 A systematic literature review of exploratory factor analyses in managementMatt C. Howard Journal of Business Research, 2023, vol. 164, issue C Abstract: We review the application and reporting of exploratory factor analysis (EFA) in management. First, we integrate recommendations from relevant reviews and simulation studies to provide modern guidelines regarding EFA for psychometric investigation, and we highlight severe concerns associated with EFA for Harman’s one-factor test. Second, we conduct a systematic literature review including 1,790 articles and 3,396 EFAs from 23 premier journals since the year 2000. Our review reveals that many widespread guidelines for EFA are infrequently applied. We also show that researchers regularly fail to report essential aspects of their EFAs, leaving it unknown whether they are correctly conducting their analyses. Third, our discussion reinforces modern recommendations that are infrequently applied, exposes researchers to emerging developments, and provides new factor loading interpretations based on our systematic review results. To conclude, we provide step-by-step visual guides and a checklist to aid future researchers on their application and reporting of EFA. Keywords: Exploratory factor analysis; Factor analysis; One-factor test; Principal components analysis; Confirmatory factor analysis; Factor rotation (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jbrese:v:164:y:2023:i:c:s0148296323003272 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113969 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Business Research is currently edited by A. G. Woodside More articles in Journal of Business Research from Elsevier |
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