Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/307615 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Citation: 
[Journal:] Review of Managerial Science [ISSN:] 1863-6691 [Volume:] 18 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Berlin, Heidelberg [Year:] 2022 [Pages:] 1-27
Publisher: 
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
Organizational citizenship behavior is a highly sought-after outcome. We integrate insight from the psychological ownership perspective and agency theory to examine how the juxtaposition of informal psychological mechanisms (i.e., ownership feelings toward an organization) and formal and informal governance mechanisms (i.e., employee share ownership, agency monitoring, and peer monitoring) influences employees' organizational citizenship behaviors. Our empirical results show that psychological ownership has a positive effect on organizational citizenship behavior. Contrary to the common belief that informal and formal mechanisms complement each other, we find that the positive influence of psychological ownership on organizational citizenship behavior is more pronounced when employee share ownership and agency monitoring is low compared to high. Implications for theory and future research are discussed.
Subjects: 
Psychological ownership
Organizational citizenship behavior
Agency monitoring
Peer monitoring
Employee share ownership
Agency theory
JEL: 
L2
L7
M1
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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