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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"psychological ownership"”.
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Psychological Ownership of Simple Jobs: The Effect of Job Crafting
… on the relationship of job characteristics and psychological ownership has primarily focused on the specific dimensions of work and possessive behaviors and their impact on employees in complex jobs. This study takes a new path by examining how psychological ownership can be increased for a …
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Assessing a short-version of the South African psychological ownership questionnaire (SAPOS)
… effectively measures employees’ perceptions of psychological ownership. Although the South African Psychological Ownership Questionnaire (SAPOS) – which measures the four dimensions of identity, responsibility, autonomy, and territoriality – is confirmed and validated for a South African sample …
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Leadership, control at work, supervisor-subordinate guanxi and psychological ownership: A longitudinal study in China
… perceived control, personal guanxi and psychological ownership in China with two data collection points separated by a six-month interval (N= 971 at Time 1, N=201 at Time 2), and to examine the relationship between leadership styles (transformational and paternalistic leadership), …
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To Have or to Hold: The Role of Psychological Ownership in the Perceived Value of Owned and Accessed Goods
… Netflix, consumers are forgoing traditional ownership of goods in favor of gaining mere access to them. This behavior reflects a change in the way consumers view possession and ownership. While it is known that consumers become attached to possessions and that possessions mean a great deal to …
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“Ownership gets you up in the morning, but can keep you awake at night” An exploration of the development of work-related psychological ownership in early career professionals.
Studies of Psychological Ownership (PO) have captured the imagination of scholars in organisational research and beyond due to the many suggested positive outcomes which occur from feelings of “mine”. Nevertheless, the initial conceptualisation of PO has been under investigated, leaving early …
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Toward a Theory of Serial Entrepreneurship: Decomposing Entrepreneurial Experience
… financial performance, self-efficacy, and psychological ownership. Those three factors will jointly determine serial entrepreneurship intention. In addition, those three situational factors would interact with the individual's dispositional regulatory focus orientations to affect serial …
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Can I Choose My Offer: How Choice on Sales Offer Impacts Consumer Purchase Decision?
… value perceptions. In Essay 2, I build on the psychological ownership literature and show the linkage between choice on sales offers and antecedents to psychological ownership, namely, self-identity and self-investment. Across, ten experiments, using field and national adult samples, I find …
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The Role of Attachment in the Switching Dynamics of Liquid Consumption
… how consumers’ feelings of attachment and psychological ownership impacts their switching behavior in the fast-paced digitalized world. Digitalization is an organic part of consumers’ lives and infuses their daily routine. Many of us start the day by scrolling through digital content on …
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Setting the Stage for Individual Ambidexterity in Organizations: The Effects of Context and Individual Regulatory Mode on Explorative and Exploitative Behavior
… from the ambidexterity, the empowerment, and the ownership literatures, I propose that work environments that help develop individuals’ feeling of empowerment and ownership will tend to motivate ambidextrous behavior. In addition, drawing from self-regulatory theory and accountability research, I …
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An Empirical Study of Group Stewardship and Learning: Implications for Work Group Effectiveness
… to be distinct from related concepts such as psychological ownership and identification with the organization. While previous research has studied the concepts of individual and organizational learning, the concept of group learning is just emerging in the group effectiveness literature. Group …
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Luxury value perceptions in an emerging economy: A comparative analysis of luxury products and services in Thailand
… in Thailand. Underpinned by the theory of psychological ownership, it proposes that consumers’ sense of possession and emotional bond with target luxuries can take the place of material ownership in luxury consumption. This is the first study to integrate immaterial luxury services as a …
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Principal Ownership of an Instructional Initiative: Advancing a Conceptual Framework for the Study of Leadership
ABSTRACT Principal Ownership of an Instructional Initiative: Advancing a Conceptual Framework for the Study of Leadership Abigail Gray There is a need for unified theory as to how and why principals' engagement with instructional initiatives does or does not develop, and how that engagement …
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Stewardship: Theoretical Development and Empirical Test of its Determinants
… Within this model, I argue that issues of psychological ownership and power in the organizational context are central to stewardship concerns. Additionally, I present two empirical tests of the stewardship framework; the first is a field survey study, designed to explore the naturally …
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How end-user participation in Financial Management Information Systems development engenders a sense of system ownership in municipalities: A case in South Africa
… with their work processes. Lack of sense of ownership towards FMIS is the contributing factor to end-users being reluctant to use FMIS. It was noted that end-users of FMIS were not given a chance to take control and contribute to the development of FMIS for their municipalities. Objective: …
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Two Essays on Escalation of Commitment
… decision is mediated by/ explained by the psychological ownership construct.</p>
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Developing a framework to facilitate employee engagement culture: a case of Saudi Arabia Banks.
… competency and skills development, and employee psychological ownership. The outcomes of the present thesis contributes to the existing theory on employee engagement by providing empirical evidence regarding the engagement meaning construct and its distinctiveness from similar, alternative, …
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To Acquire or Not to Acquire? That is a Question of Ownership Language and Dispositional Greed
… interest to acquisition: (1) the impact of ownership language on product evaluation, and (2) the influence of dispositional greed on the experience of diminishing marginal utility. Essay 1 investigates the impact of ownership language (e.g., this is my car) on prospective buyers' item …