Jon L. Pierce

TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that organizational members can develop feelings of ownership toward the organization and various organizational factors under certain conditions, and identify its roots and the primary routes through which it develops.

TL;DR: For instance, this article found that people develop feelings of ownership for a variety of objects, material and immaterial in nature, and refer to this state as psychological ownership, which they call psychological ownership.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the relationship of psychological ownership with work attitudes and work behaviors, and find that psychological ownership increased explained variance in organization-based self-esteem and organizational citizenship behavior (both peer and supervisor observations of citizenship).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the construct "organization-based self-esteem" and its measurement, and develop a partial nomological network resulting in a set of hypotheses that guided efforts to validate the construct.

TL;DR: In this article, the initiation, adoption and implementation of new ideas or activity in an organizational setting is reviewed in terms of organization context, structure, and member attitudes, and a series of propositions and three predictive models are derived and presented as directions for future research and theory construction.