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Development and validation of an instrument for assessing collective psychological ownership in organizational field settings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2017

Jon L Pierce ,
Iiro Jussila  and
Dahui Li
Jon L Pierce*
Affiliation:
Department of Management Studies, Labovitz School of Business and Economics, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, USA
Iiro Jussila
Affiliation:
Department of Management and International Business, School of Business, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland
Dahui Li
Affiliation:
Department of Finance and Management Information Sciences, Labovitz School of Business and Economics, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, USA
*
Corresponding author: jpierce@d.umn.edu
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Abstract

Recently, there emerged a theory of collective psychological ownership – an intersubjective sense of possession for different objects within the work and organizational context (e.g., work space). This shared mind-set has been cast as having the potential to explain a variety of collective, work-related attitudes, and actions. Preventing scientific inquiry into this phenomenon is the absence of an instrument for the measurement of this construct. The purpose of this work was the development and validation of such an instrument. To this end, work with a panel of judges and three sequentially conducted field studies was undertaken. Construct validation evidence (e.g., content, discriminant, nomological, and incremental validity) for an instrument for the assessment of collective psychological ownership is provided.

Keywords

collective psychological ownershipcollective cognitionscale developmentconstruct validationteamwork
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Research Article
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Journal of Management & Organization , Volume 24 , Issue 6 , November 2018 , pp. 776 - 792
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© Cambridge University Press and Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management 2017 

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