Research on psychological ownership is prevalent in the consumer domain. This article
details the theoretical core of psychological ownership, integrating research in consumer …

How can consumers be encouraged to take better care of public goods? Across four studies,
including two experiments in the field and three documenting actual behaviors, the authors …

Customer engagement marketing—defined as a firm's deliberate effort to motivate,
empower, and measure customer contributions to marketing functions—marks a shift in …

Job engagement denotes the extent to which an employee invests the full self in performing
the job. Extant research has investigated the positive outcomes of job engagement, paying …

As mouse-driven desktop computers give way to touchpad laptops and touchscreen tablets,
the role of touch in online consumer behavior has become increasingly important. This work …

Building upon the observation that individuals feel ownership toward a variety of targets, we
suggest that under certain conditions, organizational members can develop feelings of …

People develop feelings of ownership for a variety of objects, material and immaterial in
nature. We refer to this state as psychological ownership. Building on and extending …

This research finds that merely touching an object results in an increase in perceived
ownership of that object. For nonowners, or buyers, perceived ownership can be increased …

The assumption of the present research was that ownership of an object causes the owner
to treat the object as a social entity because ownership creates a psychological association …

Psychological ownership, or the feeling that something is mine, has garnered growing
attention in marketing. While previous work focuses on the positive aspects of psychological …