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Linking psychological ownership to employee extra-role behaviours in small overseas Chinese family businesses: Does family status matter?

Michael Mustafa (Nottingham University Business School Malaysia, The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Semenyih, Malaysia)
Hazel Melanie Ramos (Department of Applied Psychology, The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Semenyih, Malaysia)
Thomas Wing Yan Man (Nottingham University Business School China, University of Nottingham Ningbo China)

Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies

ISSN: 2053-4604

Article publication date: 1 June 2015

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of psychological ownership (both job and organisational based) on extra-role behaviours among family and non-family employees in small overseas Chinese family businesses.

Design/methodology/approach

Empirical evidence was drawn from a survey of 80 family owners/managers and non-family employees from 40 small overseas Chinese family businesses from the transport industry in Malaysia. All proposed hypothesis were tested using hierarchical moderated regression analyses.

Findings

Job-based psychological ownership was found to significantly predict both types of extra-role behaviours. Organisational-based psychological ownership, however, was only a significant predictor of voice extra-role behaviour. Interestingly enough, no significant moderating effects on the relationships between the two dimensions of psychological ownership and two types of extra-role behaviour were found.

Originality/value

Having a dedicated workforce of both family and non-family employees who are willing to display extra-role behaviours may be considered as an essential component of business success and long-term continuity for many family firms around the world. This particular paper represents one of the few empirical efforts to examine the extra-role behaviours of employees in family firms from emerging economies.

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Citation

Mustafa, M., Ramos, H.M. and Man, T.W.Y. (2015), "Linking psychological ownership to employee extra-role behaviours in small overseas Chinese family businesses: Does family status matter?", Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies, Vol. 7 No. 2, pp. 129-147. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEEE-11-2014-0041

Publisher

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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