Author(s)

Xie Qian^*

Department of Business Management, School of Management, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.

This paper reviews the latest research on psychological ownership from the following three aspects: 1) theoretical background of psychological ownership; 2) connotation and measurement of psychological ownership; 3) formation mechanism and influence mechanism of psychological ownership. This paper also reveals the formation mechanism, the impact mechanism and interpretation of psychological ownership from local organization members’ perspective under Chinese culture.

Psychological Ownership, Formal Ownership, Local Enterprises

Qian, X. (2016) New Research Progress Review on Psychological Ownership. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 4, 155-160. doi: 10.4236/jss.2016.44022.