Psychological Ownership, Job Satisfaction, and Middle Manager Entrepreneurial Behavior

By M. Mustafa, Lee Y. Martin, Mathew Hughes. 2016

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Despite the importance of middle managers’ entrepreneurial behavior for corporate entrepreneurship, there is still a lack of knowledge about its determinants. Knowledge of the role of individual psychological states and work attitudes remains particularly thin. Through an empirical investigation into 136 middle managers in a large Singapore telecommunications firm, this study finds that psychological ownership is positively related to entrepreneurial behavior and job satisfaction within these middle managers. The study further finds that job satisfaction is positively related to entrepreneurial behavior and mediates the relationship between psychological ownership and entrepreneurial behavior. This study contributes to the literature by demonstrating the relationship between psychological ownership and pro-organizational behavior, extending psychological ownership research into the field of corporate entrepreneurship via middle managers’ entrepreneurial behavior.

Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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• Innovative Behaviour, Trust and Perceived Workplace Performance (2018, unknown): “However, most studies of firm entrepreneurship focus only on the entrepreneurial and innovative behaviours and dispositions of top managers or firm owners (e.g., Covin and Slevin, 1989; Sieger, Zellweger and Aquino, 2013), neglecting that organizational members across all organizational levels can p”