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Chang, Woojung, Franke, George R. and Lee, Nick (2016) Comparing reflective and formative measures : new insights from relevant simulations. Journal of Business Research, 69 (8). pp. 3177-3185. doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2015.12.006 ISSN 0148-2963.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2015.12.006
Abstract
Previous simulations comparing formative and reflective models specify formative population models as the only correct model for a given construct, and compare them with various mis-specified reflective models. However, this approach does not generalize to situations where both reflective and formative specifications can work well to assess constructs. To address this limitation, this study presents simulations in which both formative and reflective specifications fit the underlying population data equally well. The results show that reflective specifications generate less biased and more powerful results than formative specifications, and make a strong case for considering standardized rather than unstandardized coefficients for both specifications. Therefore, conceptual and empirical consequences of using reflective models for constructs that could also be modeled as formative are less dire than past research has suggested.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Marketing Group Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Business Research | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0148-2963 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | August 2016 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | 69 | ||||||||||
Number: | 8 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 3177-3185 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jbusres.2015.12.006 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 18 August 2016 | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 30 July 2017 |
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