On basis of literatures, this paper analyzes the relationship between knowledge-based psychological ownership and knowledge sharing, arguing knowledge-based psychological ownership could constrain Knowledge Sharing behavior. Then, Organizational Justice is introduced to discuss the moderating effects to the aforementioned relationship through modeling, concluding that the employee’s positive pe...

The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework and research hypotheses based upon a thorough review of the conceptual and limited published empirical research in the organizational learning and innovation performance literatures. Hypotheses indicate the relationships between organizational learning, its antecedent, perception of the environment, and the outcome variable, innovat...

Article history: Received 19 February 2015 Received in revised form 29 June 2015 Accepted 10 July 2015 In light of the growing interest in the dark side of organizations inmainstream research, two concepts related to organizational behavior andmanagement literature have received attention in recent years: counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs) and dark triad traits (Machiavellianism, narcissis...

Research suggests that the mind contains a set of adaptations for detecting alliances: an alliance detection system, which monitors for, encodes, and stores alliance information and then modifies the activation of stored alliance categories according to how likely they will predict behavior within a particular social interaction. Previous studies have established the activation of this system w...

The ability to accurately evaluate an employee would seem to be a key activity in managing Information Technology (IT). Yet, workers may engage in dishonest and misleading behavior, which distort the evaluation, a variation of organizational politics. Why would they do so? One hypothesis is that “privilege-seeking”, that is, managing one’s managers (also called “rentseeking”, “management relati...

 This paper aims to determine whether the working environment that bank employees perceive is related to their affective responses and their perception about the service quality that is provided at their bank. More specifically, the study extends and links previous works by researching into the relationships between the organizational obstacles perceived, the employees’ psychological cl...

Within any organization (e.g. a hospital or clinic) the perception of the way things operate may vary dramatically as a function of one's location in the organizational hierarchy as well as one's professional discipline. Interorganizational variability depends on organizational coherence, safety, and stability. In this four-nation (Canada, Ireland, Australia, and Korea) qualitative study of 42 ...

The challenges associated with climate change will require governments, citizens, and firms to work collaboratively to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a task that requires information on companies’ carbon risks, opportunities, strategies, and emission levels. This paper explores the conditions under which firms participate in this endeavor. Building on theories of how social activists inspire ...