Scale Development in Tourism Research: Advocating for a New Paradigm

Florian Kock; Alexander Josiassen; A. George Assaf

doi:10.1177/0047287518800391

Scale Development in Tourism Research: Advocating for a New Paradigm

Florian Kock
, Alexander Josiassen
, A. George Assaf

Department of Marketing

University of Massachusetts

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Abstract

The authors advocate for a new paradigm in scale development practices to increase the impact of tourism research.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Travel Research
Volume	58
Issue number	7
Pages (from-to)	1227-1229
Number of pages	3
ISSN	0047-2875
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0047287518800391
Publication status	Published - Sept 2019

Bibliographical note

Published online: 29. September 2018

Keywords

Scale development
Nomological validity
Predictive validity
Model development

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