Organizational Capital and Joining-up: Linking the Individual to the Organization and to Society
结合组织行为学与经济学理论，解释员工努力为何通常低于最优水平，并指出通过融入过程形成的组织资本是促使员工负责任行为的关键。
Do employees ever make efforts on behalf of their employing organization's interests or fellow employees' interests when it is not in their direct self-interest to do so? By drawing on organizational behavior literature relating to the joining-up process, organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior, and integrating these insights with economic theory, this article provides a new explanation of why employees' efforts are typically suboptimal and what organizational activities can resolve this problem. The key variable explaining whether organization members behave responsibly or not is the presence of organizational capital formed either during the joining-up process or in preparation for it.