ABSTRACT
This chapter sets out the insights gained from testing the concepts of psychological ownership for C-suite access within the case study of The CFO Centre, UK. Psychological ownership is present within the relationships between clients, their C-suite professionals, and the firms of C-suite providers in this case study of the access economy. The psychological ownership feelings experienced increase in line with the expressed increase in strength of roots and routes of psychological ownership, and some relationships demonstrated higher levels of psychological ownership than others. Three overarching themes were developed from the insights: feelings of psychological ownership are influenced by many factors and the characteristics of the players in the ecosystem; enabling and disabling dynamics are at play and can positively and negatively adjust the psychological ownership balance within the system; and lastly, there are many different pathways to establishing psychological ownership through various combinations of roots and routes, thus providing opportunities to manage and develop it.
