Improper use of endogenous formative variables

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 233-241

  Cadogan, John W ^a   Lee, Nick ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Composite variables; Conceptual models; Formative latent variables; Measurement; Partial least squares; Theory development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870573274     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2012.08.006     Document Type: Article

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