Moderation in Management Research: What, Why, When, and How

Journal of Business and Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-19

  Dawson, Jeremy F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Interactions; Moderation; Regression; Simple slopes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893833239     PISSN: 08893268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10869-013-9308-7     Document Type: Article

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