It's my business! The influence of psychological ownership on entrepreneurial intentions and work performance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12167329 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander B Hamrick (0000-0001-5769-9332, Robins School of Business, Department of Management University of Richmond Richmond Virginia USA, corresponding author), Sarah Burrows (0000-0002-5075-4383, Queen's University Smith School of Business Kingston Ontario Canada), Jacob A Waddingham (0000-0003-0825-0103, McCoy College of Business, Department of Management Texas State University San Marcos Texas USA), Craig D Crossley (Hanken School of Economics Helsinki Finland) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1208-1230 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Organizational Behavior (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0894-3796 • E-ISSN: 1099-1379 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/job.2818 |
| OpenAlex | W4400137459 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 124 |
Extant scholarship on psychological ownership has primarily focused on the organizational benefits that come from fostering employees' feelings of ownership without having to relinquish ties to actual ownership. It is unclear, however, if feeling like an owner is sufficient to satisfy employees' aspirational ownership intentions. By applying self‐verification theory to psychological ownership theory, we investigate how employees' psychological ownership influences their views about being a competent business owner, and the potential double‐edged implications for organizations as a result of these self‐views. Utilizing two separate studies, we find that psychological ownership is positively associated with entrepreneurial self‐efficacy, which, in turn, is positively associated with both entrepreneurial intentions and work performance. Furthermore, results show that employees' past work performance strengthens the positive relationship between psychological ownership and entrepreneurial self‐efficacy and the positive indirect relationship between psychological ownership and entrepreneurial intentions through entrepreneurial self‐efficacy. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of fostering psychological ownership with current employees to glean the benefits and negate any potential drawbacks, such as high performers leaving the organization to start their own business
Economics · Extant taxon · Feeling · Political science · Psychological contract · Public relations · Scholarship · Self-efficacy · Structural equation modeling · Work (physics · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Family Business Performance and Succession · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior · Psychology · Social Psychology
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The relationship of age to ten dimensions of job performance.
Self-Verification Theory
Toward a Theory of Psychological Ownership in Organizations
Recognizing Opportunities for Sustainable Development
The Influence of Self-Efficacy on the Development of Entrepreneurial Intentions and Actions
Organizational identification
A Meta‐Analytic Investigation of the Within‐Person Self‐Efficacy Domain
The effect of aging on entrepreneurial behavior
The Mediating Role of Self-Efficacy in the Development of Entrepreneurial Intentions.
On the role of positive and negative affectivity in job performance
Robustness of the Theory of Planned Behavior in Predicting Entrepreneurial Intentions and Actions
Effect of self-efficacy, goals, and task strategies on task performance.
Entrepreneurial self-efficacy
The Role of Gender Stereotypes in Perceptions of Entrepreneurs and Intentions to Become an Entrepreneur
Creative Self-Efficacy
Hybrid Entrepreneurship
Computational procedures for probing interactions in OLS and logistic regression
A Critical Review and Best‐Practice Recommendations for Control Variable Usage
Organizational Tenure and Job Performance
The Relationship of Personality to Entrepreneurial Intentions and Performance
Factors affecting entrepreneurial intention levels
Prolific.ac—A subject pool for online experiments
Mediation
Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis
Social cognitive theory of self-regulation
Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment as Predictors of Organizational Citizenship and In-Role Behaviors
Common method biases in behavioral research
Social Identity Theory and the Organization
Evaluating Structural Equation Models with Unobservable Variables and Measurement Error
A general approach to causal mediation analysis.
A Tale of Two Sample Sources
Who Wants Out When the Going Gets Good? Psychological Investment and Preference for Self-Verifying College Roommates
Small business owners and health
The effect of working time preferences and fair wage perceptions on entrepreneurial intentions among employees
Intrapreneurial intentions versus entrepreneurial intentions
Psychological ownership
Employees' Psychological Ownership and Self-Efficacy as Mediators Between Performance Appraisal Purpose and Proactive Behavior
Self-Efficacy and Psychological Ownership Mediate the Effects of Empowering Leadership on Both Good and Bad Employee Behaviors
The moderating role of social ties on entrepreneurs' depressed affect and withdrawal intentions in response to economic stress
Feeling shame in the workplace
Psychological ownership within the job design context
Self‐leadership in the context of part‐time teleworking
Psychological ownership and feelings of possession
Psychological ownership
A self‐verification perspective on customer mistreatment and customer‐directed organizational citizenship behaviors
Understanding dynamic change in perceptions of person–environment fit
Collective psychological ownership within the work and organizational context
Managing your feelings at work, for a reason
Toward an Understanding of the Development of Ownership Feelings
The measurement and antecedents of affective, continuance and normative commitment to the organization
Innovation, entrepreneurship, and restaurant performance
An event-oriented approach to the transmission of ex-leaders’ entrepreneurial endeavor to employees’ entrepreneurial intention
Crafting one’s leisure time in response to high job strain
The Effects of Employee Ownership on Organizational Identification, Employee Job Attitudes, and Organizational Performance
Identity negotiation
Possessions and the Extended Self
The FC1 Rule of Identification for Confirmatory Factor Analysis
Development and Validation of an Internationally Reliable Short-Form of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (Panas)
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |