A comprehensive assessment of measurement equivalence in operations management

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 166-182

  Knoppen, Desirée ^a   Ateş, Melek Akin ^b   Brandon Jones, Alistair ^c   Luzzini, Davide ^d   Van Raaij, Erik ^b   Wynstra, Finn ^b  

^a EADA BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d School of Management   (Italy)

Author keywords

measurement equivalence; Operations Management (OM); survey research

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; SURVEYS;

COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT; EMPIRICAL OPERATIONS MANAGEMENTS; INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS; MEASUREMENT EQUIVALENCE; OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT; PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT; PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT; SURVEY RESEARCH;

EQUIVALENCE CLASSES;

EID: 84911991557     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2014.944629     Document Type: Article

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