Toward an Understanding of the Psychology of Stewardship

By Morela Hernandez. 2012

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Subfields: Demography, Information Systems and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Theoretical Development and Empirical Examination of a Three-Roles Model of Responsible Leadership (2019, unknown): “…the accountability toward primary and secondary stakeholders, but can be related to prevalent basic human motivations, i.e., the motivation to care for one’s task, to care for those one is entrusted with, and to care for social welfare (Alexander and Wilson 2005; Hernandez 2012; Rousseau 1990).”
Caring for the Commons: Using Psychological Ownership to Enhance Stewardship Behavior for Public Goods (2020, background): “Stewardship has previously been defined as an attitude or feeling (Hernandez 2012), but in our studies we measure stewardship through effortful care behaviors (e.g., picking up trash) or financial contributions.”
Ownership, Activism and Engagement: Institutional Investors as Active Owners (2016, unknown): “Both are typically used to analyze employee relationships with the firm (Hernandez, 2012) and thus far rarely applied to the domain of institutional investors and corporate governance (for a notable exception, see Sikavica&Hillman, 2008).”
Reviewing and Theorizing the Unintended Consequences of Performance Management Systems (2018, unknown): “Stewardship theorists (Davis et al., 1997b; Hernandez, 2012) argue that goal-”
Stewardship Theory: Realism, Relevance, and Family Firm Governance (2019, background): “Hernandez (2012) comes the closest to providing a basis for explaining how bounded rationality and information asymmetries might be mitigated.”
Psychological ownership, knowledge sharing and entrepreneurial orientation in family firms: The moderating role of governance heterogeneity (2018, unknown): “In family firms, PO results in the development of a sense of stewardship toward the organization (e.g., Corbetta & Salvato, 2004; Hernandez, 2012) and has been viewed as a source of entrepreneurial behavior, as it creates the perception of a common purpose and stimulates family members' engagement…”
Principles and Principals: Do Customer Stewardship and Agency Control Compete or Complement When Shaping Frontline Employee Behavior? (2012, unknown): “…among managerial theorists therefore implies that synergies between employees’ performance goals and customer interests are possible if control systems regard frontline employees as stewards of customers (Block 1996; Davis, Schoorman, and Donaldson 1997; Hernandez 2008, 2012; Tosi et al. 2003).”
Exit Strategies in Family Firms: How Socioemotional Wealth Drives the Threshold of Performance (2013, unknown): “A stewardship-based exit strategy refers to a strategy developed out of an “ongoing sense of obligation or duty to others” (Hernandez, 2012, p. 174) and generally provides for firm continuity and care of the firm, the family, and the employees (DeTienne et al.).”
Family Control, Socioemotional Wealth and Earnings Management in Publicly Traded Firms (2014, background): “Given the growing importance of ethics as an academic area of inquiry (e.g., Donaldson 2012; Hernandez 2012; Mayer et al. 2012) and the preponderance of family firms around the world, our extension of the socioemotional wealth model to the earnings management literature suggests that socioemotional…”
Are Family Firms Good Employers (2017, background): “Hernandez (2012) argues, however, that financial stewardship is but one among many behaviors that are antecedent to the emergence and institutionalization of organizational stewardship.”
A psychological ownership approach to designing object attachment (2015, background): “Other studies relate psychological ownership to various aspects of attachment such as users giving an object a higher valuation (Franke, Schreier, and Kaiser 2010; Reb and Connolly 2007), developing a sense of stewardship (Davis, Schoorman, and Donaldson 1997; Hernandez 2012), and avoiding loss (Bae”
Social-ecological resilience and biosphere-based sustainability science (2016, background): “The theory places greater value on goal convergence among the parties involved than on the agent’s self-interest (Van Slyke 2007, Hernandez 2012).”