Revisiting bias due to construct misspecification: Different results from considering coefficients in standardized form

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Aguirre Urreta, Miguel I ^a   Marakas, George M ^b  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Construct specification; Formative; Reflective; Simulations; Standardized coefficients; Unstandardized Coefficients

Indexed keywords

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CONSTRUCT SPECIFICATIONS; FORMATIVE; REFLECTIVE; SIMULATIONS; STANDARDIZED COEFFICIENTS; UNSTANDARDIZED COEFFICIENTS;

SPECIFICATIONS;

EID: 84859818455     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/41410409     Document Type: Article

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