Longitudinal research: The theory, design, and analysis of change

Journal of Management

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 94-120

  Ployhart, Robert E ^a   Vandenberg, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Change; Growth modeling; Hierarchical linear modeling; HLM; Longitudinal research; SEM; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 73949160676     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: 15571211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0149206309352110     Document Type: Article

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