Assessing the cross-national invariance of formative measures: guidelines for international business researchers

The importance of establishing equivalence in measurement prior to conducting substantive cross-country comparisons has long been emphasized in international business research. However, all approaches currently available for the investigation of measurement equivalence or invariance (ME/I) assume th...

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Main Authors:	Adamantios Diamantopoulos, Nicolas Papadopoulos
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Published:	2010
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spelling	rr-article-94985182010-01-01T00:00:00Z Assessing the cross-national invariance of formative measures: guidelines for international business researchers Adamantios Diamantopoulos (1251660) Nicolas Papadopoulos (7197962) Other commerce, management, tourism and services not elsewhere classified untagged Business and Management not elsewhere classified The importance of establishing equivalence in measurement prior to conducting substantive cross-country comparisons has long been emphasized in international business research. However, all approaches currently available for the investigation of measurement equivalence or invariance (ME/I) assume that the focal measures are reflective in nature. In our paper we offer guidelines for the assessment of ME/I when the focal construct is measured with formative indicators. We first identify distinct types of ME/I that are conceptually consistent with the nature of formative measurement models. We then describe a step-by-step procedure that can be employed to test for these types of ME/I in a comparative context. Lastly, we illustrate the application of the proposed procedure with data from a three-country survey on consumers product-country image perceptions. © 2010 Academy of International Business 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Text Journal contribution 2134/16009 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Assessing_the_cross-national_invariance_of_formative_measures_guidelines_for_international_business_researchers/9498518 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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spellingShingle	Other commerce, management, tourism and services not elsewhere classified untagged Business and Management not elsewhere classified Adamantios Diamantopoulos Nicolas Papadopoulos Assessing the cross-national invariance of formative measures: guidelines for international business researchers
description	The importance of establishing equivalence in measurement prior to conducting substantive cross-country comparisons has long been emphasized in international business research. However, all approaches currently available for the investigation of measurement equivalence or invariance (ME/I) assume that the focal measures are reflective in nature. In our paper we offer guidelines for the assessment of ME/I when the focal construct is measured with formative indicators. We first identify distinct types of ME/I that are conceptually consistent with the nature of formative measurement models. We then describe a step-by-step procedure that can be employed to test for these types of ME/I in a comparative context. Lastly, we illustrate the application of the proposed procedure with data from a three-country survey on consumers product-country image perceptions. © 2010 Academy of International Business
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author	Adamantios Diamantopoulos Nicolas Papadopoulos
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title	Assessing the cross-national invariance of formative measures: guidelines for international business researchers
title_short	Assessing the cross-national invariance of formative measures: guidelines for international business researchers
title_full	Assessing the cross-national invariance of formative measures: guidelines for international business researchers
title_fullStr	Assessing the cross-national invariance of formative measures: guidelines for international business researchers
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Assessing the cross-national invariance of formative measures: guidelines for international business researchers

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