Content Validity of Measures of Abstract Constructs in Management and Organizational Research
论证构念效度即内容效度，指出管理与组织研究中许多抽象构念的测量因内容效度不足或统计净化而失真，导致错误结论，并以出口协调构念的两个新测量为例说明问题及修正方法。
It is argued that construct validity is content validity and that prior content validity is necessary for predictive validity. Too many measures of abstract (multicomponential) constructs in management and organizational research exhibit poor content validity or else lose much of their content validity following unnecessary statistical ‘purification’ to select items. The measures produce misleading empirical results and can lead to erroneous acceptance or rejection of hypotheses or entire theories. Both problems – inadequate content validation and unnecessary statistical purification – are illustrated here for two new measures of the construct of ‘export coordination’ ( Diamantopoulos and Siguaw , British Journal of Management , 2006, 17 (4), pp. 263–282). Corrections according to Rossiter's C‐OAR‐SE procedure for scale development are specified.