Self-reports and CEO Locus of Control Research: A Note
质疑了基于单一来源自我报告数据的CEO控制点与企业创业关系研究的有效性，通过多源数据发现已发表的相关性因方法论问题（层级谬误和共同方法变异）而无法明确解释。
The body of knowledge in organizational and management research is based, to a large extent, on same-source self-report data. Although several scholars seriously doubt the validity of such findings, this methodology has also been used, without exception, in a specific research area focusing on the relationship between the locus of control of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and firm-level entrepreneur ship. In the present study, we try to evaluate the validity of these findings by using multiple sources (i.e., respondents) to obtain data on the independent and criterion variables. We present empirical evidence that the published correlations between the CEO locus of control and firm-level entrepreneurship cannot be interpreted unambiguously due to two, not necessarily mutually exclusive, methodological problems, that is: (1) a fallacy of the wrong level and (2) common method variance.