Investigating two contradictory views of formative measurement in information systems research

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 34, Issue SPEC. ISSUE 2, 2010, Pages 345-365

  Kim, Gimun ^a   Grover, Varun ^b   Shin, Bongsik ^c  

^a Konyang University   (South Korea)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

External con sistency; Formative indicators; Formative measurement; Information systems measures; Interpretational confounding; Measurement instability; Measurement models

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION USE; SPECIFICATIONS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

BANDWAGON EFFECT; EXTERNAL CON-SISTENCY; FORMATIVE MEASUREMENTS; INTERPRETATIONAL CONFOUNDING; MEASUREMENT MODEL; MODEL ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL TOOLS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; EXTERNAL CONSISTENCY; FORMATIVE INDICATORS; FORMATIVE MEASUREMENT; KEYWORDS:; MEASUREMENT MODELS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MEASUREMENTS;

EID: 77957053448     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/20721431     Document Type: Article

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