Antecedents of collective psychological ownership in family firms. A multilevel configurational approach
研究了家族企业中集体心理所有权的前因，通过对33家比利时家族企业的162名个体进行模糊集定性比较分析，识别出社会化、认同和信号三种关键机制，对家族和非家族成员均有启示。
Knowledge about the antecedents of collective psychological ownership (CPO) in family firms is limited, despite its relevance for theory and practice. To address this gap, we adopted a multilevel configurational approach, encompassing organizational and individual attributes, to consider multiple possible combinations of the causal determinants of the perception of CPO over the organization. The empirical data comprise a sample of 162 individuals from 33 privately held family businesses in Belgium. More specifically, we conducted a fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), which was particularly appropriate given the aims of our study. By identifying distinctive configurational paths and three key mechanisms operating across such paths (socialization, identification and signaling), our results offer two important contributions. First, we contribute to the conceptual understanding of the antecedents of CPO in family firms, both for family and non-family members. Second, we expand the general literature on the paths leading to CPO by proposing an approach that combines individual attributes with organization-level features.