The effect of misspecification of reflective and formative constructs in operations and manufacturing management research

Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 34-52

  Roy, Subhadip ^a   Tarafdar, Monideepa ^b   Ragu Nathan, T S ^b   Marsillac, Erica ^b  

^a IFHE UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Formative; Measurement models; Model misspecification; Pls; Reflective; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865404927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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