Investigating the number of non-linear and multi-modal relationships between observed variables measuring growth-oriented atmosphere

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 869-890

  Nokelainen, P ^a   Silander, T ^b   Ruohotie, P ^a   Tirri, H ^c  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorical data; Non linear modeling; Organizational atmosphere; Structural equation modeling; Survey data

Indexed keywords

EID: 35948946045     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-006-9030-x     Document Type: Article

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