Proposal of a validation framework for a new measurement model and its application to the export performance construct
Título del documento: Proposal of a validation framework for a new measurement model and its application to the export performance construct
Revista: BAR - Brazilian Administration Review
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Número de sistema: 000552837
ISSN: 1807-7692
Autores: 1
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Instituciones: 1Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro. Brasil
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Periodo: Oct-Dic
Volumen: 6
Número: 4
Paginación: 331-353
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Resumen en inglés This paper presents a comprehensive and integrated set of validation procedures to assess the satisfactoriness of measurement models of multifaceted constructs. The validation framework is then applied to a new measurement model of the economic domain of export performance, a construct for which agreement has not yet been reached in the literature concerning the appropriate representation of its complex nature. A sample of 414 large Brazilian exporters of manufactured products was collected, and five competing measurement models of the construct were proposed and comparatively assessed. Insights into the nature and structure of the construct are drawn. In the best fitting of the five tested models, export (venture) performance is represented as a two-dimensional construct - past export revenues and their growth, and past export profitability, with four and two operational indicators, respectively. The set of final indicators provides a reasonable coverage of several conceptual aspects of the phenomenon, namely absolute and relative measures as well as static and dynamic orientations. There is a thorough discussion of validation steps. The validation framework advanced here is generic and comprehensive enough to be employed for modeling other multifaceted constructs in the social sciences.
Disciplinas: Economía
Palabras clave: Econometría
Keyword: Construct measurement,
Validity,
Export performance,
Structural equation modeling,
Econometrics
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