Cooperation and Dependence, Participation, and Organizational Commitment Influencing Success of Community Enterprises

Abstract

This research aims to 1) to study the components of cooperation and dependence, participation, and commitment on community enterprises, 2) to study the components of success of community enterprises, and 3) to study the causal relationship between cooperation and dependence, participation, and commitment on community enterprises, and success of community enterprises. The researcher used the mixed methods in conducting this research. The research results show that with regard to the components of cooperation and dependence, the samples, in total, really often practice the components of cooperation and dependence, which cooperation and dependence with the highest mean is cooperation principle, followed by the resources used in supporting cooperation, and the process of cooperation respectively. With regard to the components of participation, the samples, in total, often practice the components of participation, which participation with the highest mean is the participation in making decision, followed by the participation in accepting advantage, the participation in results evaluation, and the participation in operation respectively. With regard to the components of commitment on community enterprises, the samples, in total, often practice the components of commitment on community enterprises, which commitment on community enterprises with the highest mean is affective commitment, followed by normative commitment, and continuance commitment respectively. The components of success of community enterprises are in the level of the most real, which success of community enterprises with the highest mean is finance, followed by personnel development, process, future, and marketing and customers respectively. With regard to the cooperation and dependence, participation, and commitment on community enterprises of the samples classified by demographic profiles, the samples who are different in gender, age, and marital status had the same behavior of the cooperation and dependence, participation, and commitment on community enterprises, while the samples who are different in education level, income, and period of participating in the community enterprises had the different behavior of the cooperation and dependence, participation, and commitment on community enterprises with the statistical significance at the level of .05. The causal relationship between cooperation and dependence, participation, and commitment on community enterprises, which the researcher developed to be relevant to the empirical data;   = 151.78; df = 66; p–Value = 0.000; RMSEA = 0.066, which   / df is not exceeded 3.00 (  / df = 2.30), and RMSEA is not exceeded 0.08 (RMSEA = 0.066) and, the component weight of the variables of participation and commitment on community enterprise had the statistical significance (P<0.01), which means that of the variables of participation and commitment on community enterprise are the important variables signifying  the success of the community enterprise, by that the components weight of these variables is between .030 – 0.76.