementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Exploring the drivers of organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) among corporate meeting attendees

Yodsuwan

Pathan

Butcher

2020

IJEFM

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“…has been identified as a significant factor that influences attendee satisfaction” in certain types of events (p. 121). Previous events literature also identified educational improvement and learning/gaining new skills as major motivators for attending a conference or event (Cassar et al, 2020; C. S. Kim et al, 2020; Scott et al, 2020).…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Defining the Field of Events

Dolasinski

Roberts

Reynolds

et al. 2020

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research

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When considering the field of events, an important initial step is to consider the definition of an event. The goal of this article was twofold, first to take a novel approach in defining an event by considering the contextual aspects of an event from the traditional definitions, but adding the perspective of the attendee; and second to develop a typology focused on a unified definition of the field of events relational to the extant literature. The definition of an event is an occurrence that has a time element, two or more participants, is planned, and is a unique opportunity. A systematic review of extant literature was conducted in order to define the field of events. A total of 95 articles were analyzed. The field of events is characterized as having four major categories: professional, entertainment, social, and common cause. Within these four categories there are 20 types of events, all of which meet the four components of the definition of an event.

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Exploring the effects of value co-creation strategies in event services on attendees’ citizenship behaviors: The roles of customer empowerment and psychological ownership

Zhang,

Singh,

et al. 2024

Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services

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Contemporary factors influencing association conference attendance

Cited by 20 publications

References 54 publications

Exploring the drivers of organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) among corporate meeting attendees

Exploring the drivers of organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) among corporate meeting attendees

Defining the Field of Events

Exploring the effects of value co-creation strategies in event services on attendees’ citizenship behaviors: The roles of customer empowerment and psychological ownership

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