Together with Catherine Mackintosh and Haien Ding I am writing a book chapter where we are reviewing research that has applied both the social and economic dimensions of social exchange theory (SET) in predicting and better understanding individual in-role and contextual work performance.
SET represents an extremely broad conceptual framework, but most applications of SET have exclusively relied on its social dimension at the expense of the economic one or treated the latter mainly as an initial stage of exchanges or relationships that will eventually develop into higher-quality social exchanges or relationships (Kuvaas et al., 2012).
With this background, we welcome studies that have explicitly conceptualized or measured both social and economic exchanges or exchange relationships as predictors of employee performance. Examples are not limited to but can include social and economic exchange relationships (e.g., Shore et al., 2006), social and economic LMX (Kuvaas et al., 2012), and social and economic idiosyncratic deals (Mackintosh & McDermott, 2023).
If you know or have written such a paper (published or unpublished) we would be grateful if you could send it to bard.kuvaas@bi.no.
Mackintosh, C., & McDermott, A. M. 2023. The Implications of Market-Based Versus Supportive Idiosyncratic Deal Pathways. Group & Organization Management, 48(1): 125-155.
Kuvaas, B., Buch, R., Dysvik, A., & Haerem, T. 2012. Economic and social leader-member exchange relationships and follower performance. Leadership Quarterly, 23(5): 756-765.
Shore, L. M., Tetrick, L. E., Lynch, P., & Barksdale, K. 2006. Social and economic exchange: Construct development and validation. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 36(4): 837-867.
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Bard Kuvaas
Professor
BI Norwegian Business School
bard.kuvaas@bi.no------------------------------