Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology

1967 - 2025

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Volume 43, issue 6, 2009

Are case studies more than sophisticated storytelling?: Methodological problems of qualitative empirical research mainly based on semi-structured interviews pp. 875-894

Thomas Diefenbach

Hedonic price estimation for the Turkish bread wheat characteristics pp. 895-902

Suleyman Karaman, Bahattin Cetin, Ayse Oguzlar and Koksal Yagdi

Hotelling’s T 2 control chart with two adaptive sample sizes pp. 903-912

Alireza Faraz and M. Moghadam

A drunk and her dog: a spurious relation? Cointegration tests as instruments to detect spurious correlations between integrated time series pp. 913-940

Esther Stroe-Kunold and Joachim Werner

Developed stock market reaction to political change: a panel data analysis pp. 941-949

Chung-Chu Chuang and Yi-Hsien Wang

Adjusting for measurement error in the value added model: evidence from Portugal pp. 951-963

Maria Ferrão and Harvey Goldstein

Optimal process parameters under LINEX loss function with general input quality characteristic pp. 965-975

Chad Bhatti and Jennifer Wightman

A qualitative integration of self-determination theory and expectation-confirmation theory using physical education as an example pp. 977-981

Kurtis Chang, Pi-Shan Hsu and Chieh-Peng Lin

Model choice and value-at-risk estimation pp. 983-991

Zisheng Ouyang

The Pareto optimality distribution pp. 993-998

Saralees Nadarajah

Using OWA aggregation technique in QFD: a case study in education in a textile engineering department pp. 999-1009

Ayşe Okur, Efendi Nasibov, Musa Kiliç and Murat Yavuz

Finding behavior patterns and evaluating orderliness of dynamical systems by spanning tree invariants pp. 1011-1023

Jiunn-I Shieh, Hsin-Hung Wu and Wei-Zu Yang

The impact of purchasing power parity on auto foreign trade pp. 1025-1037

Nurcan Metin and Sudi Apak

Volume 43, issue 5, 2009

Combining quality and quantity. A psychometric evaluation of the self-anchoring scale pp. 703-716

Joeri Hofmans, Peter Theuns and Frederik Acker

Augmenting the use of the Rasch model under time constraints pp. 717-729

Dougal Hutchison and Tilaye Yeshanew

Proposing online game loyalty and its antecedents considering gender as a moderator: a qualitative study pp. 731-741

Sheng-Wuu Joe and Chou-Kang Chiu

Intention and behavior: a Bayesian meta-analysis with focus on the Ajzen–Fishbein Model in the field of environmental behavior pp. 743-755

Gero Schwenk and Guido Möser

Agreement and consensus in a Q-mode research design: an empirical comparison of measures, and an application pp. 757-771

Lieuwe Dijkstra and Frans Eijnatten

The applicability of the Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia for patients with sub-acute neck pain: a qualitative study pp. 773-780

Jan Pool, Sharon Hiralal, Raymond Ostelo, Kees Veer, Johan Vlaeyen, Lex Bouter and Henrica Vet

A social procedurial approach to the Pareto optimization problematique pp. 781-803

Tom Burns and Ewa Roszkowska

A social procedural approach to the Pareto optimization problematique: Part II. Institutionalized procedures and their limitations pp. 805-832

Tom Burns and Ewa Roszkowska

Using neural network to forecast stock index option price: a new hybrid GARCH approach pp. 833-843

Yi-Hsien Wang

Selecting the portfolio investment strategy under political structure change in United States pp. 845-854

Yi-Hsien Wang and Chung-Chu Chuang

Bathtub-shaped failure rate functions pp. 855-863

Saralees Nadarajah

Asymmetric control limits for small samples pp. 865-874

Berna Yazici and Betül Kan

Volume 43, issue 4, 2009

Applying cooperative game theory to power relations pp. 519-533

Harald Wiese

Qualitative methodology and its pitfalls in educational research pp. 535-551

Mansoor Niaz

Applying fuzzy quality function deployment (QFD) to identify solutions of service delivery system for port of Kaohsiung pp. 553-570

Ji-Feng Ding

Applying lot-by-lot double sampling plan to reform Taiwan National Health Insurance auditing system pp. 571-584

Hwai-Hui Fu, Dennis Lin, Hsien-Tang Tsai and Duan Wei

Towards a flexible online mixed method design with a feedback loop pp. 585-597

Bojana Lobe and Vasja Vehovar

Testing measurement invariance using multigroup CFA: differences between educational groups in human values measurement pp. 599-616

Holger Steinmetz, Peter Schmidt, Andrea Tina-Booh, Siegrid Wieczorek and Shalom Schwartz

Comparing the main effects and moderating effects of education among three models in IT service: a quantitative approach pp. 617-633

Chieh-Peng Lin and Cherng Ding

Applying a hidden Markov chain model in quality function deployment to analyze dynamic customer requirements pp. 635-644

Jiunn-I Shieh and Hsin-Hung Wu

A quality-oriented framework with QoS management using Bluetooth as a case pp. 645-652

Hwa-Chun Ma and Yen-Wen Chen

The modified Huang’s cost model for process optimization pp. 653-659

Chung-Ho Chen

Yield measure for the process with multiple streams pp. 661-668

Dja-Shin Wang, Tong-Yuan Koo and Chao-Yu Chou

Understanding relationship quality and online purchase intention in e-tourism: A qualitative application pp. 669-675

Chou-Kang Chiu

Apply 6-sigma methodology in measuring the competition quality of satisfaction performance—an example of ISP Industry pp. 677-694

C. Tao, S. Chen and L. Chang

Using QFD method for the ecological designing of products and services pp. 695-701

Eng Wolniak and A. Sȩdek

Volume 43, issue 3, 2009

Applications of calendar instruments in social surveys: a review pp. 333-349

Tina Glasner and Wander Vaart

Integrated environmental assessment of the location selection with fuzzy analytical network process pp. 351-380

Cheng-Ru Wu, Chin-Tsai Lin and Huang-Chu Chen

Fuzzy item response model: a new approach to generate membership function to score psychological measurement pp. 381-390

Sen-Chi Yu and Berlin Wu

Applying importance-performance analysis to compare the changes of a convenient store pp. 391-400

Jiunn-I Shieh and Hsin-Hung Wu

Quality_Marriage Deployment in determining priority needs for initiating marriage loyalty pp. 401-416

P. Fatimah, Jemain Abdul Aziz, M. Anuar and Saludin Nasir

The relationships among corporate social responsibility, corporate image and economic performance of high-tech industries in Taiwan pp. 417-429

Cheng-Ping Chang

Choosing the share bond by using qualitative dependent variable models in Turkey pp. 431-439

Selahattin Guris, Nurcan Metin and Ebru Caglayan

Examination of the effects of the relationship marketing orientation on the company performance pp. 441-450

Selin Kucukkancabas, Ayse Akyol and Berk Ataman

How variation in management perceptions affects organizational performance pp. 451-461

Hilton Barrett, Joseph Balloun and Art Weinstein

The communion bridge to Six Sigma and process capability indices pp. 463-469

K. Chen, L. Ouyang, C. Hsu and C. Wu

A discrete replacement model for a two-unit parallel system subject to failure rate interaction pp. 471-479

Min-Tsai Lai

On measuring skewness and kurtosis pp. 481-493

Dragan Đorić, Emilija Nikolić-Đorić, Vesna Jevremović and Jovan Mališić

Evaluating estimation methods for ordinal data in structural equation modeling pp. 495-507

Pui-Wa Lei

Spanish basic emotion words are consistently ordered pp. 509-517

Ana Delgado

Volume 43, issue 2, 2009

Conjunctural causation in comparative case-oriented research pp. 173-183

Jonathan Aus

Dilettantism in investigating the impact of the Internet on the wellbeing of the elderly pp. 185-196

Lucy Firth and David Mellor

A meta-validation model for assessing the score-validity of student teaching evaluations pp. 197-209

Anthony Onwuegbuzie, Larry Daniel and Kathleen Collins

Examining the ‘point of frustration’. The think-aloud method applied to online search tasks pp. 211-224

Talke Hoppmann

Random PERT: application to physical activity/sports programs pp. 225-236

Verónica Morales-Sánchez, Antonio Hernández-Mendo, Pedro Sánchez-Algarra, Ángel Blanco-Villaseñor and María-Teresa Anguera-Argilaga

The political uncertainty and stock market behavior in emerging democracy: the case of Taiwan pp. 237-248

Yi-Hsien Wang and Chin-Tsai Lin

Researching and developing practice traditions using reflective practice experiments pp. 249-263

Greg Walkerden

A typology of mixed methods research designs pp. 265-275

Nancy Leech and Anthony Onwuegbuzie

An applied stochastic model of the quality–quantity trade-off in the public health care sector pp. 277-289

Ahmet Kara

Implementing lifetime performance index for the pareto lifetime businesses of the service industries pp. 291-304

Ching-Wen Hong, Jong-Wuu Wu and Ching-Hsue Cheng

Cointegration, causality and the transmission of shocks across wheat market in Pakistan pp. 305-315

Mushtaq Klasra

A look for low season tourist profile: Antalya Region of Turkey example pp. 317-332

A. Aksu and Ana Silva

Volume 43, issue 1, 2009

Global human development: accounting for its regional disparities pp. 1-34

Robert Smith

Erroneous detection of nonuniform DIF using the Breslow-Day test in a short test pp. 35-44

María Aguerri, María Galibert, Horacio Attorresi and Pedro Prieto Marañón

Ethical considerations during human centred overt and covert research pp. 45-57

J. Deventer

Linear versus logistic regression when the dependent variable is a dichotomy pp. 59-74

Ottar Hellevik

Factor analysis of the Big Five Questionnaire using polychoric correlations in children pp. 75-85

F. Holgado-Tello, M. Carrasco-Ortiz, María Barrio-Gándara and Salvador Chacón-Moscoso

Locating the competitive relation of global logistics hub using quantitative SWOT analytical method pp. 87-107

Kuo-Liang Lee, Wen-Chih Huang and Junn-Yuan Teng

Economic design of T 2 control charts with the VSSI sampling scheme pp. 109-122

Yan-Kwang Chen

The potential of a multi-mode data collection design to reduce non response bias. The case of a survey of employers pp. 123-136

Emanuela Sala and Peter Lynn

Appraisal of lecturers for the assessment of the quality of post-graduate studies pp. 137-144

Mariusz Ligarski

Determination of a hospital management policy using conjoint analysis in the analytic network process pp. 145-154

Wen Wu, Chin Lin and Kua Peng

On intermediate utility functions pp. 155-159

Thomas Eichner

Lies, damned lies and statistics: the accuracy of survey responses pp. 161-171

Stephanie Stray