A Critical Review of Construct Indicators and Measurement Model Misspecification in Marketing and Consumer Research

By Cheryl Burke Jarvis, Scott B. MacKenzie, Philip M. Podsakoff. 2003

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Subfields: Marketing, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management

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Shackled to the Status Quo: The Inhibiting Effects of Incumbent System Habit, Switching Costs, and Inertia on New System Acceptance (2012, positive): “Drawing from the criteria of Jarvis et al. (2003), it is clear that the dimensions of each construct will not necessarily covary, are not interchangeable, do not necessarily have the same predictors, and together cause the construct.”
Ethical products and consumer involvement: what's new? (2010, background): “Consequently, the indicators should be defined as formative rather than reflective (Crié, 2005; Jarvis et al., 2003).”
The Impact of Knowledge Coordination on Virtual Team Performance Over Time (2007, methodology): “We used formative indicators because task-oriented communication is a function of task-oriented e-mail frequency and task-oriented e-mail volume, not the other way around (Diamantopoulos and Winklhofer 2001; Jarvis et al. 2003).”
The Use of Partial Least Squares Path Modeling in International Marketing (2009, background): “Such actions may substantially change the content of the formative index (Jarvis et al., 2003).”
Speed or quality? How the order of market entry influences the relationship between market orientation and new product performance (2011, background): “…generation, intelligence dissemination and responsiveness) are formative indicators of the MO index because, together, these behavioral components determine the overall level of MO (Coltman et al., 2008; Diamantopoulos and Winklhofer, 2001; Diamantopoulos et al., 2008; Jarvis et al., 2003).”
Unpacking the relationship between empowering leadership and service-oriented citizenship behaviors: a multilevel approach (2014, neutral): “In line with Jarvis et al. (2003), we conceptualized empowering leadership, psychological empowerment, and customer orientation as Type I second-order constructs (i.e., reflective second-order constructs with reflective first-order dimensions).”
Questions about formative measurement (2008, background): “Please cite this article as: Wilcox JB, et al, Questions about formative measurem appears to be easy (Diamantopoulos and Winklhofer, 2001; Jarvis et al., 2003; Podsakoff et al., 2003) many instances exist in which a potential indeterminacy from an examination of the items alone may occur, and the la”
The influence of family responsibilities, career fields and gender on career success (2008, background): “26; for a detailed discussion of reflective/formative measures, see, for example, Jarvis et al. , 2003”
Understanding Collaborative Consumption: An Extension of the Theory of Planned Behavior with Value-Based Personal Norms (2017, positive): “As we assume these relationships to be formative, that is, consumers’ attitudes and PBC to be caused by a set of beliefs they have, we operationalized them as multiple indicators, multiple causes (MIMIC) models in Amos as recommended by Jarvis et al. (2003).”
The effects of technostress within the context of employee use of ICT (2014, background): “The second condition is analyzed in the next section, while adhering to the first and third conditions means paying attention to (1) a census of the included items and (2) nomological and/or criterion-related validity (Jarvis et al., 2003).”
Incorporating Formative Measures into Covariance-Based Structural Equation Models (2011, background): “…in and applications of formative measurement in areas as diverse as organization research (e.g., Podsakoff et al. 2003), strategy (Podsakoff et al. 2006), marketing (e.g., Jarvis et al. 2003), quality of life research (e.g., Fayers and Hand 2002), and information systems (e.g., Petter et al. 2007).”