Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of innovativeness, change seeking and cognitive effort on consumer responses to traditional versus virtual testing environment. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical study collects concept evaluations of five heterogeneous...

Purpose – This paper's aim is to explore the uses and limitations of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) for evaluating complex interventions, with a particular focus on sample recruitment and retention issues. Design/methodology/approach – This is an invited critique of a previous paper....

Purpose – This paper seeks to discuss reliability problems associated with questionnaires, commonly employed in library and information science. It aims to focus on the effects of “common method variance” (CMV), which is a form of bias, and ways of countering these effects....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on a study to determine the possible effects of cultural schemata on Iranian students' test‐taking processes for cloze tests. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 116 students were selected as the participants. They were divided into two...

Purpose – The increasing provision of timely financial information through web‐based technology is expected to improve the quality of communication between a company and its stakeholders. However, the information asymmetry problem still exists since almost all “web‐releases” usually...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a model‐based methodology for the repetitive testing of multiple products with limited capacity, when the testing process is imperfect. Design/methodology/approach – In a repetitive testing process, items that are classified as...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine why 360‐degree feedback, which fell out of favor for a while, is now back in vogue. Design/methodology/approach – The paper puts forward some of the weaknesses of 360‐degree feedback as it used to be practiced, and defines a five‐step process to...