Solarino, AM and Buckley, PJ orcid.org/0000-0002-0450-5589 (2023) Equivalence in international business research: A three-step approach. Journal of International Business Studies, 54 (3). pp. 550-567. ISSN 0047-2506
Abstract
A primary research area within the field of international business (IB) is to establish the extent to which concepts, theories, and findings identified in one country are applicable to other contexts and which are unique and cannot be found in other contexts. Researchers in IB acknowledge the importance of the context in their studies, but the practice of assessing equivalence (or invariance) is not widely diffused within the community. We first discuss the components of equivalence (construct, method, and item equivalence), and we offer a three-step approach to address equivalence in the writing and revision of a paper. We aim to help editors, reviewers, and researchers produce more reliable research and navigate the tension between generalizable relationships and context-specific ones, both theoretically and empirically, before performing analysis and hypothesis testing. We then apply equivalence to the construct of firm economic performance as a case study, but the same logic can be applied to other constructs as well.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) |
Keywords: | construct equivalence; method equivalence; item equivalence; cross-country research methods; performance; invariance |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > International Business Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 11 Nov 2022 12:14 |
Last Modified: | 08 Nov 2023 14:20 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Identification Number: | 10.1057/s41267-022-00562-2 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:193116 |