Purpose – This study attempts to analyze the structure of work commitment by delineating and classifying the content areas that constitute the conceptual space of the work commitment domain. Design/methodology/approach – Building on the work commitment literature, the present study considers...

Household arrangements and human capital investment decisions of young Italians with a high school diploma are analysed. A model of the choices of residing with parents or forming a new family, jointly with those of investing in either work experience, or further education, or stopping...

Looks at how we bring the trauma of our childhood into the workplace, considering our “family” at work, and probes more deeply into traits which abused adults carry with them daily. Finally, explores the long‐lasting effects with regard to communication patterns in the workplace as they...

Purpose – The relationship between work‐family enrichment (WFE), representing positive interdependencies between individuals' work and family roles, and work‐family conflict (WFC), representing negative interdependencies between the same roles, has been discussed but never fully clarified...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine employee imagination and implications for entrepreneurs of China. In 2015, the European Group of Organization Studies released a call for papers highlighting poor knowledge of employee imagination in organizations. To address this need, the current...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of and the management of creative individuals in organizations. Design/methodology/approach – The paper integrates concepts including a range of recently published (1995‐2006) theoretical works in the creative culture, creativity,...

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the dynamics of employee identity regulation within organizations. It also aims to examine the notion of control and discusses the use of identity as a medium for its exercise. Design/methodology/approach – Through a review of the literature and a...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to expand and extend previous work on the role of organizations in influencing deviant or dysfunctional behavior in those organizations. Design/methodology/approach – Conclusions from previous work on the role of individuals and organizations in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide theoretical and practical insight into the process of crossover with the proposition that affect intensity is an important explanatory mechanism of crossover. Design/methodology/approach – This paper provides an empirical and conceptual...