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

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Diamantopoulos, Adamantios; Papadopoulos, Nicolas
• 署名单位: University of Vienna; Carleton University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2009.37
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 360-370
• 关键词: cross-cultural research/measurement issues; equivalency; measurement and scale development issues; structural equation modeling

摘要

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. Journal of International Business Studies (2010) 41, 360-370. doi:10.1057/jibs.2009.37