Measurement Malaise in Strategic Management Studies: The Case of Corporate Governance Research

Organizational Research Methods

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 88-99

  Dalton, Dan R ^a   Aguinis, Herman ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

construct validation procedures; measurement models; philosophy of science; reliability and validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873633806     PISSN: 10944281     EISSN: 15527425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094428112470846     Document Type: Article

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