Guidelines for Scale Development and Validation
ABSTRACT Scales, serving as measurement instruments composed of carefully designed items intended to capture latent constructs, play a critical role in advancing consumer theory and marketing practice. Yet, developing and validating scales poses a formidable challenge due to the diverse methods required to ensure rigor and robustness.
Weng Marc Lim +3 more
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The Moral Force of Guidelines: How Surgeons Use Evidence-Based Medicine to Curb Their Interventionism. [PDF]
Davis C.
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Early‐Stage Entrepreneurial Creativity: A Qualitative Study
ABSTRACT The creative process has long sparked debate over which types of relationships fuel it most effectively. Taking an interpretive interactionist perspective, we carry out a qualitative study of 30 technology entrepreneurs and 11 members of their “inner circle,” uncovering how friends and family serve a critical role in the creative process ...
Jessica Ruth Lenore Good
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When Diversity Meets Family Owners: ESG Performance in European Publicly Listed Firms
ABSTRACT This study investigates how the interaction between board diversity and family as owners shapes firms' ESG performance. Prior research has established that board diversity fosters more informed, ethical, and stakeholder‐oriented decision‐making, thereby enhancing corporate legitimacy and responsiveness to diverse stakeholder expectations ...
Giorgia Maria D'Allura +3 more
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Spectral interlocutions and the politics of unfinished: Buddhism, haunting, and memory in Karunatilaka's <i>The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida</i>. [PDF]
Humphry NM, I A.
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ESG Rating Disagreement and the Size of the Investable Universe Under ESG Consensus Rules
ABSTRACT Using ESG scores of listed US companies from Refinitiv, ESG Book, MSCI, Moody's ESG, Bloomberg, and Sustainalytics for the period 2003–2022, we examine the extent of ESG rating disagreement and how it shapes the investable universe under ESG consensus rules.
Christian Lohmann +2 more
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ABSTRACT This study explores the potential influence of key components of the board of directors' architecture on ESG outcomes. Specifically, we focus on the effects of demographic components (gender and cultural diversity), structural and compositional factors (size, CEO‐Chair separation, and the presence of independent/non‐executive directors), and ...
Jorge Ochaita‐Gonzalez +3 more
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Iran’s Shahriaran Rastakhize Opera: An Anthropological Interpretation
Mirzadeh Eshghi (1894–1924) was an innovative and patriotic Iranian poet. Mirzadeh is noted in the history of Iranian literature for pioneering a literary revolution and creating a new literary style.
Alireza Ghobadi
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Requiem of Olympic ethics and sports' independence: A panel-data socio-cultural analysis. [PDF]
Zagonari F.
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Evaluating Chicago Sociology: A Guide to the Literature, with an Annotated Bibliography
Horst Jürgen Helle, Lester R. Kurtz
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