in this study, the effect of environmental concern, attitudes and behaviors of the university students on the environmentally conscious purchasing behavior was investigated with the help of structural equation model (sem). sem is an effective data analysis tool that expresses the complicated causative relations between the latent variables. in this study, we collected the data from 400 univers...

the present study investigated the mediating role of organizational citizenship behavior (ocb) in the relationship between job satisfaction, turnover, and organizational identification. the population of the present study included all employees working at tehran municipality at district 2 and the sample consisted of 260 employees selected using random sampling and cochran formula. the research ...

Multilevel modeling (MLM) is frequently used to detect group differences, such as an intervention effect in a pre-test–post-test cluster-randomized design. Group differences on the post-test scores are detected by controlling for pre-test scores as a proxy variable for unobserved factors that predict future attributes. The pre-test and post-test scores that are most often used in MLM are summed...

Since the amount spent on information technology (IT) keeps on increasing with time, senior management is rightly concerned with the evaluation of their capital investments in IT. However, despite significant progress in evaluating the productivity impacts from corporate investment in IT, the inability of traditional economic measures to fully account for intangible impacts has led to for calls...

A recent article in the Journal of Management gives a critique of a Bayesian approach to factor analysis proposed in Psychological Methods. This commentary responds to the authors’ critique by clarifying key issues, especially the use of priors for residual covariances. A discussion is also presented of cross-loadings and model selection tools. Simulated data are used to illustrate the ideas. A...

How to provide users a positive experience during interaction with information (i.e., the “Information eXperience” (IX)) is still an open question. As a starting point, this work investigates how the emotion of interest can be influenced by modifying the complexity of the information presented to users. The appraisal theory of interest suggests a “sweet spot” where interest will be at its peak:...

We derive a closed form expression for the asymptotic distribution of the LIML estimator for the coefficients of both endogenous and exogenous variables in a partially identified linear structural equation. We extend previous results of Phillips (1989) and Choi and Phillips (1992) where the focus was on IV estimators. We show that partial failure of identification affects the LIML in that its m...

the current study aims to examine the impact of psychological capital and organizational commitment on the quality of the offered services to the clients by the counter staffs of ansar bank. in this research, the theoretical model and the theories between the variables were first developed and  structural equation was used to examine research theories. ansar bank counter staffs of tehran city a...

This paper deals with the problem of identifying direct causal effects in recursive linear structural equation models. The paper provides a procedure for solving the identification problem in a special class of models.

A recent article in the Journal of Management gives a critique of a Bayesian approach to factor analysis proposed in Psychological Methods. This commentary responds to the authors’ critique by clarifying key issues, especially the use of priors for residual covariances. A discussion is also presented of cross-loadings and model selection tools. Simulated data are used to illustrate the ideas. A...