Territoriality in Organizations

By G. Brown, T. Lawrence, Sandra L. Robinson. 2005

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Citations in the corpus

• Structure and Learning in Self-Managed Teams: Why "Bureaucratic" Teams Can Be Better Learners (2010, background): “Theoretical work by Brown et al. (2005) has acknowledged that it is human nature for individuals working in organizations to become territorial when it comes to particular roles, relationships, and resources within their organization, and to both mark and defend these territorial claims.”
• Knowledge withholding: psychological hindrance to the innovation diffusion within an organisation (2016, background): “Organisational members establish their territorial rights over an object by marking it as their own and informing others of their ownership (Brown et al, 2005).”
• Psychological Ownership: A Meta-Analysis and Comparison of Multiple Forms of Attachment in the Workplace (2020, background): “The theory of organizational territoriality suggests that those with ownership may feel compelled to engage in territorial behaviors to protect their possessions from others (Brown et al., 2005).”