Advanced search
Publication Cover
Journal of Marketing Management Volume 32, 2016 - Issue 1-2
Submit an article Journal homepage
5,231
Views
67
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

The relationship between ownership and possession: observations from the context of digital virtual goods

Rebecca D. WatkinsCardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
View further author information
,
Janice Denegri-KnottBournemouth Media School, Bournemouth University, UKView further author information
&
Mike MolesworthSouthampton Business School, University of Southampton, UKView further author information
Pages 44-70 | Received 22 Jul 2014, Accepted 28 May 2015, Published online: 07 Nov 2015

Citations (67)

Keep up to date with the latest research on this topic with citation updates for this article.

Subscribe to citation updates

Read on this site (8)

Frances Liddell. (2023) The NFT memento: digital thingness and NFTs in exhibition design. Digital Creativity 34:4, pages 265-281.
Read now
David A. Harper, Félix-Fernando Muñoz & Francisco J. Vázquez. (2021) Innovation in online higher-education services: building complex systems. Economics of Innovation and New Technology 30:4, pages 412-431.
Read now
Anne-Mette Bech Albrechtslund. (2020) Amazon, Kindle, and Goodreads: implications for literary consumption in the digital age. Consumption Markets & Culture 23:6, pages 553-568.
Read now
Janice Denegri-Knott, Rebecca Jenkins & Siân Lindley. (2020) What is digital possession and how to study it: a conversation with Russell Belk, Rebecca Mardon, Giana M. Eckhardt, Varala Maraj, Will Odom, Massimo Airoldi, Alessandro Caliandro, Mike Molesworth and Alessandro Gandini. Journal of Marketing Management 36:9-10, pages 942-971.
Read now
Johan Hagberg & Hans Kjellberg. (2020) Digitalized markets. Consumption Markets & Culture 23:2, pages 97-109.
Read now
Jannsen Santana & Delane Botelho. (2019) ‘If it comes from Juazeiro, it’s blessed’! Liquid and solid attachment in systems of object itineraries of pilgrimages. Journal of Marketing Management 35:5-6, pages 514-539.
Read now
Myriam Ertz, Fabien Durif & Manon Arcand. (2018) Business at the fingertips of consumers: a scale for measuring resale motivations in online settings. The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research 28:1, pages 92-114.
Read now
Lora Mitchell Harding & Mark T. Schenkel. (2017) Brand Advertising in an Access–Ownership World: How Marketing Channels Impact Message Persuasiveness. Journal of Marketing Channels 24:1-2, pages 51-72.
Read now

Articles from other publishers (59)

Emmanuel D. Adamides. (2024) Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Transition to Sustainability Trajectories: An Activity-Based Conceptual Analytic Framework. Sustainability 16:7, pages 2782.
Crossref
Nivin Vinoi, Amit Shankar, Ankit Mehrotra, Jitender Kumar & Nasreen Azad. (2024) Enablers and inhibitors of digital hoarding behaviour. An application of dual-factor theory and regret theory. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services 77, pages 103645.
Crossref
Atul Grover. 2024. Digital Technologies, Ethics, and Decentralization in the Digital Era. Digital Technologies, Ethics, and Decentralization in the Digital Era 201 227 .
Ofer Bergman & Noa Gradovitch. (2023) Collecting streaming music increases listening enjoyment. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 27:6, pages 2147-2159.
Crossref
Sota Tanaka & Issei Fujishiro. (2023) HomeShelf: Cultivating Individual Relationships with Digital Contents. HomeShelf: Cultivating Individual Relationships with Digital Contents.
Leiqing Peng, Mengting Luo & Yulang Guo. (2023) Deposit AI as the “invisible hand” to make the resale easier: A moderated mediation model. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services 75, pages 103480.
Crossref
Xiaohua Awa Zhu. (2023) Digital Ownership: The Case of E‐Books . Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 60:1, pages 505-514.
Crossref
Magnus Söderlund. (2023) Who is who in the age of service robots: The impact of robots’ demand for user identification in human-to-robot interactions. Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans 1:2, pages 100013.
Crossref
Jung-Kuei Hsieh, Werner H. Kunz & Ai-Yun Wu. (2022) Virtual gifting behavior on new social media: the perspectives of the community gift-giving model and face-negotiation theory. Internet Research 33:4, pages 1597-1632.
Crossref
Rebecca Mardon, Janice Denegri-Knott & Mike Molesworth. (2023) “Kind of Mine, Kind of Not”: Digital Possessions and Affordance Misalignment. Journal of Consumer Research 50:2, pages 255-281.
Crossref
Emmanuel D. Adamides. (2023) Activity theory for understanding and managing system innovations. International Journal of Innovation Studies 7:2, pages 127-141.
Crossref
Kwaku Owusu Twum, Patrick Arhin, Samira Sanni & Mohammed Abubakari. 2023. Circular Economy Strategies and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Circular Economy Strategies and the UN Sustainable Development Goals 19 54 .
Joann Peck & Andrea W. Luangrath. (2022) A review and future avenues for psychological ownership in consumer research. Consumer Psychology Review 6:1, pages 52-74.
Crossref
Russell Belk, Mariam Humayun & Myriam Brouard. (2022) Money, possessions, and ownership in the Metaverse: NFTs, cryptocurrencies, Web3 and Wild Markets. Journal of Business Research 153, pages 198-205.
Crossref
Sandy J. J. Gould & Sarah Wiseman. (2022) Dealing with Digital Service Closure. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 6:CSCW2, pages 1-25.
Crossref
Özgün Atasoy, Remi Trudel, Theodore J. Noseworthy & Patrick J. Kaufmann. (2022) Tangibility bias in investment risk judgments. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 171, pages 104150.
Crossref
Joris Demmers, Andrea N. Weihrauch & Frauke H. Mattison Thompson. (2021) Your Data are (Not) My Data: The Role of Social Value Orientation in Sharing Data About Others. Journal of Consumer Psychology 32:3, pages 500-508.
Crossref
Bình Nghiêm-Phú. 2022. Handbook of Research on Big Data, Green Growth, and Technology Disruption in Asian Companies and Societies. Handbook of Research on Big Data, Green Growth, and Technology Disruption in Asian Companies and Societies 195 220 .
雅琴 杜. (2022) A Review of the Research Status and Trends of Object Attachment. Advances in Psychology 12:03, pages 637-642.
Crossref
Andrea Sestino, Gianluigi Guido & Alessandro M. PelusoAndrea Sestino, Gianluigi Guido & Alessandro M. Peluso. 2022. Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) 77 82 .
Risako Hiroe, Azusa Iwase, Naoki Yoshida, Yuqing Wang, Tongfei Hu, Yosuke Miyata, Emi Ishita & Keiko Kurata. (2021) Information Media Use所有とアクセスからみた情報メディアの利用. Library and Information Science 86, pages 1-18.
Crossref
Umut KUBAT & Hasan Ali ACAR. (2021) Tüketicilerin Dijital Medya Ürünleri ve Dijital Medya Markalarıyla İlişkileri. Journal of Internet Applications and Management.
Crossref
Hyun Hee Park. (2021) Analysis of Sales Information of Secondhand Clothing Goods on the C2C Secondhand Trading Platform : Focusing on Content Analysis Using NVivo. Fashion & Textile Research Journal 23:3, pages 358-369.
Crossref
Claes Thorén. (2020) Pen, paper, dice…screen? Digital resistance in the Swedish tabletop role-playing game community. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 27:3, pages 727-745.
Crossref
Elise van den Hoven, Daniel Orth & Annemarie Zijlema. (2021) Possessions and memories. Current Opinion in Psychology 39, pages 94-99.
Crossref
Bernadett Koles & Peter Nagy. (2021) Digital object attachment. Current Opinion in Psychology 39, pages 60-65.
Crossref
Ateeq Abdul Rauf. (2020) New Moralities for New Media? Assessing the Role of Social Media in Acts of Terror and Providing Points of Deliberation for Business Ethics. Journal of Business Ethics 170:2, pages 229-251.
Crossref
Philipp A. Rauschnabel. (2021) Augmented reality is eating the real-world! The substitution of physical products by holograms. International Journal of Information Management 57, pages 102279.
Crossref
Carey K. Morewedge, Ashwani Monga, Robert W. Palmatier, Suzanne B. Shu & Deborah A. Small. (2020) Evolution of Consumption: A Psychological Ownership Framework. Journal of Marketing 85:1, pages 196-218.
Crossref
Martin P. Fritze, André Marchand, Andreas B. Eisingerich & Martin Benkenstein. (2020) Access-Based Services as Substitutes for Material Possessions: The Role of Psychological Ownership. Journal of Service Research 23:3, pages 368-385.
Crossref
John Harvey, Andrew Smith, James Goulding & Ines Branco Illodo. (2020) Food sharing, redistribution, and waste reduction via mobile applications: A social network analysis. Industrial Marketing Management 88, pages 437-448.
Crossref
John Harvey, Andrew Smith, David Golightly, James Goulding & H.P. Samanthika Gallage. (2020) Prosocial exchange systems: Nonreciprocal giving, lending, and skill-sharing. Computers in Human Behavior 107, pages 106268.
Crossref
Kathleen S. Micken, Scott D. Roberts & Jason D. Oliver. (2019) The digital continuum: the influence of ownership, access, control, and Cocreation on digital offerings. AMS Review 10:1-2, pages 98-115.
Crossref
Fabio Morreale & Maria Eriksson. (2020) "My Library Has Just Been Obliterated": Producing New Norms of Use Via Software Update. "My Library Has Just Been Obliterated": Producing New Norms of Use Via Software Update.
Soyeon Kwon. (2020) Understanding user participation from the perspective of psychological ownership: The moderating role of social distance. Computers in Human Behavior 105, pages 106207.
Crossref
Bong-Goon Seo & Do-Hyung Park. (2020) Did You Invest Less Than Me? The Effect of Other’s Share of Investment on Psychological Ownership of Crowdfunding Projects. Sustainability 12:5, pages 2025.
Crossref
Bożena Ryszawska, Anna Haczkowska & Piotr Szymański. 2020. Finance and Sustainability. Finance and Sustainability 303 321 .
Amelia Carrozzi, Mathew Chylinski, Jonas Heller, Tim Hilken, Debbie I. Keeling & Ko de Ruyter. (2019) What's Mine Is a Hologram? How Shared Augmented Reality Augments Psychological Ownership. Journal of Interactive Marketing 48, pages 71-88.
Crossref
Daniel Orth, Clementine Thurgood & Elise Van Den Hoven. (2019) Designing Meaningful Products in the Digital Age. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 26:5, pages 1-28.
Crossref
Sebastian Danckwerts & Peter Kenning. (2019) “It's MY Service, it's MY Music”: The role of psychological ownership in music streaming consumption. Psychology & Marketing 36:9, pages 803-816.
Crossref
Myriam Ertz, Fabien Durif & Manon Arcand. (2018) A conceptual perspective on collaborative consumption. AMS Review 9:1-2, pages 27-41.
Crossref
Bong-Goon Seo & Do-Hyung Park. (2019) The effect of message framing on security behavior in online services: Focusing on the shift of time orientation via psychological ownership. Computers in Human Behavior 93, pages 357-369.
Crossref
M. Ritter & H. Schanz. (2019) The sharing economy: A comprehensive business model framework. Journal of Cleaner Production 213, pages 320-331.
Crossref
Sayeed Barati & Mohaamdareza Abdoli. (2019) Designing a Model and Explaining Persuasion Techniques in Disclosure Financial Reports by Companies with Job Acquisition Incentives Bias CEO. Iranian journal of Value and Behavioral Accounting 3:6, pages 199-240.
Crossref
Xiaohua Zhu & Tao Yang. (2019) Do I Own It? U.S. and Chinese college students' digital ownership perceptions. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 56:1, pages 346-355.
Crossref
Joanne Sau-Ching Yim, Priscilla Moses & Alia Azalea. (2018) Effects of psychological ownership on teachers’ beliefs about a cloud-based virtual learning environment. Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning 13:1.
Crossref
Rebecca Mardon & Russell Belk. (2018) Materializing digital collecting: An extended view of digital materiality. Marketing Theory 18:4, pages 543-570.
Crossref
DAVID A. HARPER & ANTHONY M. ENDRES. (2017) From Quaker Oats to Virgin Brides: Brand capital as a complex adaptive system. Journal of Institutional Economics 14:6, pages 1071-1096.
Crossref
Michael Zhou, Mark A.A.M. Leenders & Ling Mei Cong. (2018) Ownership in the virtual world and the implications for long-term user innovation success. Technovation 78, pages 56-65.
Crossref
Arto Lindblom, Taru Lindblom & Heidi Wechtler. (2018) Collaborative consumption as C2C trading: Analyzing the effects of materialism and price consciousness. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services 44, pages 244-252.
Crossref
Jenna Drenten & Linda Tuncay Zayer. (2018) The Role of Digital Virtual Consumption in Navigating Risk-Laden Life Events. Journal of the Association for Consumer Research 3:1, pages 46-62.
Crossref
Arto Lindblom & Taru Lindblom. 2018. Collaborative Value Co-creation in the Platform Economy. Collaborative Value Co-creation in the Platform Economy 167 182 .
Colleen P. Kirk & Scott D. Swain. 2018. Psychological Ownership and Consumer Behavior. Psychological Ownership and Consumer Behavior 69 90 .
Xiaohua Zhu & Moonhee Cho. (2019) The end of ownership?: An investigation of users' preferences and perceptions of ownership configurations. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 55:1, pages 618-627.
Crossref
Arto Lindblom & Taru Lindblom. (2017) De‐ownership orientation and collaborative consumption during turbulent economic times. International Journal of Consumer Studies 41:4, pages 431-438.
Crossref
Gary Sinclair & Julie Tinson. (2017) Psychological ownership and music streaming consumption. Journal of Business Research 71, pages 1-9.
Crossref
Georgiana Grigore, Mike Molesworth & Rebecca Watkins. 2017. Corporate Social Responsibility in the Post-Financial Crisis Era. Corporate Social Responsibility in the Post-Financial Crisis Era 41 62 .
Bernardo Figueiredo & Daiane Scaraboto. (2016) The Systemic Creation of Value Through Circulation in Collaborative Consumer Networks. Journal of Consumer Research 43:4, pages 509-533.
Crossref
Mike Molesworth, Rebecca Watkins & Janice Denegri-Knott. (2016) Possession Work on Hosted Digital Consumption Objects as Consumer Ensnarement. Journal of the Association for Consumer Research 1:2, pages 246-261.
Crossref

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Order Reprints Request Corporate Permissions

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

Request Academic Permissions

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.

Related research

People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.

Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.

Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.