Questions about Change over Time in Cross-Cultural Organizational Research

Publication Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

8-2002

Abstract

Conceptually, the phenomena of interest in many organizational research questions are in fact about changes and processes that unfold in various ways over time. Unfortunately, longitudinal studies that explicitly assess change over time is generally lacking in organizational research and virtually absent in cross-cultural organizational research. The large majority of the literature on cross-cultural measurement in organization research is focused exclusively on cross-sectional data, addressing cross-cultural differences in measurement and constructs without examining the temporal dimension of measurement and constructs. This article explicates 9 fundamental questions about change over time and applies them to the study of changes over time in cross-cultural organizational research.

Keywords

Change assessment, change over time, Cross cultural studies, longitudinal research, measurement equivalence, measurement invariance, measures and constructs

Discipline

Industrial and Organizational Psychology | Organizational Behavior and Theory

Research Areas

Psychology

Publication

Asia Pacific Journal of Management

Volume

19

Issue

2/3

First Page

449

Last Page

457

ISSN

0217-4561

Identifier

10.1023/A:1016256122279

Publisher

Springer Verlag

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016256122279

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