Purpose Despite agreement on the importance of adopting governance structures for developing competitive advantage, we still know little about why or how governance mechanisms are adopted in the first place. We also ...

The decisions that politicians have to make with respect to foreign policy are in general very complex because the possible strategies have multiple uncertain consequences. For such complex problems the mathematical decision ...

In recent years, many different fit indices have been formulated as an alternative for the standard likelihood ratio test (LRT) of Structural Equation Models (SEM). These fit indices were developed to solve specific problems ...

In this chapter we want to establish whether the 3-item scale to measure generalized social trust (GST) in the European Social Survey (ESS) can be meaningfully used in comparative research. If so, we also want to study the ...

Although Agree/Disagree (A/D) rating scales are hugely popular in the social sciences, a large body of research conducted during more than five decades has documented the bias that results from acquiescence in responses ...

The split-ballot multitrait-multimethod (SB-MTMM) approach has been used to evaluate the measurement quality of questions in survey research. It aims to reduce the response burden of the classic MTMM design, which requires ...

It is a well-known fact that survey data always contains measurement errors, which can in different ways bias the results of an analysis (Alwin, 2007). In quantitative research, this problem has usually been ignored due ...

In this paper different criteria for the choice of an evaluation procedure for survey questions are discussed. Firstly, we mention a practical criterion: the amount of data collection the procedures require. Secondly, we ...

This dissertation studies the impact of the mode of data collection on the quality of answers to survey questions, defined as the product of reliability and validity. Using data from the Netherlands about different topics ...

The present paper suggests a statistical method, the latent class MTMM model, of estimating the quality of single questions while making fewer assumptions than have been made so far in such evaluations. The method is a ...