The DOI matches its Crossref record; 6 of the 6 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Social exchange theory: Systematic review and future directions
Open accessAbstract
Social exchange theory (SET) is one of the most influential theories in social sciences, which has implications across various fields. Despite its usefulness being a typical social transaction, there is a need to look at it from the lens of psychological transactions to further its evolution and to identify future directions. After generally reviewing 3,649 articles from the Social Science Citation Index and Scopus, a total of 46 articles were selected for final review using a comprehensive systematic review approach. We have highlighted the need for further research in psychological transactions, reciprocity principles, exchange relations, and the impact of various factors on the exchange process. Among other exchange rules (social, economic, and psychological) and transactions (social, economic, and psychological), this research provides an elevation platform for the less explored exchange rules in psychological transactions. Among other theories in the social sciences, social exchange theory is a theory that shadows many other theories under its umbrella.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
The norm of reciprocity: A preliminary statement
Gouldner, A. W. (1960) · American Sociological Review · doi:10.2307/2092623 · Cited by 12,001
Social Exchange Theory: An Interdisciplinary Review
Cropanzano, R., & Mitchell, M. S. (2005) · Journal of Management · doi:10.1177/0149206305279602 · Cited by 10,068
Perceived organizational support.
Eisenberger, R., Huntington, R., Hutchison, S., & Sowa, D. (1986) · Journal of Applied Psychology · doi:10.1037/0021-9010.71.3.500 · Cited by 10,023 · cited 1×
“This unleashed avenues for further research in management as scholars worked on various avenues such as absenteeism (Eisenberger et al., 1986), felt obligation (Eisenberger et al.”
BackgroundPOSITIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL: MEASUREMENT AND RELATIONSHIP WITH PERFORMANCE AND SATISFACTION
LUTHANS, F., AVOLIO, B. J., AVEY, J. B., & NORMAN, S. M. (2007) · Personnel Psychology · doi:10.1111/j.1744-6570.2007.00083.x · Cited by 4,809 · cited 1×
“The concept of psychological capital (Luthans et al., 2007) also supports this idea, and exchanges in such relations can be termed psychological exchanges.”
BackgroundEmerson, R. M. (1976) · Annual Review of Sociology · doi:10.1146/annurev.so.02.080176.002003 · Cited by 3,457
The New Era Workplace Relationships: Is Social Exchange Theory Still Relevant?
Chernyak-Hai, L., & Rabenu, E. (2018) · Industrial and Organizational Psychology · doi:10.1017/iop.2018.5 · Cited by 315 · cited 4×
“Negotiated rules and other exchange rules Parties in a social exchange may negotiate terms or rules to reach interdependent goals (Cook et al., 1983). There is significant literature on the comparison of reciprocal and negotiated exchanges (Molm, 2003). Key findings suggest that better work relations are the outcome o…”
BackgroundInfluential
Cited by
Yang, C., Li, Z., Li, F., & Li, H. (2024) · Sage Open · doi:10.1177/21582440241260474 · Cited by 40
Social exchange theory in leadership research: A problematizing review
Madison, K., Eva, N., De Cieri, H., & Goh, Z. (2025) · The Leadership Quarterly · doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2025.101924 · Cited by 22
Roh, T., Kim, M.-J., & Hong, Y. (2023) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su152215901 · Cited by 9
The Role of Compensation on Job Satisfaction, Employee Performance and Organisational Performance
Katabalo, C. V., & Mwita, K. M. (2024) · SCIENCE MUNDI · doi:10.51867/scimundi.4.1.12 · Cited by 7
Metadata
- Authors
- Ahmad, R., Nawaz, M. R., Ishaq, M. I., Khan, M. M., & Ashraf, H. A.
- Venue
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Published
- 2023-01-12
- Volume
- 13
- Pages
- 1015921-1015921
- ISSN
- 1664-1078 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4315640857
- Cited by
- 606
- References
- 6
- FWCI
- 33.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
