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100			_aGozley, Beth
245			_aGood governance practices in professional association for public employee: Evidence of a public services
260			_c2014
300			_ap.736-747.
362			_aNov-Dec
520			_aProfessional associations and occupational societies play an important role in educating and credentialing public employees. Very little research has attempted to connect, empirically, a public service ethos to the professional memberships that public employees carry. Nowhere is that potential influence more likely to be seen than in the governing boards of these nonprofit associations, whose behavior is subject to strong normative and mimetic influences as a result of the public's expectations for good governance. This article uses a large generalizable sample of boards of directors, controlling for many organizational characteristics known to influence board behavior, to compare the governance practices of professional and trade associations serving public employees with those serving the private sector. The results suggest that governance practices are shaped by many forces but that public employees do indeed carry their public values into the associations they join, and these values, in turn, are positively related to board behavior. - Reproduced.
650			_aPublic utilities
650			_aProfessional associations
650			_aEmployees
650			_aGood governance
650			_aPublic administration
773			_aPublic Administration Review
908			_aN
909			_a106674
999			_c106669 _d106669