Overstating and understating interaction results in international business research

Journal of World Business

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 286-295

  Kingsley, Allison F ^a   Noordewier, Thomas G ^a   Vanden Bergh, Richard G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional hypotheses; Interactions; Marginal effect; Moderating variables; Regression; Research methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009804134     PISSN: 10909516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2016.12.010     Document Type: Article

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