Modeling the Economic Domain of the Export Performance Construct

Informações

Código: ESO1014
Divisão: ESO - Estratégia em Organizações
Tema de Interesse: ESO-B - Gestão Internacional

Autores

Jorge Carneiro, Angela da Rocha

Resumo

Several constructs in the social sciences exhibit a complex nature, which poses importantchallenges, both substantive and methodological, to their conceptualization and operationalrepresentation. Moreover, it has been recognized that developing appropriate representationsof concepts and “specifying the relationship between concepts and operational indicators isequally important to social research as the substantive theory linking concepts to one another”(Carmines and Zeller, 1979:11). In this paper we advance and test a new measurement modelof the economic domain of export performance, a construct that has not yet reachedagreement in the literature as to the appropriate representation of its complex nature. Toaccomplish this task, we assembled a comprehensive and integrated set of validationprocedures to assess the satisfactoriness of measurement models of multifaceted constructs. Asample of 414 large Brazilian exporters of manufactured products was collected and fivecompeting measurement models of the construct were proposed and comparatively assessed.The generic nature of the set of validation procedures makes it a readily available instrumentfor the validation of other complex constructs in several areas of research.

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