Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a historical account of organizational
citizenship behavior (OCB) based on the existing literature. Design/methodology/approach …

Validity and reliability of research and its results are important elements to provide evidence
of the quality of research in the organizational field. However, validity is better evidenced in …

The term 'managerialism'has been widely used but theoretical publications on
managerialism remain rare while theory development continues to be insufficient. This …

Purpose–Theories develop over time and are influenced by both events and people.
Looking primarily at the applications between contracting principal-agent relationships, the …

This new edition of the successful textbook Organization Theories discusses various
approaches to theory formation in organization research, offers a critical presentation of the …

Purpose This paper introduces the concept of knowledge sabotage as an extreme form of
counterproductive knowledge behavior, presents its typology, and empirically demonstrates …

What produces a happy society and a happy life? Thanks to the new science of wellbeing,
we can now answer this question using state-of-the-art empirical evidence. This transforms …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to chronicle the study of deviant behavior aimed at the
organization, or CWB‐O, from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution to the present day …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to suggest Homans' social exchange theory (SET), a
management theory, as an explanation for some of the findings of some of the Hawthorne …

Purpose–This paper aims to highlight the historical roots of employee engagement and
empirically examine the influence of self-efficacy on the three dimensions of employee …