Toward a Theory of Psychological Ownership in Organizations

By J. L. Pierce, T. Kostova, Kurt T. Dirks. 2001

2,409 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. T. Beehr
2. Minseop Kim
3. Fred Luthans
4. Arnold B. Bakker
5. James Avey
6. He Peng
7. Bruce J. Avolio
8. Wilmar B. Schaufeli

In Social Psychology

1. Fred Luthans
2. James Avey
3. T. Beehr
4. Minseop Kim
5. Wilmar B. Schaufeli
6. Bruce J. Avolio
7. Arnold B. Bakker
8. Steven M. Norman

Citations in the corpus

• The Psychology of Ownership (2006, methodology): “With regard to organizational commitment, Pierce et al. (2001) argue that feelings of ownership are pleasure-producing in and of themselves, and as a consequence, organizational members will want to maintain their relationship with that which produces positive affect.”
• Managerial Agents Watching other Agents: Multiple Agency Conflicts Regarding Underpricing in IPO Firms (2008, background): “In addition, tenure likely creates psychological attachment to an organization, so that its success and survival become a part of employees’ identities (Pierce et al. 2001).”
• Turning Agents into Psychological Principals: Aligning Interests of Non‐Owners Through Psychological Ownership (2013, positive): “A critical assumption of psychological ownership is that formal ownership is not necessary for ownership feelings and behavioural alterations to emerge (Pierce et al., 2001).”
• Perceived organizational membership: An aggregate framework representing the employee-organization relationship. (2003, background): “As Rousseau (1995) noted, human resource practices (such as recruiting practices, performance reviews, compensation practices, training programs, and personnel manuals) can shape employees' psychological contracts, through both explicit and implicit communication of organizational promises and expec”
• The Psychology of Ownership and Worker-Owner Productivity (2004, background): “…as an outgrowth of an increase in the motivation of the employee owner to contribute to the success of their employing organization as the organization has become a part of the extended self (Furby, 1991; Dittmar, 1992; Pierce et al., 2001)—its success is their success, its competence is theirs.”
• Psychological Ownership Motivation and Use of Social Media (2015, positive): “Our work is anchored in the growing research on psychological ownership (Jussila et al., 2015; Pierce, Kostova, and Dirks, 2001, 2003).”
• Collaboration and psychological ownership: how does the tension between the two influence perceived learning? (2011, background): “Pierce et al. (2001) argued that psychological ownership has important emotional, attitudinal and behavioral effects.”
• Pieces of the Action: Ownership and the Changing Employment Relationship (2003, background): “Psychological ownership has the capacity to shape individual identity (Pierce et al., 2001).”