Abstract:

Nowadays, an increasing number of research reveals that employees’ sense of ownership to their own work and organization has positive outcomes on organizational outcomes. But, the issues of what psychological ownership (PO) phenomenon exactly means, in which forms it emerges, how it develops in the organizational field and what their organizational outputs are, have not been investigated in depth. Given the lack of conceptualization of PO in the literature, this study aims to contribute to the theory building process of PO in the field of organization. By introducing th enique model in this paper, therelation ship among variables were examined based on the theoretical analysis. The current review states that it is difficult to claim that a robust theory and framework has been developed in conceptualizing PO construct and its outcomes in the existing literature. This study is important because it adopts a holistic view on PO by providing a solid foundation on the topic to contribute to its theorization and calls for an emprical research in the future.

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