Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology

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Volume 48, issue 6, 2014

Targeting writing interventions to emotional processing level: a factorial experimental design pp. 2939-2962

Cheryl Maddalena, Ruth Saxey-Reese and Elizabeth Barnes

A data mining algorithm for fuzzy transaction data pp. 2963-2971

Chin-Yuan Chen, Gin-Shuh Liang, Yuhling Su and Mao-Sheng Liao

Acceptability of energy sources using an integration of the Delphi method and the analytic hierarchy process pp. 2973-2991

Simone Di Zio and Mara Maretti

Perceived crisis management and its effect on re-election: the case of local government in Israel under the Second Lebanon War pp. 2993-3011

Amir Horkin, Ytzhak Katz and Baruch Mevorach

Troubled groups in situation: qualitative analysis of psychotherapeutic sessions with deviant adolescents pp. 3013-3024

Eugenio Gregorio, Martina Gallon and Alfredo Verde

The dimensional assessment of personality in drug addicts: a mixed-effects Rasch model approach pp. 3025-3036

Annalina Sarra, Lara Fontanella, Fausto D’Egidio and Paolo Frattone

Quality and quantity in the construction and validation of a psychological test for the assessment and selection of aspiring volunteer rescuers: the action-research in an Italian health association pp. 3037-3051

Riccardo Sartori, Andrea Ceschi, Serena Cubico and Giuseppe Favretto

Model-based approach for importance–performance analysis pp. 3053-3064

Federica Cugnata and Silvia Salini

Exploring the root causes of terrorism in South Asia: everybody should be concerned pp. 3065-3079

Ghulam Akhmat, Khalid Zaman, Tan Shukui and Faiza Sajjad

Mobbing in Turkish health institutions pp. 3081-3092

Ozgur Kokalan and Elvin Tigrel

Living in and living out: a qualitative study of incarcerated mothers’ narratives of their children’s living condition pp. 3093-3107

Nahid Rahimipour Anaraki and Dariush Boostani

Overly ambitious: contributions and current status of Q methodology pp. 3109-3126

Jarl Kampen and Peter Tamás

The key performance indicators (KPIs) and their impact on overall organizational performance pp. 3127-3143

Muhammad Bhatti, H. Awan and Z. Razaq

The element of surprise: the diverse impact of slightly alternative specifications of context on opinion formation in multi-level modeling pp. 3145-3152

Marijn Klingeren and Rens Vliegenthart

The quality movement in hospital care pp. 3153-3167

Jeffrey Jarrett

Exploring competitiveness in banking sector of a small island economy: a study of Fiji pp. 3169-3183

Ronald Kumar and Arvind Patel

Ridge regression and its degrees of freedom pp. 3185-3193

Theo Dijkstra

The policy delphi method: contribution to policy and strategy within energy organisations: a 2013 Malaysian case study with global implications pp. 3195-3208

Mary McGeoch, Yvonne Brunetto and Kerry Brown

Application of quantitative techniques in urban and regional studies pp. 3209-3219

Musibau Jelili

Multivariate-based Granger causality between financial deepening and poverty: the case of Pakistan pp. 3221-3241

Ijaz Rehman and Muhammad Shahbaz

Sequential probit modelling of family and community effects on educational progress among children to Polish and Turkish immigrants in Sweden pp. 3243-3252

Gebrenegus Ghilagaber and Paraskevi Peristera

Types of motions as proposed in the Dutch House of Representatives pp. 3253-3269

Mariska Goeree and Roel Popping

Do missing values exist? Incomplete data handling in cross-national longitudinal studies by means of continuous time modeling pp. 3271-3288

Johan Oud and Manuel Voelkle

The dynamics of social agreement according to Conceptual Agreement Theory pp. 3289-3309

Enrique Canessa and Sergio Chaigneau

Corporate social responsibility and corporate performance: a quantile regression approach pp. 3311-3325

Hsin-Hong Kang and Shu-Bing Liu

Specifying and assessing a formative measure for Hofstede’s cultural values: a Malaysian study pp. 3327-3342

Lei Thien, Ramayah Thurasamy and Nordin Abd Razak

Self-reported cheating in web surveys on political knowledge pp. 3343-3354

Carsten Jensen and Jens Thomsen

Misconceptions emerging in mathematics student teachers’ limit instruction and their reflections pp. 3355-3372

Semiha Kula and Esra Güzel

Exploring the connections among spiritual leadership, altruism, and trust in family businesses pp. 3373-3400

Nurten Dede and Evren Ayranci

A generalized maximum entropy (GME) approach for crisp-input/fuzzy-output regression model pp. 3401-3414

Enrico Ciavolino and Antonio Calcagnì

Critical factors associated with relationship conflicts and group atmosphere among Taiwanese adolescents pp. 3415-3432

Lieh-Ching Chang and Maja Zelihic

The effects of health transformation program on patient–healthcare personnel communication and interaction in Turkey pp. 3433-3446

Ozkan Tutuncu, Aslihan Cobaner, Osman Guzelgoz, Ayhan Cetin, Mihriban Malkoc and Salih Mollahaliloglu

Clustering eurozone cycles pp. 3447-3462

Chee-Heong Quah

Irreducible complexities: from Gödel and Turing to the paradigm of Imperfect Knowledge Economics pp. 3463-3474

Giuseppe Garofalo

Contextual analyses with QCA-methods pp. 3475-3487

Thomas Denk and Sarah Lehtinen

Exploring the relationship between freedom from corruption and business governance in the Oceania region pp. 3489-3509

Suwastika Naidu and Anand Chand

Volume 48, issue 5, 2014

Multi-stage evaluation and selection in the formation process of complex creative solution pp. 2375-2404

Wei Zhang and Qingpu Zhang

The inverted Mevorach management pyramid revisited: lessons from the January 2013 19th parliamentary elections in Israel pp. 2405-2409

Baruch Mevorach

The influence of greenwash on green word-of-mouth (green WOM): the mediation effects of green perceived quality and green satisfaction pp. 2411-2425

Yu-Shan Chen, Chang-Liang Lin and Ching-Hsun Chang

Moving up. Applying aggregate level time series analysis in the study of media coverage pp. 2427-2445

Rens Vliegenthart

Mother–child interaction: a qualitative investigation of imprisoned mothers pp. 2447-2461

Nahid Rahimipour Anaraki and Dariush Boostani

Methods of soliciting self-reported chronic conditions in population surveys: don’t ask, don’t report? pp. 2463-2477

Amber Bielecky and Peter Smith

Assessment of meaningful change in routine outcome measurement (ROM) with a combination of a longitudinal and a ‘classify and count’ approach pp. 2479-2499

Pietro Lovaglio and Alberto Parabiaghi

Corporate governance and corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting: an empirical evidence from commercial banks (CB) of Pakistan pp. 2501-2521

Mehmoona Sharif and Kashif Rashid

Methods for analyzing decision-making: a framework approach pp. 2523-2535

Jon Nyhlén and Gustav Lidén

Exploring the nexus between capital inflows and growth in Latin America and the Caribbean: a study of clusters led by Brazil and Mexico pp. 2537-2552

Ronald Kumar

Gender fluidity across the world: a Multilevel Item Response Theory approach pp. 2553-2568

Lara Fontanella, Mara Maretti and Annalina Sarra

Sorting it out: pile sorting as a mixed methodology for exploring barriers to cancer screening pp. 2569-2587

Hung-Wen Yeh, Byron Gajewski, David Perdue, Angel Cully, Lance Cully, K. Greiner, Won Choi and Christine Daley

Volatility linkages in the spot and futures market in Australia: a copula approach pp. 2589-2603

Cuong Nguyen, Muhammad Bhatti and Aziz Hayat

How does industry use social networking sites? An analysis of corporate dialogic uses of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn by industry type pp. 2605-2614

Daejoong Kim, Jang-Hyun Kim and Yoonjae Nam

Interviewing and surveying over the phone: a reflexive account of a research on parenting pp. 2615-2630

Dafne Muntanyola Saura and Pedro Romero Balsas

Global estimates of growth–inequality–poverty (GIP) triangle: evidence from World Bank’s classification countries pp. 2631-2646

Muhammad Khan, Muhammad Khan, Khalid Zaman, Umar Hassan and Sobia Umar

The co-occurrence of self-observed norm-conforming behavior, reduction of zero observations and remaining measurement quality pp. 2647-2656

Johannes Landsheer

Homophily and heterophily in personal networks. From mutual acquaintance to relationship intensity pp. 2657-2670

Carlos Lozares, Joan Verd, Irene Cruz and Oriol Barranco

Understanding the effects of political influence behaviors on informal performances pp. 2671-2685

Ozge Mehtap

Comparative trends in global communication networks of #Kpop tweets pp. 2687-2702

Minjeong Kim, Yun-Cheol Heo, Seong-Cheol Choi and Han Park

On the choice of measures of reliability and validity in the content-analysis of texts pp. 2703-2718

Anton Oleinik, Irina Popova, Svetlana Kirdina and Tatyana Shatalova

How to develop a customer satisfaction scale with optimal construct validity pp. 2719-2737

Maarten Terpstra, Ton Kuijlen and Klaas Sijtsma

Inference of the Russian drug community from one of the largest social networks in the Russian Federation pp. 2739-2755

L. Dijkstra, A. Yakushev, P. Duijn, A. Boukhanovsky and P. Sloot

Time series analysis of the nexus among corruption, political instability and judicial inefficiency in Pakistan pp. 2757-2771

Aisha Ismail and Kashif Rashid

Mixed strategies for improving data quality: the contribution of qualitative procedures to survey research pp. 2773-2790

Sergio Mauceri

Ethnographic studies of social causation: observing conjunctures of action sequences in particular settings pp. 2791-2800

Shanyang Zhao

Impact of financial development on SAARC’S human development pp. 2801-2816

Ghulam Akhmat, Khalid Zaman and Tan Shukui

The behaviour of repeat visitors to museums: review and empirical findings pp. 2817-2840

Juan Brida, Marta Disegna and Raffaele Scuderi

Use of mixed methods designs in substance research: a methodological necessity in Nigeria pp. 2841-2857

Emeka Dumbili

Socioeconomic inequality in health-related behaviors: a lifestyle approach pp. 2859-2879

Valeria Glorioso and Maurizio Pisati

Exploring the role of technology, tourism and financial development: an empirical study of Vietnam pp. 2881-2898

Ronald Kumar

How are newspaper companies using social media to engage and connect with their audiences? characteristics and forms of Korean newspapers’ YouTube use pp. 2899-2914

Yun Heo and Han Park

A statistical study of racism in English football pp. 2915-2937

Jeffrey Chu, Saralees Nadarajah, Emmanuel Afuecheta, Stephen Chan and Ying Xu

Volume 48, issue 4, 2014

Networks, topology and dynamics pp. 1817-1819

Silvana Stefani and Anna Torriero

Measuring dynamics and structural change of time-dependent socio-economic networks pp. 1821-1834

Marco Fattore and Rosanna Grassi

Network analysis of exchange data: interdependence drives crisis contagion pp. 1835-1851

David Matesanz and Guillermo Ortega

Leaders emergence in artificial populations: the role of networks pp. 1853-1865

Arianna Dal Forno and Ugo Merlone

Patterns of university–industry interactions in Brazil: an exploratory analysis using the instrumental of graph theory pp. 1867-1892

Renata Del-Vecchio, Jorge Britto and Bruno Oliveira

Network of companies: an analysis of market concentration in the Italian stock market pp. 1893-1910

Giulia Rotundo and Anna D’Arcangelis

Bowling alone but tweeting together: the evolution of human interaction in the social networking era pp. 1911-1927

Angelo Antoci, Fabio Sabatini and Mauro Sodini

Informal ties in organizations: a case study pp. 1929-1943

Marco D’Errico, Silvana Stefani and Anna Torriero

Quantum models for decision making and opinion dynamics the role of the Lie algebras pp. 1945-1956

C. Sarris and A. Proto

Reasoning under uncertainty and multi-criteria decision making in data privacy pp. 1957-1972

Bice Cavallo, Gerardo Canfora, Livia D’Apuzzo and Massimo Squillante

Predicament of identity in Iran: a qualitative meta-analysis of theoretical and empirical studies on identity pp. 1973-1994

Ahmad Mohammadpur, Jalil Karimi and Karim Mahmoodi

Double symmetry model and its decompositions in square contingency tables having ordered categories pp. 1995-2005

Bayo Lawal and Richard Sundheim

The evolving role of agricultural technology indicators and economic growth in rural poverty: has the ideas machine broken down? pp. 2007-2022

Muhammad Khan, Muhammad Khan, Khalid Zaman and Muhammad Khan

An empirical study on the nexus between the emotional intelligence of top managers and their assessment of intellectual capital pp. 2023-2052

Evren Ayranci and Nurdan Çolakoğlu

Analysis and construction of stress relief model for healthy indoor environments pp. 2053-2067

Hsi-Chin Chen, Ching-Hsin Wang, Kuen-Suan Chen and Tsu-Liang Chang

Survey topic and unit nonresponse pp. 2069-2088

Doreen Zillmann, Andreas Schmitz, Jan Skopek and Hans-Peter Blossfeld

Current practice in the modelling of age, period and cohort effects with panel data: a commentary on Tawfik et al. (2012), Clarke et al. (2009), and McCulloch (2012) pp. 2089-2095

Andrew Bell and Kelvyn Jones

Does economic liberalization promote economic growth in Pakistan? An empirical analysis pp. 2097-2119

Qazi Muhammad Hye, Wee Yeap Lau and Marie-Aimée Tourres

A note on pro-poor social expenditures pp. 2121-2154

Khalid Zaman and Bashir Khilji

An unbiased model comparison test using cross-validation pp. 2155-2173

Bruce Desmarais and Jeffrey Harden

The role of villages in households’ poverty exit: evidence from a multilevel model for rural Vietnam pp. 2175-2189

Bruno Arpino and Arnstein Aassve

The effects of information sharing and interactivity on the intention to use social networking websites pp. 2191-2207

Fan-Yun Pai and Tsu-Ming Yeh

Visual displays: analytical study and applications to graphs and real data pp. 2209-2224

K. Fernández-Aguirre, M. Garín-Martín and J. Modroño-Herrán

A fuzzy set theory based computational model to represent the quality of inter-rater agreement pp. 2225-2240

Enrico Ciavolino, Sergio Salvatore and Antonio Calcagnì

Gender differences in positive perceptions, anxiety, and depression among mothers and fathers of children with intellectual disabilities: a logistic regression analysis pp. 2241-2253

Rosa Vilaseca, Fina Ferrer and Joan Guardia Olmos

Data analysis in the context of teacher training: code sequence analysis using QDA Miner $$^{\circledR }$$ ® pp. 2255-2276

Antoine Derobertmasure and Jean Robertson

Extending monitoring methods to textual data: a research agenda pp. 2277-2294

Triss Ashton, Nicholas Evangelopoulos and Victor Prybutok

Role of health expenditure and ICT in a small island economy: a study of Fiji pp. 2295-2311

Ronald Kumar and Madhukar Singh

A model of state secularism pp. 2313-2327

Vikas Kumar

A novel rater agreement methodology for language transcriptions: evidence from a nonhuman speaker pp. 2329-2339

Allison Kaufman, Erin Colbert-White and Robert Rosenthal

Who would engage in unethical behavior? Should organizations bear the responsibility? pp. 2341-2354

Chia-Yi Cheng, Chia-Hung Hsieh and Yu-Song Yang

Estimating intercoder reliability: a structural equation modeling approach pp. 2355-2369

Guangchao Feng

Erratum to: A fuzzy AHP approach to construct international hotel spa atmosphere evaluation model pp. 2371-2371

Yen-Cheng Chen, Tung-Han Yu, Pei-Ling Tsui and Ching-Sung Lee

Erratum to: Examining the relations between open innovation climate and job satisfaction with a PLS path model pp. 2373-2373

Ching-Sung Lee, Yen-Cheng Chen, Pei-Ling Tsui and Tung-Han Yu

Volume 48, issue 3, 2014

An alternative procedure for imputing missing data based on principal components analysis pp. 1149-1163

Giovanni Di Franco

The impacts of investor sentiment on returns and conditional volatility of international stock markets pp. 1165-1179

Utku Uygur and Oktay Taş

Testing the impact of educational expenditures on economic growth: new evidence from Latin American countries pp. 1181-1190

Burcu Kiran

The impact of faking on Cronbach’s alpha for dichotomous and ordered rating scores pp. 1191-1211

Massimiliano Pastore and Luigi Lombardi

Should I take this seriously? A simple checklist for calling bullshit on policy supporting research pp. 1213-1223

Jarl Kampen and Peter Tamás

Corporate hyperlink network relationships in global corporate social responsibility system pp. 1225-1242

Yoonjae Nam, George Barnett and Daejoong Kim

Effects of sport mega-events on city brand awareness and image: using the 2009 world games in Kaohsiung as an example pp. 1243-1256

Cheng-Jong Lee

Sustainability matters pp. 1257-1269

Charles-Henri DiMaria

A PLS path model to investigate the relations between institutions and human development pp. 1271-1290

Silvia Terzi, Attilio Trezzini and L. Moroni

Phenomenology and hermeneutic phenomenology: the philosophy, the methodologies, and using hermeneutic phenomenology to investigate lecturers’ experiences of curriculum design pp. 1291-1303

Art Sloan and Brian Bowe

Employability and mental health in dismissed workers: the contribution of lay-off justice and participation in outplacement services pp. 1305-1323

Francesca De Battisti, Silvia Gilardi, Elena Siletti and Luca Solari

Measuring trustworthiness of information diffusion by risk discovery process in social networking services pp. 1325-1336

Jason Jung

Deprived or not deprived? Comparing the measured extent of material deprivation using the UK government’s and the Poverty and Social Exclusion surveys’ method of calculating material deprivation pp. 1337-1346

Morag Treanor

Extreme value analysis for emerging African markets pp. 1347-1360

Saralees Nadarajah, Stephen Chan and Emmanuel Afuecheta

Economic uncertainty and growth performance: a macroeconomic modeling analysis for Pakistan pp. 1361-1387

Amber Fatima and Abdul Waheed

Child malnutrition in developing economies: a case study of Bangladesh pp. 1389-1408

Rana Khan and Muhammad Ali Raza

Perceptions of poverty attributions in Europe: a multilevel mixture model approach pp. 1409-1419

Leonor Costa and José Dias

Measuring health expenditures and outcomes in saarc region: health is a luxury? pp. 1421-1437

Syeda Hassan, Khalid Zaman, Sajid Zaman and Muhammad Shabir

A cointegration approach to modeling human capital formation, self-employment, and economic growth: evidence from Pakistan pp. 1439-1453

Ijaz Rehman, Nurul Mahdzan, Alexandru Trifu and Muhammad Bilal

Combining strengths of methods of party positioning to counter their weaknesses: the development of a new methodology to calibrate parties on issues and ideological dimensions pp. 1455-1472

André Krouwel and Annemarie Elfrinkhof

A Bayesian network to discover relationships between negative features in sport: a case study of teen players pp. 1473-1491

P. Fuster-Parra, A. García-Mas, F. Ponseti, P. Palou and J. Cruz

A quantitative view on policymakers’ goal, institutions and tax evasion pp. 1493-1510

Maurizio Bovi and Roy Cerqueti

Linkages between income inequality, international remittances and economic growth in Pakistan pp. 1511-1535

Muhammad Shahbaz, Ijaz Rehman and Nurul Mahdzan

Employment of disabled people in the private sector. An analysis at the level of Italian Provinces according to article 13 of law 68/1999 pp. 1537-1552

Massimiliano Agovino and Agnese Rapposelli

On minimizing the welfare cost of fiscal policy: evidence from South Asia pp. 1553-1572

Ihtsham Padda

Exploring the nexus between tourism, remittances and growth in Kenya pp. 1573-1588

Ronald Kumar

Combining grey relation analysis and entropy model for evaluating the operational performance: an empirical study pp. 1589-1600

Chia Sun

Validating innovating practice and perceptions of course management system solutions using structural equation modeling pp. 1601-1618

Shinyi Lin, Tse-Hua Shih and Shu-Hui Chuang

An inconvenient dataset: bias and inappropriate inference with the multilevel model pp. 1619-1649

Samuel Lucas

Higher education and growth performance of Pakistan: evidence from multivariate framework pp. 1651-1665

Wasim Qazi, Syed Raza and Syed Tehseen Jawaid

Estimating floating voters: a comparison between the ecological inference and the survey methods pp. 1667-1683

Luana Russo

Higher education regimes: an empirical classification of higher education systems and its relationship with student accessibility pp. 1685-1703

Moris Triventi

Examining the relations between open innovation climate and job satisfaction with a PLS path model pp. 1705-1722

Ching-Sung Lee, Yen-Cheng Chen, Pei-Ling Tsui and Tung-Han Yu

Analyzing party competition through the comparative manifesto data: some theoretical and methodological considerations pp. 1723-1737

Mattia Zulianello

Evaluation of sustainability reporting practices in Poland pp. 1739-1752

Patrycja Hąbek

Managing green brand equity: the perspective of perceived risk theory pp. 1753-1768

Ching-Hsun Chang and Yu-Shan Chen

Diffusion and spatial equilibrium of a social norm: voting participation in the United States, 1920–2008 pp. 1769-1783

Stephen Coleman

Toward a simple structure: a comparison of different rotation techniques pp. 1785-1797

Giovanni Franco

The views and suggestions to the librarians’ quality of information pp. 1799-1802

Xinya Mei

Intercoder reliability indices: disuse, misuse, and abuse pp. 1803-1815

Guangchao Feng

Volume 48, issue 2, 2014

Privately paid care for older people in Italy: testing the equivalence between macroregions pp. 577-591

Barbara Da Roit

Using frailty models to account for heterogeneity in multistage manufacturing and service processes pp. 593-604

Shervin Asadzadeh, Abdollah Aghaie and Hamid Shahriari

Using factor analysis to explore principal components for quality management implementation pp. 605-622

Vimlan Moonsamy and Shalini Singh

A network approach toward literature review pp. 623-643

Lidwien Wijngaert, Harry Bouwman and Noshir Contractor

A fuzzy AHP approach to construct international hotel spa atmosphere evaluation model pp. 645-657

Yen-Cheng Chen, Tung-Han Yu, Pei-Ling Tsui and Ching-Sung Lee

The development of FFMD Pyramid: Fuzzy Family_Marriage Deployment as decision support method to improve human resources performance pp. 659-672

P. Rika Fatimah

Using the fuzzy set theory to developing an environmental impact assessment index for a thermal power plant pp. 673-680

Hee-Cheon Ju and Seung-Hoon Yoo

Unemployment hysteresis in Australia: evidence using nonlinear and stationarity tests with breaks pp. 681-695

Aviral Tiwari

The inverse operationalisation of concepts for the secondary analysis of quantitative data: an example from the study of parental collaboration pp. 697-712

Stephen Hinchliffe

The Eurobarometer and the process of European integration pp. 713-727

Sylke Nissen

Testing the higher education-led growth hypothesis in a small island: an empirical investigation from a new version of the Solow growth model pp. 729-744

Salih Katircioglu, Sami Fethi and Hamit Caner

Understanding information propagation on online social tagging systems: a case study on Flickr pp. 745-754

Jason Jung

Meta-analytic methods to test relative efficacy pp. 755-765

Bruce Wampold and Ronald Serlin

An exploration of core competences of newly qualified nurses: a case study pp. 767-780

Chia Sun

The linkages among energy consumption, economic growth, relative price, foreign direct investment, and financial development in Malaysia pp. 781-797

Chor Foon Tang and Bee Tan

Presenting dynamics of social phenomena: should we use absolute, relative or time differences? pp. 799-816

Katja Prevodnik and Vasja Vehovar

Developing a multivariate approach to monitor fuzzy quality profiles pp. 817-836

Shahram Ghobadi, Kazem Noghondarian, Rassoul Noorossana and S. Mirhosseini

Methodological problems in gender and media research pp. 837-844

Saveria Capecchi

Women active citizenship and wellbeing: the Italian case pp. 845-862

Domenica Iezzi and Fiorenza Deriu

An index of education and child health in the Horn of Africa pp. 863-870

José Martín, María Herrero and José Campillo

A proposed method to evaluate the quality of services using Fuzzy sets theory pp. 871-885

Cleriston Silva, Deise Araújo Batista and Denise Medeiros

Energy consumption and economic growth: evidence from non-OPEC oil producing states pp. 887-898

Irina Dolgopolova, Qazi Muhammad Hye and Iyala Stewart

Language and ideology: quantitative thematic analysis of New Year speeches given by Czechoslovak and Czech presidents (1949–2011) pp. 899-910

Radek Čech

Develop a ranking algorithm for the green building project pp. 911-921

Che-Wei Chang

Aggregation level matters: evidence from french electoral data pp. 923-938

Luana Russo and Laurent Beauguitte

Construction, dimension reduction and uncertainty analysis of an index of trust in public institutions pp. 939-953

Marco Marozzi

A Monte Carlo permutation test for co-occurrence data pp. 955-960

Balázs Kovács

Spatial processes and Galois/concept lattices pp. 961-981

John Martin

Do parents, teachers and children use the SDQ in a similar fashion? pp. 983-1000

Mark Stokes, David Mellor, James Yeow and Noor Hapidzal

Disentangling the relation between wealth and contraceptive use in India: a multilevel probit regression approach pp. 1001-1012

Isabel Oliveira and José Dias

Democratization in the host country and institutional risk of cross-border M&A: an empirical study on Chinese listed enterprises pp. 1013-1025

Feiqiong Chen and Yangmin Xu

Investigating the Portrait Values Questionnaire at two transitions in adulthood: Retirement and University pp. 1027-1044

Andrew Burr, Jonathan Santo and Dolores Pushkar

What are the main explanations of occupational diseases and accidents at work in the agricultural sector? A panel analysis for Italian regional data pp. 1045-1073

Massimiliano Agovino

Guidance for deciding upon use of primary mixed methods studies in research synthesis: lessons learned in childhood trauma pp. 1075-1088

H. Boeije, F. Wesel and M. Slagt

Proximity and distance: phases of intersubjective qualitative data analysis in a research team pp. 1089-1106

Marianne Döös and Lena Wilhelmson

A three-stage model for smart phone use antecedents pp. 1107-1115

Lee-Yun Pan, Shih-Chi Chang and Chia-Chi Sun

Inferring international dotcom Web communities by link and content analysis pp. 1117-1133

Chung Chung, George Barnett and Han Park

Cultivation of high-quality librarians pp. 1135-1142

Xinya Mei

To create a happy reading at library pp. 1143-1147

Xinya Mei

Volume 48, issue 1, 2014

Women and culture of poverty (a qualitative study of the culture of poverty among the Iranian caretaker women) pp. 1-14

Ahmad Mohammadpur, Jalil Karimi and Mehdi Alizadeh

The concept of individual semantic maps in clinical psychology: a feasibility study on a new paradigm pp. 15-35

Enzo Grossi, Angelo Compare and Massimo Buscema

Moral judgment and ethical leadership in Chinese management: the role of Confucianism and collectivism pp. 37-47

Kuo-Wei Lin and Kai-Ping Huang

A cinemetric approach to sentimental processing on story-oriented contents pp. 49-62

Seung-Bo Park, Eunsoon You and Jason Jung

Energy consumption, CO 2 emissions, and economic growth: evidence from Indonesia pp. 63-73

Jo-Hee Hwang and Seung-Hoon Yoo

Investigating parental intention of using internet filter software pp. 75-89

Tsung-Hsien Tsai, Chien-Hung Wei and Chung-Yu Tsai

Conditional respect towards the pedestrian: difference between men and women and risk modeling by the Bayesian approach pp. 91-110

Sandrine Gaymard and Teodor Tiplica

Efficiency in government health spending: a super slacks-based model pp. 111-126

Yi-Chung Hsu

Item comparability in cross-national surveys: results from asking probing questions in cross-national web surveys about attitudes towards civil disobedience pp. 127-148

Dorothée Behr, Michael Braun, Lars Kaczmirek and Wolfgang Bandilla

Human capital inequality and income inequality: testing for causality pp. 149-156

Muhammad Chani, Sajjad Jan, Zahid Pervaiz and Amatul Chaudhary

An integrate method for performance of women in science and technology based on entropy measure for objective weighting pp. 157-172

Ying-Chyi Chou, Hsin-Yi Yen and Chia-Chi Sun

The use of imagery in statistical reasoning by university undergraduate students: a preliminary study pp. 173-187

Maria Penna, Mirian Agus, Maribel Peró-Cebollero, Joan Guàrdia-Olmos and Eliano Pessa

The rationality and objectivity of reflection in phenomenological research pp. 189-196

Bella Lien, David Pauleen, Yu-Ming Kuo and Tz-Li Wang

Bridging “quality” and “quantity” in the study of criminal action pp. 197-215

Eugenio De Gregorio

Stock market and macroeconomic volatility comparison: an US approach pp. 217-224

Kaya Tokmakcioglu and Oktay Tas

Integration of the Kano and QFD model in health food development: using black beans as examples pp. 225-242

Chun-Min Kuo, Shin-Hwei Yuo and Carol Lu

The presence of an error term does not preclude causal inference in regression: a comment on Krause (2012) pp. 243-250

Cameron McIntosh

Adjusting for differential misclassification in multilevel models: the relationship between child exposure to smoke and cognitive development pp. 251-258

Maria Ferrão and Harvey Goldstein

A conceptual framework for R&D strategic alliance assessment for Taiwan’s biotechnology industry pp. 259-279

Chia Sun

Integration risk in cross-border M&A based on internal and external resource: empirical evidence from China pp. 281-295

Feiqiong Chen and Yin Wang

Systematic social observation of police decision-making: the process, logistics, and challenges in a Canadian context pp. 297-315

Jennifer Schulenberg

Certifying interviewers: the role of testing interviewers to improve data quality pp. 317-335

Rachael Walsh

Passenger satisfaction: a multi-group analysis pp. 337-345

Laura Antonucci, Corrado Crocetta, Francesco d’Ovidio and Ernesto Toma

The physics of the city: pedestrians dynamics and crowding panic equation in Venezia pp. 347-373

Elisa Omodei, Armando Bazzani, Sandro Rambaldi, Paolo Michieletto and Bruno Giorgini

Foreign capital inflows, economic growth and stock market capitalization in Asian countries: an ARDL bound testing approach pp. 375-385

Syed Raza and Syed Tehseen Jawaid

Beyond the existence proof: ontological conditions, epistemological implications, and in-depth interview research pp. 387-408

Samuel Lucas

Strategies affecting Twitter-based networking pattern of South Korean politicians: social network analysis and exponential random graph model pp. 409-423

Ho Yoon and Han Park

The fetish of archives pp. 425-437

Robert Hogenraad

Italian economic dualism and convergence clubs at regional level pp. 439-456

Juan Brida, Nicolás Garrido and Francesco Mureddu

Estimable functions in age-period-cohort models: a unified approach pp. 457-474

Robert O’Brien

Repeat tourism in Uruguay: modelling truncated distributions of count data pp. 475-491

Juan Brida, Juan Pereyra and Raffaele Scuderi

An assessment of equivalence between Internet and paper-based surveys: evidence from collectivistic cultures pp. 493-506

Jiaming Fang, Chao Wen and Victor Prybutok

Statistical institutes and economic prosperity pp. 507-520

Philip Hans Franses and Rianne Legerstee

Comparison of the h-index for different fields of research using bootstrap methodology pp. 521-545

Chrysovalantis Malesios and S. Psarakis

Factual and modal notions in social research pp. 547-561

Götz Rohwer

Examining the international internet using multiple measures: new methods for measuring the communication base of globalized cyberspace pp. 563-575

George Barnett and Han Park