Assessing the cross-national invariance of formative measures: Guidelines for international business researchers

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 360-370

  Diamantopoulos, Adamantios ^a   Papadopoulos, Nicolas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross cultural research measurement issues; Equivalency; Measurement and scale development issues; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 76849099485     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2009.37     Document Type: Article

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