Toward the Analysis of Informativeness of Theories in Management: an Empirical Assessment Building on Miner's Criteria of Importance
Year: 2010
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: 4.2.2Theory Selection … … 48 4.2.3Comparing Theory Selection by Division … 49 4.2.4Familiarity and Perceived Importance … 50 4.2.5 Comparing Familiarity and Importance across theory selections … … 51 vii 4.2.6 Comparing Familiarity and Importance scores across division of respondents … … 53 4.2.7 Usage of Theory … … 54 4.2.8Highest Degree and professional experience … 54 4.3 Analysis of Response Bias … … 55 4.4 Descriptive Summary of Analysis Sample … 58 4.4.1 Distribution by Divisional membership and of theory selection across response and analysis samples … 58 4.4.2Familiarity, importance, use of theory and number of years since highest degree … … 59 4.5 Concluding remark … … 60 CHAPTER 5: RESULTS 5.1 Exploratory Factor Analysis … … 61 5.2 Internal Reliability … … 62 5.3 Confirmatory Factor Analyses: Measurement Models … 66 5.3.1 Multi-dimensionality of the study scale … 73 5.3.2Orthogonality, convergent and discriminant validity of first-order factors … … 74 5.3.3Fitting the theoretical model: Informativeness: a second-order factor composed of novelty, extendibility and practicability … 75 5.3.4Comparing Goodness of fit of alternative second-order models 76 5.3.5Additional comparison criterion: Nomological validity of the informativeness construct … … 78 viii 5.4 Full Structural model (with control variables) … 86 5.5 Regression Equations … … 88 5.6 Concluding Remark … … 94 CHAPTER 6: DISCUSSIONS AND CONCLUSION 6.1 Summary of dissertation … … 95 6.2 Implications of findings, and Contributions … 99 6.3 Limitations of the study and implications for future research … 100 6.4 Conclusion
Author: Jino O. Mwaka
Institution: Kent State University
Language: English
Subfield: Strategy and Management
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2550192042