Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology

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Volume 55, issue 6, 2021

Mechanisms of perceived accountability in Korean NPOs: activating the dynamics of NPM-driven and confucian-driven cultures pp. 1917-1944

Min Young Kim, Hyo Joo Lee and Kyoung Ryoul Min

Big data for corporate social responsibility: blockchain use in Gioia del Colle DOP pp. 1945-1971

Massimiliano Giacalone, Vito Santarcangelo, Vincenzo Donvito, Oriana Schiavone and Emilio Massa

Exogenous shocks and citizens’ satisfaction with governmental policies: can empirical evidence from the 2008 financial crisis help us understand better the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic? pp. 1973-2000

Takis Venetoklis

How do Google searches for symptoms, news and unemployment interact during COVID-19? A Lotka–Volterra analysis of google trends data pp. 2001-2016

Chiara Sotis

Developing nexus eco-purchasing behaviour index (NEPBI) for Malaysia by using partial least square analysis pp. 2017-2039

Jegatheesan Rajadurai, Wan Noordiana Wan Hanafi, Vathana Bathmanathan, Salina Daud and Nurnazurah Azami

Impact of peer influence and government support for successful adoption of technology for vocational education: A quantitative study using PLS-SEM technique pp. 2041-2064

Sheshadri Chatterjee, Kalyan Kumar Bhattacharjee, Chia-Wen Tsai and Amit Kumar Agrawal

Cultural indicators in Abu Dhabi: theoretic framework and challenges for their building pp. 2065-2086

Elena Raevskikh, Randa Omar Haidar and Norah Alkhamis

Estimating the impact of social isolation on subjective health in Europe pp. 2087-2102

Emiliano Sironi and Amelie Nadine Wolff

The association between charitable giving and happiness: Evidence from the Chinese General Social Survey pp. 2103-2138

Xiaoting Zheng, Jiayue Chen and Yipeng Li

No magic bullet: estimating anti-immigrant sentiment and social desirability bias with the item-count technique pp. 2139-2159

S. Rinken, S. Pasadas-del-Amo, M. Rueda and B. Cobo

Metrisable assessment of the course of stream-systemic processes in vector form in industry 4.0 pp. 2161-2176

Radosław Drozd and Radosław Wolniak

Estimating persistence for irregularly spaced historical data pp. 2177-2187

Philip Hans Franses

A mixed-methods assessment of civil political culture during a democratic transition. The case of Tunisian civil society organisations pp. 2189-2218

Alexander P. Martin

Attempt to test impact values for multi-indicator systems—exemplified by gender equality pp. 2219-2235

Rainer Bruggemann and Lars Carlsen

Explaining negative descriptions of Armenians in Turkish parliamentary speeches (1960–1980) via group position theory pp. 2237-2252

Türkay Salim Nefes

Crowd counting: a behavioural economics perspective pp. 2253-2270

Peter Phillips and Gabriela Pohl

An analysis of political uncertainty and corporate investment cycles in Pakistan pp. 2271-2293

Zonaira Akbar, Malik Fahim Bashir and Yasir Tariq

Correction to: The development of delinquency during adolescence: a comparison of missing data techniques revisited pp. 2295-2296

Kristian Kleinke, Jost Reinecke and Cornelia Weins

Correction to: A probabilistic projection of beneficiaries of long‑term care insurance in Germany by severity of disability pp. 2297-2297

Patrizio Vanella, Moritz Heß and Christina B. Wilke

Volume 55, issue 5, 2021

Challenging practical features of Bitcoin by the main altcoins pp. 1541-1559

Andrew Spurr and Marcel Ausloos

Do pandemics have an asymmetric effect on tourism in Italy? pp. 1561-1579

Gizem Uzuner and Sudeshna Ghosh

Methodological insights on measurement and evaluation of compulsive buying behavior among young consumers in Poland: the case of compulsive- and non-compulsive buyers pp. 1581-1611

Piotr Tarka and Jasurbek Babaev

Mapping validity and validation in modelling for interdisciplinary research pp. 1613-1630

Guus ten Broeke and Hilde Tobi

The way of visionaries: foresight and imagination, computed pp. 1631-1660

Robert Hogenraad

Reconceptualizing the interventions of open innovation systems between the nexus of quadruple organization cultural dynamics and performance pp. 1661-1681

Muhammad Imran Qureshi, Shazia Parveen, Iqra Abdullah and Leo Dana

Not just the facts: an index for measuring the information density of political communication pp. 1683-1702

Lauri Rapeli, Sakari Nieminen and Marko Mäkelä

The potential of working hypotheses for deductive exploratory research pp. 1703-1725

Mattia Casula, Nandhini Rangarajan and Patricia Shields

Evaluating intra-project knowledge growth and its effect on co-located software team output pp. 1727-1750

Supriya Kumar Ghatak and Biswajit Mahanty

Investigation of information sharing via multiple social media platforms: a comparison of Facebook and WeChat adoption pp. 1751-1773

Muhammad Riaz and Sherani

Using a choice experiment to explore the public willingness to pay for the impacts of improving energy efficiency of an apartment pp. 1775-1793

Ju-Hee Kim, Younggew Kim and Seung-Hoon Yoo

Is internet penetration narrowing the rural–urban income inequality? A cross-regional study of China pp. 1795-1814

Leiju Qiu, Shun-Bin Zhong, Bao-Wen Sun, Yu Song and Xiao-Hua Chen

Income differentials in the police and taxation departments’ employees in Peshawar pp. 1815-1828

Sanam Khan and Faisal Jamil

Identifying price bubble periods in the Bitcoin market-based on GSADF model pp. 1829-1844

Yan Li, Zhicheng Wang, Hongchuan Wang, Meiyu Wu and Lingling Xie

Bibliometric maps and co-word analysis of the literature on international cooperation on migration pp. 1845-1869

Hanen Khaldi and Vicente Prado-Gascó

Life before COVID-19: how was the World actually performing? pp. 1871-1888

Salvatore F. Pileggi

Applying information integration theory to the study of boycott–spillover to linked regions pp. 1889-1915

Hayiel Hino and Israel D. Nebenzahl

Volume 55, issue 4, 2021

Standardising the reproduction of Schwartz’s two-dimensional value space using multi-dimensional scaling and goodness-of-fit test procedures pp. 1155-1179

Jacques de Wet, Daniela Wetzelhütter and Johann Bacher

How well can we estimate immigration trends using Google data? pp. 1181-1202

Philippe Wanner

Dependence between bitcoin and African currencies pp. 1203-1218

Saralees Nadarajah, Emmanuel Afuecheta and Stephen Chan

Embracing Bitcoin: users’ perceived security and trust pp. 1219-1237

Say Keat Ooi, Chai Aun Ooi, Jasmine A. L. Yeap and Tok Hao Goh

Analyses the effects of COVID-19 outbreak on human sexual behaviour using ordinary least-squares based multivariate logistic regression pp. 1239-1259

Chandrakanta Mahanty, Raghvendra Kumar and Brojo Kishore Mishra

The causal nexus of geopolitical risks, consumer and producer confidence indexes: evidence from selected economies pp. 1261-1273

Ferhat Pehlivanoğlu, Saffet Akdağ and Andrew Alola

Theory and the breadth-and-depth method of analysing large amounts of qualitative data: a research note pp. 1275-1280

Rosalind Edwards, Emma Davidson, Lynn Jamieson and Susie Weller

Conducting quantitative studies with the participation of political elites: best practices for designing the study and soliciting the participation of political elites pp. 1281-1317

Barbara Vis and Sjoerd Stolwijk

The ABC of systematic literature review: the basic methodological guidance for beginners pp. 1319-1346

Hayrol Azril Mohamed Shaffril, Samsul Farid Samsuddin and Asnarulkhadi Abu Samah

Comparing the efficiency of countries to assimilate and apply research investment pp. 1347-1369

Barbara S. Lancho-Barrantes, Hector G. Ceballos-Cancino and Francisco J. Cantu-Ortiz

Emerging trends and global scope of big data analytics: a scientometric analysis pp. 1371-1396

Keshav Singh Rawat and Sandeep Kumar Sood

Emergency material reserve location selection by a time-series-based evidential reasoning approach under bounded rationality pp. 1397-1417

Ran Fang and Huchang Liao

From the algorithmic and emergent mindset to the heuristic mindset of reviewing literature pp. 1419-1455

Adasa Nkrumah Kofi Frimpong, Ping Li, Millicent Amoah and Md Altab Hossin

Identifying, prioritizing and ranking of factors influencing the PhD milestones’ completion delays pp. 1457-1476

Supriya Kumar Ghatak, Balagopal G. Menon and Biswajit Mahanty

Analysis of the goal-scoring opportunities conceded in football: a study case in the Spanish La Liga pp. 1477-1496

Rubén D. Aguado-Méndez, José Antonio González-Jurado, Juan Evaristo Callejas-Jerónimo and Fernando Manuel Otero-Saborido

Performance evaluation for the outsourcing of military base management services in the Republic of Korea using SERVQUAL and IPA pp. 1497-1512

Jinho Kim, Seongyoon Lee, Jaiill Lee and Seokjung Kang

What’s in a text? Bridging the gap between quality and quantity in the digital era pp. 1513-1540

Roberto Franzosi

Volume 55, issue 3, 2021

The application of factorial surveys to study recruiters’ hiring intentions: comparing designs based on hypothetical and real vacancies pp. 775-804

Tamara Gutfleisch, Robin Samuel and Stefan Sacchi

Effects of COVID-19 in E-learning on higher education institution students: the group comparison between male and female pp. 805-826

Arfan Shahzad, Rohail Hassan, Adejare Yusuff Aremu, Arsalan Hussain and Rab Nawaz Lodhi

Sequential coding of maternal sensitivity: application of nonlinear dynamic analyses and reliability pp. 827-844

Rosa M. Trenado, M. Angeles Cerezo, Purificación Sierra-García and Gemma Pons-Salvador

Science, technology, innovation, theory and evidence: the new institutionality in Colombia pp. 845-876

Clara Pardo Martinez and Alexander Cotte Poveda

The development of delinquency during adolescence: a comparison of missing data techniques revisited pp. 877-895

Kristian Kleinke, Jost Reinecke and Cornelia Weins

An iterative method for the computation of the correlation matrix implied by a recursive path model pp. 897-915

M’barek Iaousse, Zouhair El Hadri, Amal Hmimou and Yousfi El Kettani

ICT skills measurement in social surveys: Can we trust self-reports? pp. 917-943

Marta Palczyńska and Maja Rynko

Quantities from qualities: a method for deciphering development dissonance pp. 945-968

Siddharth Singh

The impact of innovation on companies’ cross-border mergers and acquisitions: evidence from China pp. 969-991

Tianxu Jiang and Min Zhu

An investigation of the usage of capital budgeting techniques by small and medium enterprises pp. 993-1006

Lakshman Alles, Ruwan Jayathilaka, Nelum Kumari, Taraka Malalathunga, Hashini Obeyesekera and Selvaraj Sharmila

Machine learning, artificial neural networks and social research pp. 1007-1025

Giovanni Di Franco and Michele Santurro

Linguistic sleuthing for innovators pp. 1027-1045

Francesca Greco, Ken Riopelle, Francesca Grippa, Andrea Fronzetti Colladon and Julia Gluesing

Characteristics of piloting longitudinal birth cohort surveys: a systematic review pp. 1047-1069

Mirta Blažev, Toni Babarović and Pau Serracant

Understanding online equity funding ecology: a comparison of the greater Los Angeles area and Silicon Valley pp. 1071-1090

Rong Wang

Does taxation on harmful products influence population health? Evidence from Africa using the dynamic panel system GMM approach pp. 1091-1103

Mustapha Immurana, Abdul-Aziz Iddrisu and Micheal Kofi Boachie

Exploring the motives and success factors behind female entrepreneurs in India pp. 1105-1132

Muhammad Abrar ul haq, Surjit Victor and Farheen Akram

Open data governance: civic hacking movement, topics and opinions in digital space pp. 1133-1154

Mara Maretti, Vanessa Russo and Emiliano Gobbo

Volume 55, issue 2, 2021

The research of factors influencing advanced medical robot use pp. 385-393

Chin-Liang Hung

Measuring inequality in income distribution between men and women: what causes gender inequality in Europe? pp. 395-418

Ignacio Amate-Fortes, Almudena Guarnido-Rueda, Diego Martínez-Navarro and Francisco J. Oliver-Márquez

A social network analysis of international tourism flow pp. 419-439

Hwayoon Seok, George A. Barnett and Yoonjae Nam

The interplay between knowledge-based competitiveness, people’s good health and well-being: new empirical evidence from Central and Eastern European countries pp. 441-466

Gratiela Georgiana Noja, Alexandru Buglea, Ion Lala-Popa and Cecilia Nicoleta Jurcut

A dependence measure flow tree through Monte Carlo simulations pp. 467-496

Emanuela Raffinetti and Pier Alda Ferrari

Have your cake and eat it too: PLSe2 = ML + PLS pp. 497-541

Majid Ghasemy, Hazri Jamil and James E. Gaskin

Measuring precarious employment in the European Working Conditions Survey: psychometric properties and construct validity in Spain pp. 543-562

Eva Padrosa, Francesc Belvis, Joan Benach and Mireia Julià

Footsteps in the sand: studying refugee paths since 2005 through a network analysis of 205 territories pp. 563-600

Paulo Mourão

Distinctive author ranking using DEA indexing pp. 601-620

Avick Kumar Dey, Pijush Kanti Dutta Pramanik, Prasenjit Choudhury and Goutam Bandopadhyay

Examining achievement goals in exercisers: adaptation and validation of the goal orientations in exercise measure (GOEM) pp. 621-636

Luis Cid, Filipe Rodrigues, Diogo S. Teixeira, Verónica Morales-Sánchez, Rita Macedo and Diogo Monteiro

Visualizing the evolution and landscape of socio-economic impact research pp. 637-659

Nauman Majeed and Sulaiman Ainin

Modern urbanization and industrial upgrading in China: evidence from panel data pp. 661-681

Fang Wang, Ming-Hua Tian and Zhong-Hua Yin

Optimizing the spatial structure of urban agglomeration: based on social network analysis pp. 683-705

Xinhua Zhu, Qianli Wang, Peifeng Zhang, Yunjiang Yu and Lingling Xie

Imputation methods for estimating public R&D funding: evidence from longitudinal data pp. 707-729

Antonio Zinilli

Searching for qualitatively driven mixed methods research: a citation analysis pp. 731-740

David L. Morgan and Kim Hoffman

Multidimensional material deprivation in Poland: a focus on changes in 2015–2017 pp. 741-763

Hanna Dudek and Wiesław Szczesny

Crisis management of municipality performance on citizen satisfaction with urban services by structural equation modeling pp. 765-773

Vojo Lakovic

Volume 55, issue 1, 2021

Temporary teams: current research focus and future directions pp. 1-18

Meng Lv and Shaohong Feng

Dynamics and tipping point of issue attention in newspapers: quantitative and qualitative content analysis at sentence level in a longitudinal study using supervised machine learning and big data pp. 19-37

A. E. Opperhuizen and K. Schouten

Using emojis in mobile web surveys for Millennials? A study in Spain and Mexico pp. 39-61

Oriol J. Bosch and Melanie Revilla

Is risk attitude toward health outcomes context driven? pp. 63-77

Matteo Ruggeri and Carlo Drago

A new approach to assess the normalization of differential rates of protest participation pp. 79-102

Clare Saunders and Natalie Shlomo

Bibliometric monitoring of research performance in ICT-based disaster management literature pp. 103-132

Sahil and Sandeep Kumar Sood

Impact of prosocial motivation on organizational citizenship behavior: the mediating role of ethical leadership and leader–member exchange pp. 133-150

Muhammad Arshad, Ghulam Abid and Francoise Venezia Contreras Torres

Changes over time in the spatial structure of fertility rates as a dynamic indicator of urban transformations pp. 151-172

Gianluca Egidi and Luca Salvati

Listening to the patient voice: using a sentic computing model to evaluate physicians’ healthcare service quality for strategic planning in hospitals pp. 173-201

Adnan Muhammad Shah, Xiangbin Yan, Samia Tariq and Salim Khan

Psychometric properties of the Valencia Scale of Attitudes and Beliefs Towards Hypnosis (therapist version) (VSABTH-T) online version pp. 203-219

M. Auxiliadora Franquelo, Inés Tomás, Antonio Capafons and Antonio Hernández-Mendo

A semantic network approach to measuring sentiment pp. 221-255

James A. Danowski, Bei Yan and Ken Riopelle

Film and ideology: narrative analysis of the student movement in Iranian Cinema (2001–2004) pp. 257-273

Ehsan Aqababaee, Ali Ghanbari Barzian, Arash Hasanpour and Katharina Müller

A science mapping analysis of ‘marginality, stigmatization and social cohesion’ in WoS (1963–2019) pp. 275-293

Isotta Mac Fadden, Monica Santana, Esteban Vázquez-Cano and Eloy López-Meneses

Causal inference in collaboration networks using propensity score methods pp. 295-313

Michael Windzio

Developing grey prediction with Fourier series using genetic algorithms for tourism demand forecasting pp. 315-331

Yi-Chung Hu

Is it an institution, digital or social inclusion that matters for inclusive growth? A panel data analysis pp. 333-355

Aribah Aslam, Amjad Naveed and Ghulam Shabbir

Dynamics of price level changes in the Visegrad group: comparative study pp. 357-384

Jacek Białek and Elżbieta Roszko-Wójtowicz