Measurement is a fundamental issue in management research. However, traditional scale development methods have the drawback of mixing researchers' bias with the scale design. Based on Ding et al.'s (2007) exploratory work, a new way to develop semantic differential measurement scales is proposed...

The study is related to the basic service quality dimensions in a tourist destination. It attempts to propose a set of dimensions of destination service quality and a quality measurement scale which can be used to measure the service quality in a tourist destination. This research study has...

Psychometric instruments are widely used in accounting education research (Herring et al., Issues in Accounting Education, 4(1), 48-57, 1989; Benke and Street, Accounting Education: an international journal, 1(1), 33-45, 1992). Problems with the reliability of scores produced by such instruments...

It is demonstrated that traditional exploratory factor analytic methods, when applied to correlation matrices, cannot be used to estimate unattenuated factor loadings. However, these values can be accurately estimated when the disattenuated correlation matrix, or the covariance matrix, is used...