Data equivalence in cross-cultural international business research: assessment and guidelines

By G. Tomas M. Hult, Dave J. Ketchen, David A. Griffith, Carol Finnegan, Tracy L. Gonzalez-Padron, Nukhet Harmancioglu, Ying Huang, M. Talay, S. Tamer Cavusgil. 2008

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Marketing, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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A Cross-Cultural Assessment of Three Theories of Pro-Environmental Behavior (2011, result): “Although the results from our current research are promising, the full generalizability from our sample of students to managers will provide insight on the stability of the phenomena observed in our study (Hult et al., 2008; Peterson, 2001).”
On the value relevance of customer satisfaction. Multiple drivers and multiple markets (2012, methodology): “In accordance with Houston’ s( 2004) framework for validating secondary data proxies for constructs (see also Houston and Johnson 2000 ), numerous studies in different research fields, such as marketing (e.g., Balasubramanian et al. 2005; Mittal et al. 1999; Srinivasan et al. 2011) and empirical ec”
Cultural values, emotional intelligence, and conflict handling styles: A global study (2016, methodology): “We followed the recommendations in the literature (Byrne, 2008; Byrne & van De Vijver, 2010; Hult et al., 2008) and conducted confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) for each cultural cluster independently to assess the reliability and validity of all constructs and to obtain the best fitting measurement”
Multigroup Analysis using SmartPLS: Step-by-Step Guidelines for Business Research (2020, positive): “Hult et al. (2008) stressed that failure to establish invariance can easily lead to the low power of statistical tests, the poor precision of estimators, and misleading results.”
Revisiting the firm, industry, and country effects on profitability under recessionary and expansion periods: : A multilevel analysis (2016, result): “These efforts will surely lend further evidence for the findings reported in the present study based on both performance variables selected and data equivalence issues explored across types of countries (e.g., Hult et al. 2008a, 2008b).”
How culture moulds the effects of self-efficacy and fear of failure on entrepreneurship (2013, background): “Although single-item measures were motivated due to cross-country equivalence (Hult et al. 2008; Runyan et al. 2012), further research is needed to ascertain perceptions related to entrepreneurship.”
Cultural and language skills as resources for boundary spanning within the MNC (2014, methodology): “To ensure data and measurement equivalence (Hult et al., 2008) and the reliability of the coding, we first piloted the coding sheet through a process in which all four co-authors separately coded one interview, compared, and discussed the outcomes in detail, and reached agreement on interpretations ”
Intention to visit and willingness to pay premium for ecotourism: The impact of attitude, materialism, and motivation (2015, background): “This study tests the hypotheses by surveying both Swedish (Western context) and Taiwanese (Eastern context) potential ecotourists in order to control for the potential bias of relying on a single sample (Zhang, Beatty, & Walsh, 2008) and to investigate the model's generalizability across different c”
Drivers of local food consumption: A comparative study (2015, methodology): “To ensure Chilean respondents could understand the scale items, the questionnaire was translated into Spanish, and then back-translated into English by two bi-lingual university academics independent of the study (Van de Vijver and Leung, 2000, Hult et al., 2008).”
Corporate environmental responsibility, employer reputation and employee commitment: an empirical study in developed and emerging economies (2014, methodology): “Although we followed the recommendations of Hult et al. (2008) to improve data equivalence between the four countries in our study, such as random selection of respondents from a representative sample, testing for nonresponse bias and ensuring cross-national measurement equivalence, we cannot…”
The moderating role of past experience in the formation of a tourist destination's image and in tourists’ behavioural intentions (2013, methodology): “This enables a lack of precision in the parameters to be avoided, and ensures that there is no reduction in the statistical power of the hypothesis tests (Hult et al., 2008).”
Improving generalizations from multi-country comparisons in international business research (2010, background): “SAMPLE SIZES IN IB RESEARCH In a survey of cross-cultural studies in leading IB journals from 1995 through 2005, Hult et al. (2008) indicate that almost half examined either two countries (30%) or three countries (19%).”
Investigating the factors influencing the adoption of m-banking: A cross cultural study (2015, methodology): “To ensure Thai respondents could understand the scale items, the questionnaire was translated into Thai, and then back-translated into English by two bi-lingual university academics independent of the study (Hult et al., 2008; Van de Vijver & Leung, 2000).”
Entrepreneurial Orientation, Firm Performance, and the Moderating Role of Transformational Leadership Behaviors (2015, background): “Data were gathered from all countries during the same time period (the first half of 2010) in order to ensure temporal equivalence (Hult et al., 2008).”