He employs central place foraging and
exchange theory, subsets of human behavioral ecology, to interpret the large data set.
Social
exchange theory provides a theoretical basis for the relationship between LMX and POS to be understood, and it also explains the effect of these two aspects of the exchange relationship on employees' attitudes and behaviors (Blau, 1964).
Past studies have treated the Leader-Member
Exchange Theory as a construct that measures the quality of the exchange relationship between a supervisor and subordinate (Green & Cashman, 1975; Graen et al., 1982; Graen & Scandura, 1987).
Social
exchange theory (Blau, 1964) is a robust organizational behavior paradigm (Cropanzano & Mitchell, 2005) to provide justifications for followers' supportiveness to change.
The theory of motivation which is adopted by this study is the Social
Exchange Theory. The Social
Exchange Theory was formally advanced in the works of sociologists George Homans and Peter Blau.
The second section covers 27 theories in 27 chapters, which are divided into six broad classifications: the self and messages (e.g., cognitive dissonance theory and symbolic interaction theory); relationship development (e.g., social
exchange theory and relational dialectics theory); groups, teams, and organizations (e.g., groupthink and organizational culture theory); the public (e.g., the rhetoric and the narrative paradigm); the media (e.g., uses and gratifications theory and agenda setting theory); and culture and diversity (e.g., muted group theory and feminist standpoint theory).
About social
exchange theory (Blau, 1964), employees invest energies at work to get a return on management in a fair manner (Macey and Schneider, 2008).
Cognitive economics is relevant to game theory and exchange economics, augmenting and alleviating the established view of game theory, that is planned bilateral interplays between indistinguishable participants in a non-institutional setting, and being instrumental in and adjusting the standard approach of
exchange theory (Tang and Tang, 2014), restricted to economics, that is passive networks of products (Barnett, 2017) between specific participants moderated by the market.
Furthermore, with arguments based on social
exchange theory (Blau, 1964) and reactance theory (Brehm, 1966), organizational deviance is argued to have higher effects than interpersonal deviance due to an organizations' structure being created and sustained by the organization itself in that it is an organizational factor.
However, in this study the antecedents of innovative work behavior are derived from social
exchange theory (SET) which explicate that the employment relationship are maintained between the employees and their organization in order to gain mutual benefits (Blau, 1964 ).
According to Social
Exchange Theory, job satisfaction can be inferred through the reciprocity between employee and the organization who he or she attached to.