Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology

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Volume 46, issue 6, 2012

Measuring the quality of work: the case of the Italian social cooperatives pp. 1659-1685

Maurizio Carpita and Silvia Golia

Achievement predictors in a secondary students’ sample pp. 1687-1697

África Borges del Rosal, Carmen Hernández-Jorge and Miguel González Sierra

Benchmarking therapists: furthering the benchmarking method in its application to clinical practice pp. 1699-1708

Takuya Minami, Brown G.s, Joyce McCulloch and Brent Bolstrom

Bertrand’s paradox: is there anything else? pp. 1709-1714

Vesna Jevremovic and Marko Obradovic

Advanced workforce management for effective customer services pp. 1715-1726

Jun Kim and Sung Ha

Alternative quality standards in qualitative research? pp. 1727-1751

C. Poortman and K. Schildkamp

The impact of sports ethics of professional baseball player to the development of sports industry in Taiwan pp. 1753-1767

Chih-Tung Hsiao, Hui-Ling Peng and Hui-Hua Huang

Unit nonresponse errors in income surveys: a case study pp. 1769-1794

Michele Lalla, Davide Ferrari and Patrizio Frederic

A quantitative study on mobile services aimed at children and self-regulation in Spain pp. 1795-1806

María De-Miguel-Molina, Mónica Martínez-Gómez, Blanca De-Miguel-Molina and Gabriela Ribes-Giner

Constructing stratifications for regions in China with sustainable development concerns pp. 1807-1823

Wen-Min Lu and Shih-Fang Lo

The study of contagious paces of financial crises pp. 1825-1846

Jo-Hui Chen and Chih-Sean Chen

A modular fuzzy inference system approach in integrating qualitative and quantitative analysis of store image pp. 1847-1864

Ling-Zhong Lin and Tsuen-Ho Hsu

Does intellectual capital matter? Assessing the profitability and marketability of IC design companies pp. 1865-1881

Mei-Huan Kuo and Chyan Yang

An evaluation of the validity of the Crowne–Marlowe need for approval scale pp. 1883-1896

Timothy Johnson, Michael Fendrich and Mary Mackesy-Amiti

How should Mass attendance be measured? An Italian case study pp. 1897-1916

Maurizio Rossi and Ettore Scappini

The impact of the economic cycle on fatal injuries. The case of UK 1971–2007 pp. 1917-1929

Anna-Maria Mouza and Antonis Targoutzidis

How to investigate the information processing strategies of students in competence-based pre-vocational secondary education: selection of the right instrument pp. 1931-1946

Maaike Koopman, Peter Teune and Douwe Beijaard

Moments structure of ℓ 1 -stochastic volatility models pp. 1947-1952

David Neto and Sylvain Sardy

Cointegration and distance between differenced processes pp. 1953-1957

Umberto Triacca

Volume 46, issue 5, 2012

A qualitative approach to the challenges for women in management: are they really starting in the 21st century? pp. 1337-1357

Rosario Vázquez-Carrasco, Ma. López-Pérez and Edgar Centeno

Religion and politics: understanding the effects of conservative origins on contemporary patterns of sub-national relative human development pp. 1359-1376

Jeremy Porter

Ways to promote valuable innovation: intellectual capital assessment for higher education system pp. 1377-1391

Hung-Yi Wu, Jui-Kuei Chen and I-Shuo Chen

Reporting missing data: a study of selected articles published from 2003–2007 pp. 1393-1406

Michel Rousseau, Marielle Simon, Richard Bertrand and Krystal Hachey

Returns to education and wages in Turkey: robust and resistant regression pp. 1407-1416

Selahattin Güriş and Ebru Çağlayan

The distinction between qualitative and quantitative research methods is problematic pp. 1417-1429

Carl Allwood

Assessing social support networks in cross-national comparative surveys: Measurement issues pp. 1431-1449

Valentina Hlebec, Maja Mrzel and Tina Kogovšek

Application of fuzzy mathematical programming to imprecise project management decisions pp. 1451-1470

Tien-Fu Liang, Tien-Shou Huang and Ming-Feng Yang

A comparison of Likert-type rating and visually-aided rating in a simple moral judgment experiment pp. 1471-1477

Kristiina Janhunen

The factors impact of knowledge sharing intentions: the theory of reasoned action perspective pp. 1479-1491

Ming-Tien Tsai, Kun-Shiang Chen and Jui-Lin Chien

Mind mapping research methods pp. 1493-1504

Michael Crowe and Lorraine Sheppard

Frailty models with applications to the study of infant deaths on birth timing in Ghana and Kenya pp. 1505-1521

Stephen Gyimah, Alex Ezeh and J. Fotso

Group differences in reciprocity, multiplexity and exchange: measures and application pp. 1523-1545

Filip Agneessens and John Skvoretz

Testing structural equation models: the impact of error variances in the data generating process pp. 1547-1570

Randi Hammervold and Ulf Olsson

Structural equation modeling with ordinal variables: a large sample case study pp. 1571-1581

Gülhayat Şimşek and Fatma Noyan

Electricity consumption and economic growth empirical evidence from Pakistan pp. 1583-1599

Muhammad Shahbaz and Mete Feridun

Asking sensitive questions: the impact of forgiving wording and question context on social desirability bias pp. 1601-1616

Anatol-Fiete Näher and Ivar Krumpal

Comparing levels of anti-Muslim attitudes across Western countries pp. 1617-1624

Michael Savelkoul, Peer Scheepers, William Veld and Louk Hagendoorn

Creative-oriented personality, creativity improvement, and innovation level enhancement pp. 1625-1642

Jui-Kuei Chen and I.-Shuo Chen

Heterogeneous networks and resource acquisition of SMEs in emerging economies pp. 1643-1657

Karen Wang, Yue Wang, Kai-Ping Huang and Jingsong Deng

Volume 46, issue 4, 2012

Children between the age of 5 and 11: what “don’t know” answers tell us pp. 993-1011

Susanne Vogl

Online image content analysis of political figures: an exploratory study pp. 1013-1024

Bulent Ozel and Han Park

A simpler quality of e-life indicator: does the Internet have a positive impact on the quality of life in Taiwan pp. 1025-1045

Te-Hsin Liang, Jia-ling Peng and Ching-Yun Yu

Computing regression quantiles to analysis the relationship between market behavior and political risk pp. 1047-1055

Yi-Hsien Wang, Jui-Cheng Hung, Yen-Hsien Lee and Chung-Chu Chuang

Critical creativity criteria for students in higher education: taking the interrelationship effect among dimensions into account pp. 1057-1075

Jui-Kuei Chen and I.-Shuo Chen

An application of co-word analysis and bibliometric maps for detecting the most highlighting themes in the consumer behaviour research from a longitudinal perspective pp. 1077-1095

Francisco Muñoz-Leiva, María Viedma-del-Jesús, Juan Sánchez-Fernández and Antonio López-Herrera

A process control method based on five-parameter generalized lambda distribution pp. 1097-1111

Majid Ahmadabadi, Yaghub Farjami and Mohammad Bameni Moghadam

Understanding undergraduate students’ experience: a content analysis using NSSE open-ended comments as an example pp. 1113-1123

Tony Chambers and Ching-Hsiao Chiang

The focus groups in social research: advantages and disadvantages pp. 1125-1136

Ivana Acocella

Long term effect of trade openness on economic growth in case of Pakistan pp. 1137-1149

Qazi Muhammad Hye

Researching my people, researching the “other”: field experiences of two researchers along shifting positionalities pp. 1151-1166

Naomi Weiner-Levy and Sarab Abu Rabia Queder

Measure of privacy in randomized response model pp. 1167-1180

Hong Zhimin and Yan Zaizai

Internet service cognition and use, and their promotion in the lives of adolescents and youngsters in Taiwan pp. 1181-1195

Te-Hsin Liang

An approximation method to derive confidence intervals for quantiles with some applications pp. 1197-1208

M. Rueda, A. Arcos, I. Sánchez-Borrego and J. Muñoz

The components of landline telephone survey coverage bias. The relative importance of no-phone and mobile-only populations pp. 1209-1225

Britta Busse and Marek Fuchs

Price discovery in stock index: an ARDL-ECM approach in Taiwan case pp. 1227-1238

Shi-jie Jiang, Matthew Chang and I-chan Chiang

The concept study of Servqual method’s gap pp. 1239-1247

Radosław Wolniak and Bozena Skotnicka-Zasadzien

Analysis of behaviour in sports through polar coordinate analysis with MATLAB ® pp. 1249-1260

Abigail Perea, Julen Castellano, Lorea Alday and Antonio Hernández-Mendo

Minimum wage is efficient wage in Turkish labor market: TAR–cointegration analysis pp. 1261-1270

Melike Bildirici and Elçin Aykaç Alp

Tertiary student satisfaction with socialization: A statistical assessment pp. 1271-1278

Marco Marozzi

The establishment of a quality management system for the higher education industry pp. 1279-1296

Shun-Hsing Chen

Determining of threat perceptions affecting direction of the US defense expenditures by using ordinal regression models pp. 1297-1309

Nurcan Metin

Evaluation of the convergence between “self-reporters” and “proxies” in a disability questionnaire by means of behaviour coding method pp. 1311-1322

Isabel Benítez Baena, Jose Padilla García and Yfke Ongena

On the advantages of economically designed variable sample sizes and sampling intervals T 2 control chart: double warning lines scheme pp. 1323-1336

Alireza Faraz, R. Kazemzadeh, M. Moghadam and Ahmad Parsian

Volume 46, issue 3, 2012

Selecting and fitting graphical chain models to longitudinal data pp. 715-738

Riccardo Borgoni, Ann Berrington and Peter Smith

Creativity strategy selection for the higher education system pp. 739-750

I-Shuo Chen and Jui-Kuei Chen

Quality as an autonomous body of knowledge. An in-depth survey on Italian higher education pp. 751-776

Eva Lo Franco and Salvatore La Rosa

Value-creating functions, satisfaction and loyalty in business markets: a categorical variable approach using a robust methodology under structural equation modeling pp. 777-794

José Sánchez, Maria Santos Vijande and Juan Gutiérrez

Combining research techniques to improve quality service in hospitality pp. 795-812

Mar Vila, Xari Rovira, Gerard Costa and Ricard Santoma

Health status and disability comparisons between CATI calendar and conventional questionnaire instruments pp. 813-828

Robert Belli, Sangeeta Agrawal and Ipek Bilgen

Posting, quoting, and replying: a comparison of methodological approaches to measure communication ties in web forums pp. 829-854

Andraž Petrovčič, Vasja Vehovar and Aleš Žiberna

Market and learning orientation in times of turbulence: relevance questioned? An analysis using a multi-case study pp. 855-871

Jesús Cambra-Fierro, Susan Hart, Yolanda Polo-Redondo and Ana Fuster-Mur

IPO mechanism selection by using Classification and Regression Trees pp. 873-888

Guray Kucukkocaoglu and Ozge Sezgin Alp

Modeling and initiating knowledge management program using FQFD: a case study involving a healthcare institute pp. 889-915

Ching-Wen Chen

Why don’t they answer? Unit non-response in the IAB establishment panel pp. 917-934

Florian Janik and Susanne Kohaut

Why and how to use vector autoregressive models for quality control: the guideline and procedures pp. 935-948

Xia Pan and Jeffrey Jarrett

Looking for voting paradoxes in Indian elections pp. 949-958

Santanu Gupta

Examining Turkey and member states of European Union in terms of health perspectives of millennium development goals pp. 959-978

Fatma Lorcu, Bilge Acar Bolat and Ahmet Atakisi

Leisure activity and coping with stress: adolescents as case study pp. 979-991

Cheng-Jong Lee, Chao-Sen Wu and Chiung-Tzu Lin

Volume 46, issue 2, 2012

Nonparametric methods in sample surveys. Application to the estimation of cancer prevalence pp. 405-414

I. Sánchez-Borrego, M. Rueda and J. Muñoz

Using mixed methods for the analysis of individuals: a review of necessary and sufficient conditions and an application to welfare state attitudes pp. 415-450

Achim Goerres and Katrin Prinzen

Education systems and the formation of societal consensus on justice pp. 451-470

Rüya Koçer and Herman Werfhorst

A causal model for the development of long-term facilities: a case in Taiwan pp. 471-481

Chih-Tung Hsiao and Hui-Hua Huang

A qualitative investigation of the intersection of leisure and identity among high school students: application of grounded theory pp. 483-499

Mohammad Iman and Dariush Boostani

Computer-assisted analysis of public discourse: a case study of the precautionary principle in the US and UK press pp. 501-522

Andrei Kirilenko, Svetlana Stepchenkova, Rebecca Romsdahl and Kristine Mattis

Characteristics of fuzzy synthetic decision methods for measuring student achievement pp. 523-543

Ching-Sen Hsieh, Yu-Wen Chen, Chih-Hung Wu and Tao Huang

Estimating latent class model parameters for filter questions with skip patterns pp. 545-552

Ting Lin

Bank failure prediction models: for the developing and developed countries pp. 553-558

Derek-Teshun Huang, Betty Chang and Zhien-Chia Liu

Mulaik on atomism, contraposition and causation pp. 559-571

Keith Markus

Quality & Quantity journal: a bibliometric snapshot pp. 573-580

Fiorenzo Franceschini and Domenico Maisano

Young people’s ICT role at home—a descriptive study of young Finnish people’s ICT views in the home context pp. 581-597

Hannu Lahtinen

International quality awards and excellence quality models around the world. A multidimensional analysis pp. 599-626

María Alonso-Almeida and Víctor Fuentes-Frías

On the stability of value added indicators pp. 627-637

Maria Ferrão

Empirical research on M&A performance of private enterprises in China pp. 639-651

Xiaopeng Zou, Qiuping Wei and Bo Zhang

Estimation of food demand in Turkey: method of an almost ideal demand system pp. 653-663

Mehmet Şahinli and Halil Fidan

An improved genetic algorithm for robust design in multivariate systems pp. 665-678

Enrique Canessa, Christian Droop and Hector Allende

How do social scientists use link data from search engines to understand Internet-based political and electoral communication? pp. 679-693

Han Park

Does weather impact the stock market? Empirical evidence in Taiwan pp. 695-703

Yi-Hsien Wang, Chin-Tsai Lin and Jung Lin

A Study on the application of 6-Sigma on the enhancement of service quality of fitness club pp. 705-713

Kuei-Mei Cheng, Chin-Hsien Hsu and Chin-Huang Huang

Volume 46, issue 1, 2012

Selection model based on ANP and GRA for independent media agencies pp. 1-17

Pi-Fang Hsu

Zero-inflated count regression models with applications to some examples pp. 19-38

Bayo Lawal

On the advantages of economically designed the Hotelling’s T2 control chart with variable sample sizes and sampling intervals pp. 39-53

Alireza Faraz, R. Kazemzadeh, Ahmad Parsian and M. Moghadam

Confidence intervals for two-dimensional data with circular tolerances in a gauge R&R study pp. 55-69

Fu-Kwun Wang and H. Chern

The hierarchical terminology technique: a method to address terminology inconsistency pp. 71-87

Sylvia Ward

Researching students’ strategies, episodes, and metacognitions in mathematical problem solving pp. 89-102

Ayhan Erbas and Serkan Okur

Performance measurement considering the interdependence of evaluators and criteria pp. 103-115

Sheu Chen, Pei Wang and Hong Lee

The role of usability on stimulating SME’s on line buying intention: an experiment based on a ficticius web site design pp. 117-136

Natalia Vila and Inés Kuster

Integrated manufacturing/distribution planning decisions with multiple imprecise goals in an uncertain environment pp. 137-153

Tien-Fu Liang

Constructing measures for school process variables: the potential of multilevel confirmatory factor analysis pp. 155-188

Ellen D’Haenens, Jan Van Damme and Patrick Onghena

C. Van Tuyckom, & K. Jöreskog, “Going for gold! Welfare characteristics and Olympic success: an application of the structural equation approach.” Quality & Quantity (in press) pp. 189-205

Charlotte Van Tuyckom and Karl Jöreskog

Relationships among project manager’s leadership style, team interaction and project performance in the Taiwanese server industry pp. 207-219

Li-Ren Yang, Kun-Shan Wu, Fang-Kuo Wang and Pei-Chu Chin

The study of the effects of identity-related judgment, affective identification and continuance commitment on WOM behavior pp. 221-236

Kuo-Kuang Chu and Chi-Hua Li

Effect of factors with time-dependent covariates on the survival status of the elderly in Taiwan pp. 237-249

Shih-Chia Liu and Cheng-Hsiang Lin

Examining academic Internet use using a combined method pp. 251-266

Han Park

Humorous coping scales and their fit to a stress and coping framework pp. 267-279

Sibe Doosje, J. Landsheer, Martijn Goede and Lorenz Doornen

Further explanations for context effects: a perspective of ideal and reference points pp. 281-290

Jih-Jeng Huang

Geometry or poetry? Issues of methods and techniques in regional research pp. 291-301

Anna Lydaki

Face to face and telephone surveys in terms of sampling representativeness: a multidimensional analysis pp. 303-313

Elena Abascal Fernández, Vidal Díaz de Rada Igúzquiza, Ignacio García Lautre and M. Landaluce Calvo

Problem identification method in certified quality management systems pp. 315-321

Mariusz Ligarski

Ranking by competence using a fuzzy approach pp. 323-339

Abdul Suleman and Fatima Suleman

Pricing perpetual options with stochastic discount interest rates pp. 341-349

Xia Zhao and Bo Zhang

Productivity and efficiency scores of dairy farms: the case of Turkey pp. 351-358

Goksel Armagan and Suleyman Nizam

Using AHP to evaluate the criteria of auto spare parts industry pp. 359-364

Hsin-Hung Wu and Ya-Ning Tsai

Humor roles of females in a product color matrix: a qualitative conceptual development pp. 365-370

Chyong-Ling Lin, Jin-Tsann Yeh and Wen-Chi Lo

An efficient algorithm for Lindner’s test (configural frequency analysis) pp. 371-378

Joachim Harloff

Content analysis research method with Nvivo-6 software in a PhD thesis: an approach to the long-term psychological effects on Chilean ex-prisoners survivors of experiences of torture and imprisonment pp. 379-390

Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda, Félix López-Sánchez and María Sánchez-Gómez

Urban amenities as determinants of selecting a logo type in Korea: the multinomial logit approach with the bootstrap sample pp. 391-404

Eugene Choi