ON THE VALIDITY OF SUBJECTIVE MEASURES OF COMPANY PERFORMANCE
研究比较了公司绩效的主观与客观测量方法，在三个样本中发现两者具有收敛效度、判别效度和构念效度，支持主观测量的有效性。
Subjective measures of company performance are widely used in research and typically are interpreted as equivalent to objective measures. Yet, the assumption of equivalence is open to challenge. We compared the use of both types of measure in 3 separate samples. Findings were consistent in showing that: (a) subjective and objective measures of company performance were positively associated (convergent validity); (b) those relationships were stronger than those between measures of differing aspects of performance using the same method (discriminant validity); and (c) the relationships of subjective and objective company performance measures with a range of independent variables were equivalent (construct validity).