Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology

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Volume 45, issue 6, 2011

Introduction pp. 1145-1150

Peter Schmidt, Johannes Herrmann and Udo Kelle

National attachments, economic competition, and social exclusion of non-ethnic migrants in Israel: a mixed-methods approach pp. 1151-1174

Rebeca Raijman and Oshrat Hochman

Cognitive interviewing and factor-analytic techniques: a mixed method approach to validity of survey items measuring national identity pp. 1175-1199

Rossalina Latcheva

Antisemitism research using methodological triangulation: a case study in Germany pp. 1201-1215

Samuel Salzborn, Burkhard Brosig and Peter Schmidt

Focus groups as a tool in the construction of questionnaires: the case of discriminatory attitudes pp. 1217-1231

Anastasia Gorodzeisky

Mixing process-generated data in market sociology pp. 1233-1251

Nina Baur

Assessing legitimation in mixed research: a new framework pp. 1253-1271

Anthony Onwuegbuzie, R. Johnson and Kathleen Collins

A censored system of demand analysis to unpacked and prepackaged milk consumption in Turkey pp. 1273-1290

Cihat Günden, Abdulbaki Bilgic, Bülent Miran and Bahri Karli

Combining PSO cluster and nonlinear mapping algorithm to perform clustering performance analysis: take the enterprise financial alarming as example pp. 1291-1302

Wen-Tsao Pan

The need for documenting validation transactions: a qualitative component of the testing validation process pp. 1303-1311

Charles Secolsky, Ellen Wentland and Brian Denison

The effects of international off-site surveillance on bank rating changes pp. 1313-1329

Jo-Hui Chen and Chih-Sean Chen

The framing of risks and the communication of subjective probabilities for victimizations pp. 1331-1348

Ivar Krumpal, Heiko Rauhut, Dorothea Böhr and Elias Naumann

An entry/exit decision for transnational production system: applying optimal financing behavior pp. 1349-1359

Tyrone Lin and Yu-hsin Ou

Long-term relationship between political behavior and stock market return: new evidence from quantile regression pp. 1361-1367

Yi-Hsien Wang, Jui-Cheng Hung, Hsiu-Hsueh Kao and Kuang-Hsun Shih

Accuracy of self-reports on donations to charitable organizations pp. 1369-1383

René Bekkers and Pamala Wiepking

Use of dynamic programming to improve the detection of means-end chains from laddering data pp. 1385-1396

Chin-Feng Lin

Culturally responsive relational reflexive ethics in research: the three rs pp. 1397-1414

Maria Lahman, Monica Geist, Katrina Rodriguez, Pamela Graglia and Kathryn DeRoche

A multivariate method for analyzing and improving the use of student evaluation of teaching questionnaires: a case study pp. 1415-1427

Mónica Martínez-Gómez, Jose Sierra, José Jabaloyes and Manuel Zarzo

The age–period–cohort conundrum as two fundamental problems pp. 1429-1444

Robert O’Brien

Extracting cover sets from free fuzzy sorting data pp. 1445-1457

Joachim Harloff

The use of mixed methods research in the field of behavioural sciences pp. 1459-1472

Olatz Lopez-Fernandez and Jose Molina-Azorin

Point pattern analysis of regional city distributions pp. 1473-1481

Reza Pourtaheri and Mohammad Vahidi-Asl

Equally important criteria and demanding aggregation pp. 1483-1503

Theo Dijkstra

Linear indices in nonlinear structural equation models: best fitting proper indices and other composites pp. 1505-1518

Theo Dijkstra and Jörg Henseler

Testing for spatial market integration and law of one price in Turkish wheat markets pp. 1519-1530

Kadir Eryigit and Suleyman Karaman

Factors influencing the return on household education investment: empirical evidence from China pp. 1531-1538

Xiaopeng Zou and Chen Luo

Application of fuzzy regression on air cargo volume forecast pp. 1539-1550

Tsung-Yu Chou, Gin-Shuh Liang and Tzeu-Chen Han

Volume 45, issue 5, 2011

Editorial: Applied and methodological issues in the analysis of network data pp. 985-987

Maria D’Esposito and Susanna Zaccarin

On the dynamics of national scientific systems pp. 989-1015

Luka Kronegger, Anuška Ferligoj and Patrick Doreian

Dynamic building blocks for science: comment on Kronegger, Ferligoj, and Doreian pp. 1017-1022

Ryan Light and James Moody

Comment on Kronegger, Ferligoj and Doreian pp. 1023-1024

Martin Everett

On the dynamics of national scientific systems: a reply pp. 1025-1029

Patrick Doreian, Anuška Ferligoj and Luka Kronegger

Networks and geography in the economics of knowledge flows pp. 1031-1051

Mario Maggioni and Teodora Uberti

Networks and geography in the economics of knowledge flows. A comment pp. 1053-1057

Nadine Massard

Networks and geography in the economics of knowledge flows: a commentary pp. 1059-1063

Anne L.J. Wal

Networks and geography in the economics of knowledge flows pp. 1065-1066

Mario Maggioni and Teodora Uberti

Tackling connections, structure, and meaning in networks: quantitative and qualitative methods in sociological network research pp. 1067-1089

Jan Fuhse and Sophie Mützel

Issues in the analysis of co-authorship networks pp. 1091-1107

Domenico De Stefano, Giuseppe Giordano and Maria Vitale

The network structure of knowledge sharing among physicians pp. 1109-1126

Paola Zappa

Among leaders and territories: the political networks of the district councillors in Naples pp. 1127-1143

Luciano Brancaccio

Volume 45, issue 4, 2011

Dancing with structure: research in Ecological Pedagogy pp. 739-741

René Butter

The challenge of recruiting control groups. An experiment of different recruitment models in the control group of a clinical psychological postal survey pp. 743-750

Maja O’Connor

Combining the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process and the fuzzy Delphi method for developing critical competences of electronic commerce professional managers pp. 751-768

Chih-Hung Wu and Wen-Chang Fang

A candidates selection approach for district alliance of university incubators pp. 769-781

Chia-Nan Wang and Kun-Zhong Li

Revealing personal professional theories pp. 783-800

Pauline Huijts, Elly Bruijn and Harmen Schaap

Results of a cross-national structured cognitive interviewing protocol to test measures of disability pp. 801-815

Kristen Miller, Daniel Mont, Aaron Maitland, Barbara Altman and Jennifer Madans

Face-to-face versus telephone surveys on political attitudes: a comparative analysis pp. 817-827

Vidal Díaz de Rada

The effects of applying a hybrid method with a macro–micro approach for market research in the telecommunication industry pp. 829-843

Chen-Ju Lin, Ci-Rong Li and Chih-Peng Chu

Enhance the evaluation quality of project performance based on fuzzy aggregation weight effect pp. 845-857

Ching-Cheng Shen and Kun-Lin Hsieh

Mixing quantitative and qualitative content analysis: triangulation at work pp. 859-873

Anton Oleinik

Imputation of non-ignorable nonresponses for income: analysis of a panel study on Taiwan pp. 875-884

Ruoh-Rong Yu and Lung-An Li

Integrating qualitative and quantitative methods to enhance means-end approach pp. 885-899

Wann-Yih Wu and Chen-Su Fu

Identification-commitment inventory (ICI model): confirmatory factor analysis and construct validity pp. 901-909

Marina Romeo, Montserrat Yepes, Rita Berger, Joan Guàrdia and Cristina Castro

Forecasting financial crises for an enterprise by using the Grey Markov forecasting model pp. 911-922

Li-Hui Chen and Tsuei-Yang Guo

Quantitizing text: using theme frequency and theme intensity to describe factors influencing time-to-doctorate pp. 923-934

Hesborn Wao, Robert Dedrick and John Ferron

Organizational climate for innovation and creative teaching in urban and rural schools pp. 935-951

Cheng-Ping Chang, Hao-Wan Chuang and Lynne Bennington

Excel spreadsheet as a tool for social narrative analysis pp. 953-967

José Amozurrutia and Chaime Marcuello-Servós

A MCGP decision aid for homebuyers to make the best choice pp. 969-983

Ching-Ter Chang, Cheng-Yuan Ku, Hui-Ping Ho and Chechen Liao

Volume 45, issue 3, 2011

Estimation of population variance in successive sampling pp. 477-494

Housila Singh, Ritesh Tailor, Sarjinder Singh and Jong-Min Kim

The disaster response performance of hospitals in Taiwan: evaluation and classification pp. 495-511

Fuh-Hwa Liu, Ying-Hock Teng and Ching-Hsiang Lai

Developing an interval forecasting method to predict undulated demand pp. 513-524

Ya-Ling Huang and Chin-Tsai Lin

The classical myth of Ulysses versus Palamedes: an early metaphor for the qualitative/quantitative debate? pp. 525-538

Antonio Fernández-Cano and Inés Fernández-Guerrero

Making logits behave pp. 539-544

Hermann Vetter

Applying information-based methods in importance–performance analysis when the information of importance is unavailable pp. 545-557

Jiunn-I Shieh and Hsin-Hung Wu

Policy consequences of direct legislation theory, empirical models and evidence pp. 559-578

Simon Hug

On the properties of the hotelling’s T 2 control chart with variable sampling intervals pp. 579-586

Alireza Faraz, Kamyar Chalaki and M. Moghadam

Design of optimal step–stress accelerated life tests under progressive type I censoring with random removals pp. 587-597

Kuan-Fu Shen, Yu-Jan Shen and Lii-Yuh Leu

A binary tree algorithm on change points detection pp. 599-608

Tsai-Hung Fan, Hui-Jane Hsieh and Hsin-Hsian Lee

Features of the Z-scoring method in graphical two-dimensional web surveys: the case of ZEF pp. 609-621

Arto Selkälä, Suvi Ronkainen and Esko Alasaarela

The conceptualisation and measurement of occupational hierarchies: a review, a proposal and some illustrative analyses pp. 623-639

Erzsebet Bukodi, Shirley Dex and John Goldthorpe

Spatial models of secession-proofness and equilibrium size pp. 641-652

Hudson Meadwell

Bayesian data augmentation methods for the synthesis of qualitative and quantitative research findings pp. 653-669

Jamie Crandell, Corrine Voils, YunKyung Chang and Margarete Sandelowski

Financial distress prediction based on SVM and MDA methods: the case of Chinese listed companies pp. 671-686

Chi Xie, Changqing Luo and Xiang Yu

Estimation of poverty measures with auxiliary information in sample surveys pp. 687-700

María Mar Rueda and Juan Muñoz

Revisiting faultline conceptualization: measuring faultline strength and distance pp. 701-714

Elaine Zanutto, Katerina Bezrukova and Karen Jehn

Item-fit evaluation in biased tests: a study under Rasch model pp. 715-734

M. Hidalgo and José López-Pina

Exact distribution of the product and the quotient of belief functions pp. 735-738

Saralees Nadarajah

Volume 45, issue 2, 2011

Explaining differences in labour market transitions between panel and life-course data in West-Germany pp. 241-261

Anna Manzoni, Ruud Luijkx and Ruud Muffels

Causality in qualitative and quantitative research pp. 263-291

Jacques Tacq

Quality analysis of a categorical response with different important considerations pp. 293-303

Kun-Lin Hsieh

Determinants of house prices in Istanbul: a quantile regression approach pp. 305-317

Çağlayan Ebru and Arikan Eban

Monte Carlo theoretical trials of methods for assessing statistical significance for differences between adjusted odds ratios pp. 319-328

Daniel Thompson and Mary Zeni

A study on the modified components of Asian Currency Unit: an application of the Artificial Neural Network pp. 329-347

Jo-Hui Chen and Yen-Po Fang

Using integrated quality assessment for hotel service quality pp. 349-364

Ching-Chow Yang, Yung-Tsan Jou and Lai-Yu Cheng

Strong measures of group coherence and the probability that a pairwise majority rule winner exists pp. 365-374

William Gehrlein

Testing for measurement equivalence of human values across online and paper-and-pencil surveys pp. 375-390

Eldad Davidov and Felix Depner

Preservice mathematics teachers’ concept images of polynomials pp. 391-402

Yüksel Dede and Danyal Soybaş

The raise method. An alternative procedure to estimate the parameters in presence of collinearity pp. 403-423

Catalina Garcia Garcia, Jose Pérez and José Liria

The Deegan–Packel index for simple games with a priori unions pp. 425-439

J. Alonso-Meijide, B. Casas-Méndez, M. Fiestras-Janeiro and M. Holler

Inequality of opportunity in secondary school enrolment in Italy, Germany and the Netherlands pp. 441-464

Dalit Contini and Andrea Scagni

Pricing a contract of linking home reversion plan and long-term care insurance via the principle of equivalent utility pp. 465-475

Yugu Xiao

Volume 45, issue 1, 2011

A decomposition of trends in U.S. consumer expenditures on communications and travel: 1984–2002 pp. 1-19

Patricia Mokhtarian, Taihyeong Lee and Sangho Choo

The use of quasi-experiments in the social sciences: a content analysis pp. 21-42

Marie-Claire Aussems, Anne Boomsma and Tom Snijders

The method of constant stimuli with three rating categories and the use of Rasch models pp. 43-58

Roberto Burro, Riccardo Sartori and Giulio Vidotto

Diversification strategy, CEO management style and firm performance: an application of Heckman’s two-stage method pp. 59-73

Almudena Martínez-Campillo and Roberto Fernández-Gago

A performance matrix for strategies to improve satisfaction among faculty members in higher education pp. 75-89

Shun-Hsing Chen

Intervention analysis of SARS on Japanese tourism demand for Taiwan pp. 91-102

Jennifer Min, Christine Lim and Hsien-Hung Kung

Computer assisted text analysis in the social sciences pp. 103-128

Alan Brier and Bruno Hopp

Structural stability regardless of membership turnover? The added value of blockmodelling in the analysis of network evolution pp. 129-144

Emmanuel Lazega, Saraï Sapulete and Lise Mounier

Methodological criteria for the internal validity and utility of practice oriented research pp. 145-156

Inge Bleijenbergh, Hubert Korzilius and Piet Verschuren

Economic patterns of sustainable development: an analysis of absolute ecological footprint through self-organizing map pp. 157-171

V. Carlei, E. Colantonio, D. Furia and N. Mattoscio

Growth and social capital: an evolutionary model pp. 173-186

Luca Correani, Fabio Di Dio and Giuseppe Garofalo

Uncertainty and its perception: experimental study of the numeric expression of uncertainty in two decisional contexts pp. 187-198

Riccardo Sartori and Andrea Ceschi

Model building and estimation strategies for implementing the Balanced Scorecard in Health sector pp. 199-212

Pietro Lovaglio

Intergroup contact and reduction of explicit and implicit prejudice toward immigrants: a study with Italian businessmen owning small and medium enterprises pp. 213-222

Loris Vezzali and Dino Giovannini

Foreign direct investment, trade openness and economic growth in pakistan and turkey: an investigation using bounds test pp. 223-231

Mushtaq Klasra

When destructive deviance in the workplace becomes a liability: a decisional behavioral model pp. 233-239

Tamir Levy and Aharon Tziner