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Psychological Ownership of Ones’ Organization Explains the Positive Relationship Between Corporate Social Responsibility Participation and Organizational Engagement

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Abstract

This study aims to explore how CSR participation influences employees’ organizational engagement. Drawing on psychological ownership theory, we developed and tested a moderated mediation framework. With data collected from a field survey of several conglomerates in China, we found that employees’ CSR participation is positively related to organizational engagement. The results also confirm that the importance of CSR can moderate the mediation process among employees’ CSR participation, organization-based psychological ownership, and their organizational engagement. These results extend employee-focused CSR literature which has often been top-down and focused on how employees will be perceived CSR in previous studies. Rather, from an employee-focused perspective, the more employees can involve in CSR initiatives, the more organization-based psychological ownership they will feel, and the more engaged they might be in the organization.

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We would like to express our gratitude for financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 71972185).

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  1. School of Business, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China

    Aimin Yan & Yang Xiao

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  1. School of Business, Hunan International Economics University, Hunan, China

    Taosheng Wang

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

    Srikanta Patnaik

  3. College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

    Andrew W.H. Ip

  4. Business Systems and Analytics Department, La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Madjid Tavana

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Yan, A., Xiao, Y. (2022). Psychological Ownership of Ones’ Organization Explains the Positive Relationship Between Corporate Social Responsibility Participation and Organizational Engagement. In: Wang, T., Patnaik, S., Ip, A.W., Tavana, M. (eds) Advances in Decision Science and Management. ICDSM 2021. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1391. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2502-2_36

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