Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology

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Volume 49, issue 6, 2015

The impact of individual attributes on knowledge diffusion in web forums pp. 2221-2236

Bing Wu, Shan Jiang and Hsinchun Chen

Towards a method for synthesizing diverse evidence using hypotheses as common language pp. 2237-2249

F. Wesel, H. Boeije and E. Alisic

The Siena Micro-Simulation Model (SM2): a contribution for informality studies in Brazil pp. 2251-2268

Ana Kreter, Gianni Betti, Renata Del-Vecchio and Jefferson Staduto

An interval fuzzy land-use allocation model (IFLAM) for Beijing in association with environmental and ecological consideration under uncertainty pp. 2269-2290

Min Zhou, Shukui Tan, Lizao Tao, Xiangbo Zhu and Ghulam Akhmat

An iterative expert survey approach for estimating parties’ policy positions pp. 2291-2306

Kostas Gemenis

Statistical assessment of regional wealth inequalities: the Italian case pp. 2307-2323

Roy Cerqueti and Marcel Ausloos

The lack of probability culture in Italy. Toward an international comparative research program pp. 2325-2330

Pierluigi Contucci and Candia Riga

Environmental sustainability and pressure groups pp. 2331-2344

Taner Güney

Voters’ preference diversity, concepts of agreement and Condorcet’s paradox pp. 2345-2368

William Gehrlein, Dominique Lepelley and Issofa Moyouwou

Theory of fuzzy non homogeneous Markov systems with fuzzy states pp. 2369-2385

Maria Symeonaki

Multiple equilibria in a discrete time growth model with corruption in public procurement pp. 2387-2410

Serena Brianzoni, Raffaella Coppier and Elisabetta Michetti

Parenting styles and academic achievement of young adolescents: A systematic literature review pp. 2411-2433

Hamid Masud, Ramayah Thurasamy and Muhammad Ahmad

An architecture of agent-based multi-layer interactive e-learning and e-testing platform pp. 2435-2458

Muhammad Arif, Manzoor Illahi, Ahmad Karim, Shahaboddin Shamshirband, Khubaib Alam, Shahid Farid, Salman Iqbal, Zolkepli Buang and Valentina Balas

Organizational decision-maker bias supports merger wave formation: demonstration with logical formalization pp. 2459-2480

Gábor Péli and Hans Schenk

Through the magnifying glass: an analysis of regional innovation models based on co-word and meta-synthesis methods pp. 2481-2505

Reza Naghizadeh, Shaban Elahi, Manoochehr Manteghi, Sepehr Ghazinoory and Liana Ranga

Exploring stakeholder interactions through the lens of complexity theory: lessons from the sugar industry pp. 2507-2525

Cecile Gerwel Proches and Shamim Bodhanya

Mining critical least association rules from students suffering study anxiety datasets pp. 2527-2547

Tutut Herawan, Haruna Chiroma, Prima Vitasari, Zailani Abdullah, Maizatul Ismail and Mohd Othman

Does the Fisher hypothesis hold for the G7 countries? Evidence from ADL threshold cointegration test pp. 2549-2557

Burak Güriş and Yaşar Yaşgül

Determinants of normative processes: comparison of two empirical methods of specification pp. 2559-2576

David Heise

Education and BMI: a genetic informed analysis pp. 2577-2593

Sara Della Bella and Mario Lucchini

Modelling the occupational assimilation of immigrants by ancestry, age group and generational differences in Australia: a random effects approach to a large table of counts pp. 2595-2615

Kelvyn Jones, Dewi Owen, Ron Johnston, James Forrest and David Manley

Qualitative variations: the sources of divergent qualitative methodological approaches pp. 2617-2632

Kendra Koivu and Erin Damman

Artificial neural networks and fuzzy time series forecasting: an application to air quality pp. 2633-2647

Nur Rahman, Muhammad Lee, Suhartono and Mohd Latif

Soldiers and priests in business management pp. 2649-2654

Baruch Mevorach

Volume 49, issue 5, 2015

Teacher evaluation: the role of gender pp. 1779-1789

Fatima Hameed, Amjad Ali, Amina Hameed, Zohra Saleem and Yasir Javed

Evaluating the criteria of social media network users pp. 1791-1802

Chen-Yu Lin and Enmi Chung

Agglomeration externalities and technical efficiency in Italian regions pp. 1803-1822

Massimiliano Agovino and Agnese Rapposelli

Comparing linear probability model coefficients across groups pp. 1823-1834

Anders Holm, Mette Ejrnæs and Kristian Karlson

A fuzzy TOPSIS framework for selecting fragile states for support facility pp. 1835-1855

Eric Afful-Dadzie, Stephen Nabareseh, Anthony Afful-Dadzie and Zuzana Oplatková

Erratum to: A fuzzy TOPSIS framework for selecting fragile states for support facility pp. 1857-1857

Eric Afful-Dadzie, Stephen Nabareseh, Anthony Afful-Dadzie and Zuzana Oplatková

Methods for quantifying ordinal variables: a comparative study pp. 1859-1872

Sara Casacci and Adriano Pareto

Shifting of the ontological-epistemological balance in contemporary research agendas: a critique pp. 1873-1882

Deepak Gopinath

A discourse analysis of population policies in the context of politics in Iran pp. 1883-1895

Karim Mahmoodi, Ahmad Mohammadpur and Mehdi Rezaei

Effect of a first-time interviewer on cognitive interview quality pp. 1897-1918

Anja Mohorko and Valentina Hlebec

Value-based performance excellence model for higher education institutions pp. 1919-1944

Mohd Ab Hamid

Influences of knowledge spillover and utilization on the NIS performance: a multi-stage efficiency perspective pp. 1945-1967

Chia-Chin Chang

War on terror: Do military measures matter? Empirical analysis of post 9/11 period in Pakistan pp. 1969-1984

Muhammad Nasir and Muhammad Shahbaz

Analysis of the social capital indicators by using DEMATEL approach: the case of Islamic Azad University pp. 1985-1995

Davood Kiakojuri, Shahaboddin Shamshirband, Nor Anuar and Johari Abdullah

Development of the spatial ability self-report scale (SASRS): reliability and validity studies pp. 1997-2014

Melih Turgut

A regime switching Ohlson model pp. 2015-2035

Arturo Leccadito and Stefania Veltri

Graph theoretic methods for the analysis of data in developing systems pp. 2037-2060

Kris Green and Bernard Ricca

Heterogeneous classifiers fusion for dynamic breast cancer diagnosis using weighted vote based ensemble pp. 2061-2076

Saba Bashir, Usman Qamar and Farhan Khan

A quality-based approach to estimating quantitative elasticities for differentiated products: an application to retail milk demand pp. 2077-2096

Osman Gulseven and Michael Wohlgenant

The sustainability of tourism income on economic growth: does education matter? pp. 2097-2106

Alper Aslan

The way forward to strengthen human nature entente: an educated human presence at all the interfaces of this relationship pp. 2107-2121

Javeed Hussain, Ghulam Akhmat, Shukui Tan and Zhu Xiangbo

What organizational culture types enable and retard open innovation? pp. 2123-2144

M. Naqshbandi, Sharan Kaur and Pin Ma

How survey administration can affect response in electronic surveys pp. 2145-2154

Michael Magro, Victor Prybutok and Sherry Ryan

Does education influence visuo-spatial and verbal immediate serial recall in healthy older adults? pp. 2155-2167

Maria Fastame, Paul Hitchcott and Maria Penna

Maximum Likelihood Difference Scaling versus Ordinal Difference Scaling of emotion intensity: a comparison pp. 2169-2185

Martin Junge and Rainer Reisenzein

Heuristics in digital communication media: theoretical explications and empirical observations pp. 2187-2201

Ki Kim

On content analysis of images of mass protests: a case of data triangulation pp. 2203-2220

Anton Oleinik

Volume 49, issue 4, 2015

Triple helix approaches and social network perspectives pp. 1323-1324

Yeon-Ok Lee and Han Park

Measuring the dynamics of an innovation system using patent data: a case study of South Korea, 2001–2010 pp. 1325-1343

Pieter Stek and Marina Geenhuizen

Globalization of cultural products: a webometric analysis of Kpop in Spanish-speaking countries pp. 1345-1360

Xanat Vargas Meza and Han Park

Twitter hashtags for health: applying network and content analyses to understand the health knowledge sharing in a Twitter-based community of practice pp. 1361-1380

Weiai Xu, I-Hsuan Chiu, Yixin Chen and Tanuka Mukherjee

Quantifying the Triple Helix relationship in scientific research: statistical analyses on the dividing pattern between developed and developing countries pp. 1381-1396

Sujin Choi, Joshua Yang and Han Park

Exploring persuasive message strategy for international aid campaigns: potential donors’ inter-attitudinal structure using Galileo model pp. 1397-1415

Yon Lim

Unspeaking on Facebook? Testing network effects on self-censorship of political expressions in social network sites pp. 1417-1435

K. Kwon, Shin-Il Moon and Michael Stefanone

A strategic management approach for Korean public research institutes based on bibliometric investigation pp. 1437-1464

Hyeonchae Yang and Woo-Sung Jung

Linking emergency management networks to disaster resilience: bonding and bridging strategy in hierarchical or horizontal collaboration networks pp. 1465-1483

Kyujin Jung and Minsun Song

Energy policy participation through networks transcending cleavage: an analysis of Japanese and German renewable energy promotion policies pp. 1485-1512

Manuela Hartwig, Yohei Kobashi, Sae Okura and Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki

Factors affecting citation networks in science and technology: focused on non-quality factors pp. 1513-1530

Minho So, Jiyoung Kim, Sangki Choi and Han Park

Facebook discontinuance: discontinuance as a temporal settlement of the constant interplay between disturbance and coping pp. 1531-1548

In Cho

Qualitative and quantitative methods in complex socio-economic systems pp. 1549-1551

Marco Fattore and Rosanna Grassi

Analysis of the nonlinear relationship between commodity prices in the last two decades pp. 1553-1558

Lucas Catalano and Alejandra Figliola

Diffusion of innovations in dense and sparse networks pp. 1559-1571

Mario Eboli

Mutual funds relationships and performance analysis pp. 1573-1584

Anna D’Arcangelis and Giulia Rotundo

A multiple network approach to corporate governance pp. 1585-1595

Fausto Bonacina, Marco D’Errico, Enrico Moretto, Silvana Stefani, Anna Torriero and Giovanni Zambruno

Structural and non-structural temporal evolution of socio-economic real networks pp. 1597-1608

Rosanna Grassi, Marco Fattore and Alberto Arcagni

High-order PLS path model with qualitative external information pp. 1609-1620

Enrico Ciavolino, Maurizio Carpita and Mariangela Nitti

Determining critical success factors related to the effect of supply chain integration and competition capabilities on business performance pp. 1621-1632

Ali Özdemir, Biagio Simonetti and Roberto Jannelli

Incomparable: what now II? Absorption of incomparabilities by a cluster method pp. 1633-1645

Rainer Bruggemann and Lars Carlsen

A multi-criteria decision making method for sustainable development of Naples port city-area pp. 1647-1659

Bice Cavallo, Livia D’Apuzzo and Massimo Squillante

Modelling a sustainable requalification problem by analytic hierarchy process pp. 1661-1677

Virginia Racioppi, Gabriella Marcarelli and Massimo Squillante

Creation of models for calculation of coefficients of terrain passability pp. 1679-1691

Alois Hofmann, Šárka Hošková-Mayerová, Václav Talhofer and Vladimír Kovařík

A review of aggregation techniques for agent-based models: understanding the presence of long-term memory pp. 1693-1717

Roy Cerqueti and Giulia Rotundo

An information-theoretic approach for detecting communities in networks pp. 1719-1733

Yongli Li, Chong Wu and Zizheng Wang

Predicting correctness of eyewitness statements using the semantic evaluation method (SEM) pp. 1735-1745

Farhan Sarwar, Sverker Sikström, Carl Allwood and Åse Innes-Ker

Hybrid structures: innovative governance, judicial and sociological approaches pp. 1747-1760

Armando Aliu, Bekir Parlak and Dorian Aliu

Homosexuality, homophobia and support for Lesbians and Gay human rights pp. 1761-1778

Rosalia Condorelli

Volume 49, issue 3, 2015

Introduction to the special section pp. 879-880

Stefania Mignani and Carla Rampichini

Simulation studies of structural equation models with covariates in a redundancy analysis framework pp. 881-890

Pietro Lovaglio and Roberto Boselli

Comparing maximum likelihood and PLS estimates for structural equation modeling with formative blocks pp. 891-902

Pasquale Dolce and Natale Lauro

Treating ordinal data: a comparison between rating scale and structural equation models pp. 903-915

Silvia Golia and Anna Simonetto

The approach of power priors for ability estimation in IRT models pp. 917-926

Mariagiulia Matteucci and Bernard Veldkamp

A classification of university courses based on students’ satisfaction: an application of a two-level mixture item response model pp. 927-940

Silvia Bacci and Michela Gnaldi

A new estimator of Zumbo’s Ordinal Alpha: a copula approach pp. 941-953

Andrea Bonanomi, Gabriele Cantaluppi, Marta Nai Ruscone and Silvia Osmetti

The GME estimator for the regression model with a composite indicator as explanatory variable pp. 955-965

Enrico Ciavolino and Maurizio Carpita

Specification of random effects in multilevel models: a review pp. 967-976

Leonardo Grilli and Carla Rampichini

Detecting latent components in ordinal data with overdispersion by means of a mixture distribution pp. 977-987

Maria Iannario

Developing a composite index by using spatial latent modelling based on information theoretic estimation pp. 989-997

Rosa Bernardini Papalia and Enrico Ciavolino

A hedonic price analysis for the Italian wine in the domestic market pp. 999-1012

Eugenio Brentari, Rosella Levaggi and Paola Zuccolotto

A micro approach to cognitive skills’ growth in a university context pp. 1013-1022

Anna Simonetto and Emma Zavarrone

Knowledge map of creativity research based on keywords network and co-word analysis, 1992–2011 pp. 1023-1038

Wei Zhang, Qingpu Zhang, Bo Yu and Limei Zhao

A framework for evaluating relationship among HRM practices, project success and organizational benefit pp. 1039-1061

Li-Ren Yang, Jieh-Haur Chen, Kun-Shan Wu, Di-Man Huang and Cheng-Hao Cheng

Institutional network structure of corporate stakeholders regarding global corporate social responsibility issues pp. 1063-1080

Yoonjae Nam

Quantitative quality control from qualitative data: control charts with latent semantic analysis pp. 1081-1099

Triss Ashton, Nicholas Evangelopoulos and Victor Prybutok

Nexus between tourism earnings and economic growth: a study of Malaysia pp. 1101-1120

Ronald Kumar, Nanthakumar Loganathan, Arvind Patel and Radika Kumar

The relationship between economic and health indicators in Rural Pakistan pp. 1121-1134

Khadija Shams

Coding, sorting and sifting of qualitative data analysis: debates and discussion pp. 1135-1143

Muhammad Chowdhury

Assessing variation: a unifying approach for all scales of measurement pp. 1145-1167

Tamar Gadrich, Emil Bashkansky and Ričardas Zitikis

Green shared vision and green creativity: the mediation roles of green mindfulness and green self-efficacy pp. 1169-1184

Yu-Shan Chen, Ching-Hsun Chang, Shu-Ling Yeh and Hsin-I Cheng

A new Shewhart control chart for monitoring process mean based on partially ordered judgment subset sampling pp. 1185-1202

Abdul Haq and Amer Al-Omari

An examination of regionality in a configuration of smallest space analysis using Loevinger’s homogeneity coefficient pp. 1203-1218

Takayuki Miyadera

Comparison of the quality estimates in a mixed-mode and a unimode design: an experiment from the European Social Survey pp. 1219-1238

Melanie Revilla

A generalized approach to randomised response for quantitative variables pp. 1239-1256

Antonio Arcos, María del Rueda and Sarjinder Singh

What factors influence national image in disaster reports? Evidence from China pp. 1257-1265

Ke Xue, Yuanbing Deng and Shuyao Wang

Assessment of the cross-national validity of an End-anchored 9-point hedonic product liking scale pp. 1267-1286

Alain Beuckelaer, Machiel Zeeman and Hans Trijp

A portrait of JASA: the History of Statistics through analysis of keyword counts in an early scientific journal pp. 1287-1304

Matilde Trevisani and Arjuna Tuzzi

Top Management Teams’ demographic characteristics and their influence on strategic change pp. 1305-1322

M. Díaz-Fernández, M. González-Rodríguez and Biagio Simonetti

Volume 49, issue 1, 2015

Major differences: modeling profiles of community college persisters in career clusters pp. 1-20

Grant Morgan, Mark D’Amico and Kari Hodge

A statistical analysis of Iraq body counts pp. 21-37

Saralees Nadarajah

Modelling social inequalities in health in contemporary Switzerland pp. 39-50

Della Sara and Lucchini Mario

Implementation of TQM on higher education in Pakistan (short communication) pp. 51-56

Sajjad Baig, Muhammad Abrar, Asif Ali and Mudassar Ahmad

Alternative exploration of EKC for $$\hbox {CO}_{2}$$ CO 2 emissions: inclusion of meta-technical ratio in quantile regression model pp. 57-73

Pei-Ing Wu, Je-Liang Liou and Hung-Yi Chang

But not both: the exclusive disjunction in qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) pp. 75-92

Ursula Hackett

Empirical investigation of mobbing, stress and employees’ behavior at work place: quantitatively refining a qualitative model pp. 93-113

Muhammad Qureshi, Mehwish Iftikhar, Saquib Janjua, Khalid Zaman, Uzma Raja and Yasir Javed

Object-oriented Bayesian networks for complex quality management problems pp. 115-133

Flaminia Musella and Paola Vicard

Application of a new DEMATEL to explore key factors of China’s corporate social responsibility: evidence from accounting experts pp. 135-154

Fu Chen and Chi Der-Jang

Research quality evaluation: comparing citation counts considering bibliometric database errors pp. 155-165

Fiorenzo Franceschini, Domenico Maisano and Luca Mastrogiacomo

Causality between research output and economic growth in BRICS pp. 167-176

Roula Inglesi-Lotz, Tsangyao Chang and Rangan Gupta

Measuring employee perception on the effects of cultural diversity at work: development of the Benefits and Threats of Diversity Scale pp. 177-201

Joep Hofhuis, Karen Zee and Sabine Otten

How and why: complementary analyses of social network structures and cultural values: improving flood response networks in Queensland, Australia pp. 203-220

Elizabeth Malone and Susan Kinnear

The correlation between employee information literacy and employee creativity pp. 221-234

Cheng-Ping Chang and Pei-Chun Hsu

The effects of trade liberalization on environmental degradation pp. 235-253

Shu-Chen Chang

Bayesian informative priors with Yang and Land’s hierarchical age–period–cohort model pp. 255-266

Andrew Bell and Kelvyn Jones

Bayesian informative priors with Yang and Land’s hierarchical age–period–cohort model pp. 255-266

Andrew Bell and Kelvyn Jones

Quality versus quantity in health care and educational reforms: combating poverty pp. 267-293

Nazeem ud Din, Khalid Zaman, Shagufta Ashraf, Faiza Sajjad, Sundas Saleem and Uzma Raja

Combining qualitative and quantitative approaches for measuring underground economy of Pakistan pp. 295-317

Misbah Kiani, Adeel Ahmed and Khalid Zaman

Children’s verbal, interactive and cognitive skills and implications for interviews pp. 319-338

Susanne Vogl

The process of basic training, applied training, maintaining the performance of an observer pp. 339-347

José Losada and Rumen Manolov

The quality of work in public universities with no-parametric statistical models pp. 349-363

Benedetto Torrisi

Do the dynamics of financial development spur economic growth in Nigeria’s contemporal growth struggle? A fact beyond the figures pp. 365-384

Abdulkadir Rafindadi and Zarinah Yusof

Visual conjoint analysis (VCA): a topology of preferences in multi-attribute decision making pp. 385-405

Peter Sarlin, Shahrokh Nikou, József Mezei and Harry Bouwman

Who will not deliberate? Attrition in a multi-stage citizen deliberation experiment pp. 407-422

Maija Karjalainen and Lauri Rapeli

Analysis of the medical demands of elderly dementia patients considering the caregiver cost of medical accompaniment: an application of the travel cost method and altruistic utility function pp. 423-439

Shou-Lin Yang and Chiung-Ying Lee