Conflating antecedents and formative indicators: A comment on Aguirre-Urreta and Marakas

Information Systems Research

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 780-784

  Rigdon, Edward E ^a   Becker, Jan Michael ^b   Rai, Arun ^a   Ringle, Christian M ^c,d   Diamantopoulos, Adamantios ^e   Karahanna, Elena ^f   Straub, Detmar W ^g,h,i   Dijkstra, Theo K ^j  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^g GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ Korea University   (South Korea)

^j UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

Endogenous constructs; Formative indicators; Partial least squares

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

ENDOGENOUS CONSTRUCTS; FORMATIVE MEASUREMENTS; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE (PLS); PATH MODELS; POPULATION DATA; POPULATION MODEL; RESEARCH DESIGNS; SIMULATION DATA;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 84923287035     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.2014.0543     Document Type: Article

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