The negative consequences of measurement model misspecification: A response to Aguirre-Urreta and Marakas

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 139-146

  Jarvis, Cheryl Burke ^a   MacKenzie, Scott B ^b   Podsakoff, Philip M ^b  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL TESTING; MEASUREMENT MODEL; STRUCTURAL MODELS; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT;

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84859821550     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/41410410     Document Type: Article

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