Psychological ownership framework

Acronym

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Alternate name(s)

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Main dependent construct(s)/factor(s)

Personal and object-related satisfaction, Control, Social power and status, Self-identity, Security, Extra-role behavior, job satisfaction, commitment to organization, organizational self-esteem, organization citizenship, efficacy and competence

Main independent construct(s)/factor(s)

Satisfaction expectation, Desire for pleasure, Desire of autonomy and control, Enjoyment expectation, Desire for security

Concise description of theory

Appropriation in IS context signifies the way that users take possession of a technology over time. The user can either ignore certain functionalities that the technology provides or inventing new ones contradicting designers or working around certain features of technology. With continued technology use, users identify themselves with the technology and it becomes part of their life. Since, the sense of psychological ownership is similar to technology appropriation behavior, the antecedents and consequences of psychological ownership is used for appropriation of technology. At individual level, psychological ownership and appropriation are theoretically equivalent.

The framework comes up with two propositions. Desires for autonomy or control, pleasure, and security, as well as expectations of enjoyment and satisfaction will motivate the appropriation of a technology. Individual appropriation of a technology will result in increases in: personal and object-related satisfaction, control, social power and status, self-identity, security, extra-role behaviour, job satisfaction, commitment to organization, organizational self-esteem, organizational citizenship, efficacy, and competence.

Originating author(s)

James Gaskin, Kalle lyytinen

Seminal article(s)

Gaskin, J.E., & Lyytinen, K.J. (2010). Psychological Ownership and the Individual Appropriation of Technology. 2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 1-8.

Originating area

Applied psychology

Level of analysis

Individual

Links from this theory to other theories

Technology acceptance model, Unified theory of acceptance, Adaptive structuration theory

IS articles that use the theory

Mendoza, Antonette & Carroll, Jennie & Stern, Linda. (2010). Software appropriation over time: From adoption to stabilization and beyond. Australasian Journal of Information Systems; Vol 16, No 2 (2010). 16. 10.3127/ajis.v16i2.507.

Kirk, Colleen & Swain, Scott & Gaskin, James. (2015). I'm Proud of It: Consumer Technology Appropriation and Psychological Ownership. The Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice. 23. 10.1007/978-3-319-11815-4_199.

Xiao, Yazhen & Spanjol, Jelena. (2021). Yes, but not now! Why some users procrastinate in adopting digital product updates. Journal of Business Research. 135. 685-696. 10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.06.066.

Quinones, Pablo-Alejandro. (2015). Cultivating Practice & Shepherding Technology Use: Supporting Appropriation Among Unanticipated Users. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW. 10.1145/2531602.2531698.

Mendoza, Antonette & Carroll, Jennie & Stern, Linda. (2010). Software appropriation over time: From adoption to stabilization and beyond. Australasian Journal of Information Systems; Vol 16, No 2 (2010). 16. 10.3127/ajis.v16i2.507.

Contributor(s)

Harikrishnan R S, Doctoral student at Indian institute of management, Kozhikode, India

Date last updated

21/08/2022 Please feel free to make modifications to this site. In order to do so, you must register.